Bildung… These Technicolor Sea Slugs Use Other Creatures as Bait to Catch Their Dinner 17 Nov 201716 Nov 2017 We’ve always known that nudibranchs eat hydroids, but upon closer inspection, scientists have found they’re getting more than they pay for. By Kaleigh Rogers | MOTHERBOARD Trevor Willis couldn't stop…
Gesellschaft… Astronomers Are ‚Racing Against Time‘ as Humanity Clogs the Air With Radio Signals 18 Okt 201717 Okt 2017 Interference is playing havoc with radio telescopes. By Jacob Dubé | MOTHERBOARD In a remote valley in the British Columbia interior, a massive telescope called the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping…
Fortschritt… Scientists Have Found Thousands of New Microbial Communities That Live in ‚Healthy‘ People 22 Sept 201721 Sept 2017 They incidentally found 54 bacterial species—as well as fungi and viruses—we didn't know lived inside us. By Caroline Haskins | MOTHERBOARD Harvard researchers just discovered not only 54 bacterial species…
IT… Nearly Half of the Most Popular Websites Use the Same Software to Track You Around the Internet 11 Jul 201710 Jul 2017 Third-party tracking software is increasingly is controlled by only a handful of companies. By Louise Matsakis | MOTHERBOARD When you surf around on the internet, you're not the only one…
Ökonomie… Scientists Are Debating Whether Animals Have a Right to Privacy 6 Jun 20175 Jun 2017 A growing number of scientists are deliberately concealing tracking data to protect their location. By Sarah Hewitt | MOTHERBOARD The psychedelic rock gecko lives among the rocks on a tiny…
Esoterik… That Time the CIA Investigated a Magician to See if Magic Was Real 11 Mai 201710 Mai 2017 A video with illusionist Uri Geller spawned dozens of pages of follow-up reports in the CIA about whether magic was real, and if so, how to harness it for espionage.…
Fortschritt… These Tiny Jelly Robots Can Precisely Deliver Medicine in the Body 6 Jan 20175 Jan 2017 If you’ve ever seen anybody endure chemotherapy, you know that it can be a grueling process, to say the least. But new research on tiny, 3D-printed, jelly-like robots could provide…
Bildung… The Top 10 Scientific Discoveries that Renewed Our Faith in Humanity This Year 1 Jan 201731 Dez 2016 On each of the three NASA Mars rovers, there’s a tiny inscription written on the sun dial. It details the mission and what us mere Earthlings hoped to achieve by…
Gesellschaft… Denying Women Access to Abortion Has Negative Psychological Effects, Study Finds 15 Dez 201614 Dez 2016 If a woman makes the choice to have an abortion, and is told that she can’t—she’s past the clinic’s cutoff gestational date—it seems intuitive that that would be a stressful…
Ökonomie… Why We Need AI to Study America’s Gun Violence Epidemic 13 Okt 201612 Okt 2016 Shootings are an epidemic in the US, but federal funding for research into gun violence has been in a deep freeze since 1996, thanks in part to the NRA-backed Dickey…
Ökonomie… As Elephant Populations Drop, We Learn Even Their Footsteps Serve a Purpose 2 Sept 20161 Sept 2016 A slate of new studies this week reveal two realities about elephants: they’re great at protecting tiny critters in their environment, and humans are terrible at protecting elephants. By Kaleigh…
Bildung… From Now On You’ll Be Able to Access NASA Research for Free 18 Aug 201617 Aug 2016 Fancy some super nerdy bedtime reading? NASA has announced that it will now provide public access to all journal articles on research funded by the agency. By Victoria Turk |…
Ökonomie… We Can Feed More People on an Omnivore Diet than a Vegan One, Study Shows 26 Jul 201625 Jul 2016 Vegans love to extol the benefits of their diet, and from environmental impact to animal welfare, there are many. But when it comes to helping feed our expanding global population…
Geschichte… Why Eradicating Earth’s Mosquitoes To Fight Disease Is Probably a Bad Idea 2 Feb 20161 Feb 2016 The Zika virus has been spreading across dozens of major countries, blazing a trail of tragedies and fear. On Saturday, officials with the World Health Organization announced that they feared…
Bildung… Scientists Have Created a Self-Contained Laser in a Cell 28 Jul 201527 Jul 2015 Modern medicine is overflowing with futuristic concepts, but even so, the notion of embedding lasers into living cells is a whole new level of mind-boggling. But cellular microlasers are very…
Bildung… New Horizons Is Finally Close Enough to Confirm That Pluto Is Red 7 Jul 20156 Jul 2015 In the 85 years that we’ve known about Pluto, it’s never been more than a blurry dot—even through our most powerful Earth-orbiting telescopes. But thanks to NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft,…
Fortschritt… This New Bionic Leg Makes Stairs and Slopes No Obstacle 10 Jun 20159 Jun 2015 Sculptor Terry Karpowicz was 27 when a motor accident resulted in the loss of his right leg. For years since, Karpowicz has been using computerised C-Leg prosthetic. But now, he's…
Bildung… This New Dinosaur Is Like Triceratops with a Massive Kickass Crown 5 Jun 20154 Jun 2015 Paleontologists based out of Alberta’s Royal Tyrrell Museum have discovered the remains of a bizarre new genus of horned dinosaur, similar to the iconic herbivore Triceratops. Dubbed Regaliceratops peterhewsi on…
Ökonomie… Surprise: BP’s Record-Breaking Oil Spill Decimated Dolphins 22 Mai 201521 Mai 2015 Dolphins have been dying off at unprecedented rates in the Gulf of Mexico over the last five years, and a new study helps confirm what researchers suspected: the 2010 Deepwater…
Ökonomie… These Artificial Muscles Are Made of Onion Cells 6 Mai 20155 Mai 2015 Scientists have found that artificial muscles built from onions, yes, onions, may be the most versatile structure of its kind ever made. By Kari Paul|MOTHERBOARD Research from scientists at National…
Geschichte… We’re Eating a Hole in Our Ozone 29 Apr 201528 Apr 2015 One of the biggest modern day threats to our ozone layer is something we’ve largely overlooked for decades: nitrous oxide. It's also something we can't feed ourselves without producing. By…