Thanks to sloppy reporting, fear-mongering, conflicts of interest, and algorithmic decisions, Zika – a once-upon-a-time unpopular and relatively benign virus – has quickly become a rising star of menace and malformations.
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Surely by now you have seen the videos of cats reacting to cucumbers. It’s a phenomenon that went viral during summer of 2015. Hundreds of cat owners tried it out for themselves and uploaded their results to the internet.
Remotely sensed images can be valuable information sources for the public, such as journalists and their readership. High-resolution imagery of places in the news have been used extensively to bring world events to the doorsteps of the public.
Rumors were flying through the blogosphere this winter: physicists at the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) may finally have directly detected gravitational waves
“In the future, intelligence services might use the [Internet of Things] for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials,”
An orbital articulation is a different way of approaching verbal expression. Instead of spelunking the mind for words, one focuses on the purpose, or agenda, in a non-locational capacity in order to find the expression.
Today, we’re capable of editing genetic material in plants, and growing entirely new kinds of food. But, more than that, we’re using these genetic editing techniques to better understand human disease.
Biomedical research has discovered the value of humanizing rodents and using genetics to better predict the after-effects of many drugs and procedures.
Every individual speaks at a different pace. The pace of the individual’s speech is highly idiosyncratic, allowing for only superficial similarities to others, at best.
The European Commission on Tuesday touted a new deal that will continue to allow tech companies to share user data overseas
The more that individuals wake up to realize this innate intelligence of their inner-self, the more they begin to experience how interconnected we all are.
Our galactic neighbor Andromeda almost certainly expired a few billion years ago, but only recently started showing outward signs of its demise.
What Whitley Strieber is to the aliens, Ray Kurzweil is to the Singularity: probably the leading spokes-prophet of his time.
The Planet has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles).
Finding earth-like planets is one of the most exciting prospects for the next generation of telescopes, and could eventually lead to discovering extraterrestrial signatures of life.
Due to our longstanding collaborative partnership with Albert Nerenberg, the gang at disinformation are truly into boredom (the topic of Albert’s most recent film). Now boredom research goes all respectable as it’s the…
Early in his career, Hawking described black holes and claimed they break all physical laws. Since then they have been ‘found’ at the centre of galaxies. Now leading cosmologists, Hawking amongst them,…
A coalition of cyber activists and advocacy groups from 42 countries on Monday released a letter defending encryption and calling on governments to end efforts at undermining such digital privacy tools. “Encryption tools,…
The answer is a resounding YES! Departments all over the country should be paying attention because this is the future and it’s ready to use right now.
The theory that Google is becoming or enacting SkyNet has been around since at least 2009. SkyNet for those of you that don’t know, is a fictional, self-aware artificial intelligence that controls…
People across India are crying foul at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s scheme to bring internet “Free Basics” to the South Asian country, and the multi-billionaire is not happy about it. In an…
Originally posted at Nature.com Abstract Studies of animal behavior consistently demonstrate that the social environment impacts cooperation, yet the effect of social dynamics has been largely excluded from studies of human cooperation. Here,…
Moire patterns. The bane of any digital artists existence. A moire is a essentially an interference pattern. A phenomenon produced when similar patterns are overlaid but slightly offset. Tadashi Tokieda, the director of studies…
Thousands of people are traveling to Stonehenge on Tuesday December 22 to celebrate the Winter Solstice. The annual event that marks the shortest day of the year for some. Because Earth doesn’t…
It could be true. First, consider this quote from Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and originator of Quantum theory, Max Planck. A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making…