Curing PTSD
• arcleinPeople who survive a painful event should express their feelings soon after so the memory isn’t “sealed over” and repressed, which could lead to post-traumatic stress disorder. In recent years, CISD has be
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Flatworm Immortality
• arcleinThe researchers found that flatworms can continuously maintain the length of a crucial part of their DNA, known as telomeres, during regeneration. Dr Aboobaker's team studied two types of planarian – those that reproduce sexually, like humans, an
Possible Earliest Evidence of Christianity Resurrected from Ancient Tomb
• Wynne Parry via LiveScience.comIn an ancient tomb located below a modern condominium building in Jerusalem, archaeologists have found ossuaries — bone boxes for the dead — bearing engravings that could represent the earliest archaeological evidence of Christians ever found.
Consumer groups urge Google to delay privacy revamp
• The RawStory.comA coalition of European and US consumer advocacy groups made a last-ditch appeal to Internet search and advertising giant Google on Wednesday to delay changes to its privacy policies.
Fukushima's 'cold' reactors pose a constant threat
• Hilary Whiteman, CNNTwisted metal beams still jut from the top of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi stricken reactors, almost one year after a massive tsunami triggered nuclear meltdown.
How a Web Link Can Take Control of Your Phone
• Tom Simonite via TechnologyReview.comIf Android users click the wrong link, an attacker could intercept phone calls and track their location.
The NSA Builds a Super-secure Android Device
• Tom Simonite via TechnologyReview.comThe prototypes, code-named "Fishbowl", make encrypted calls, and may be emulated by handset manufacturers.
Behold: The Most Fabulously Ferocious Ferrari Ever
• Chuck Squatriglia via WIRED.comAt some point, automakers will realize there is more to life than horsepower, gearheads will see eyeball-flattening acceleration is overrated and … oh, who are we kidding? There will always be cars like the fabulously ferocious Ferrari F12berlinetta
1 in 8 Chance of Catastrophic Solar Megastorm by 2020
• Adam Mann via WIRED.comThe Earth has a roughly 12 percent chance of experiencing an enormous megaflare erupting from the sun in the next decade. This event could potentially cause trillions of dollars’ worth of damage and take up to a decade to recover from.
Lytro Camera Lets You Shoot Now, Focus Later
• John Bradley via WIRED.comAfter two weeks with the Lytro camera, I still can’t decide if it’s a highly refined proof-of-concept or an uneven look at the future of photography. It’s simultaneously addictive and frustrating. It’s also a truly unique photographic experience.
Under the Sea: In the Age of Wireless, Can't We Do Better than Intercontinental Fiber Optic Cabl
• Clay DillowOn Saturday, a ship waiting to enter the Kenyan port city of Mombasa wandered into a restricted area and dropped its anchor, inadvertently severing a major undersea Internet and phone link to East Africa.
Will Doctors Ever Cure Migraines?
• Ryan Bradley via PopSci.comMy first migraine arrived in a fuzzy cloud of reds and purples, a stab of pain that left me bent over in the back of an auto-rickshaw, squinting and nauseous, on my morning commute to Connaught Place, in New Delhi.
Chinese Drones Will Use Genetic Algorithms to Learn to Hunt For Submarines
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comChina usually holds its military hand very close to the vest-things “mysteriously” leak that it doesn’t (does) want the world to know about--so we wonder why the People’s Republic has decided to publish this in the journal Advanced Materials Research
No Pulse: How Doctors Reinvented The Human Heart
• Dan Baum via PopSci.comThis 10,000-rpm, no-pulse artificial heart doesn't resemble an organic heart--and might be all the better for it
Teenagers Are More Vulnerable to Sport Concussions
• arcleinDuring adolescence, these functions are developing rapidly which makes them more fragile to stress and trauma,” explained Dr. Ellemberg, who is a professor at the university’s Department of Kinesiology.
Google Offers $1 Million in Hacker Bounties for Exploits Against Chrome
• Kim Zetter via WIRED.comIt may be hard out there for a pimp, but it just got a little bit more lucrative for a hacker.
IBM Busts Record for ‘Superconducting’ Quantum Computer
• Cade Metz via WIRED.comToday’s quantum computers are no more than experiments. Researchers can string a handful of quantum bits — seemingly magical bits store a “1″ and “0″ at the same time — and these ephemeral creations can run relatively simple algorithms.
More Americans believe in climate change: poll
• The RawStory.comNearly two-thirds of Americans believe that climate change is real — the highest level in two years — as the public trusted its own observations of rising temperatures, a poll said Tuesday.
‘Cloud’ Data Center Closes Because Federal Agencies Prefer Earth
• Caleb Garling via WIRED.comHarris Corporation is selling its super-secure data center in Harrisonburg, Virginia and leaving the “cloud computing” business, saying both its government and commercial customers prefer hosting “mission-critical information” on their own premises.
Battery to Take On Diesel and Natural Gas
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comAquion Energy says its batteries could make the power grid unnecessary in some countries.
City with Superfast Internet Invites Innovators to Play
• David Talbot via TechnologyReview.comA Tennessee city with one-gigabit-per-second Internet runs a $300,000 contest to find ways of using it.
Fungal Pathway to Reducing Plastic
• arcleinmediation properties. It was discovered that a key enzyme in this fungal genus known as taxol is responsible for eating away PUR, and that this "extracellular, secreted and diffusible" substance diffuses to "a significant distance," which means i
Bill Ford Says Connected Cars Can Save Us From Gridlock
• Keith Barry via Wired.comAs the number of privately-owned vehicles increases worldwide, the executive chairman and scion of an automotive dynasty is warning of massive global gridlock that can only be solved through technological advances.
Private Space Industry Races To Fill Job Openings
• Jason Paur via WIRED.comThe burgeoning private space industry continues to grow and based on hiring needs. Three of the leaders representing both commercial orbital and sub-orbital missions have busy human resource departments trying fill dozens of openings.
Newly Discovered Space Rock Is Headed Toward Earth, Estimated Time of Arrival 2040
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comAll eyes are on the asteroid Apophis, but a new threat--just 460 feet wide--dominated the conversation at a recent meeting of the UN Action Team on near-Earth objects (NEOs)
New Neural Interfaces Can Bring True Feeling to Artificial Limbs
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comNew plastic scaffolds attached to prosthetic devices could enable nerves to feel and control artificial limbs, using electrical signals to bring back real sensations.
Shoe Power
• arcleinLet us consider the case of the film stack with the capacitance of 16 nF cm−2. The average generated power calculated using equation (2) is shown in Figure 3b. The average power per foot can exceed 2 W for bias voltages in excess of 35 V and 10
‘Super sherpa’ says climate change may make Mount Everest unclimbable
• The RawStory.comClimate change is altering the face of the Himalayas, devastating farming communities and making Mount Everest increasingly treacherous to climb, some of the world’s top mountaineers have warned.
Unlimited human eggs 'potential' for fertility treatment
• By James GallagherIt may be possible to one day create an "unlimited" supply of human eggs to aid fertility treatment, US doctors say.
BitTorrent for Live Video
• Tom Simonite via TechnologyReview.comThe inventor of the world's most popular file-sharing protocol now wants to stream live video or TV over the Internet.
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