Bill Gates Is Offering $100K To Whoever Can Make A 'Next Generation' Condom
• Business InsiderThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is offering $100,000 to anyone who can make a condom people actually like to use - a "next-generation" condom.
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Play A Chord And This Database Will Guess Which Comes Next
• popsci.comHook Theory mined data to see how chords are used, then mapped them.
Let This Man Explain Why Your March Madness Bracket Sucks
• popsci.comGood luck getting every team right! (No, seriously. You need the luck.)
Under Extremes, Big Groups Can Act Like A Force Of Nature
• livescience.comLarge groups of humans emulate natural phenomena in surprising ways, especially when faced with extreme conditions such as riots, rock concerts, or earthquakes.
Doctors Should Tell Patients About Some, But Not All, Unexpected Genetic Findings
• Technologyreview.comA professional medical geneticists group recommends that certain genetic risk factors be examined in all medical DNA sequence tests.
What in the Cell is going on? The Battle is over pH
• IHSite.Com Dr. Gary TunskySince cells are the bricks and mortar from which all living tissue and organs are made, to understand degenerative and metabolic disease you must become familiar with the miniature world of the cell and how they are able to perform baffling chemica
Superheated Water Etches Diamond
• http://www.popsci.com, By Francie DiepWater acting weird
To Beat Amazon, Walmart Is Treating Its Stores Like Apps
• Wired.comWalmart is a technology company. Let’s just put that out there right now.
Upcoming technology would let citizens buy drone countermeasures
• naturalnews.comIn physics, there is an axiom that goes something like this: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Black Death" Could Return, Study Warns
• Lewrockwell.comThe recurring plagues known as the “Black Death,” which decimated medieval peoples, could return in modern times as antibiotic-resistant forms of of the virus have emerged, a study warns.
Under the skin’ microchip blood-testing device developed
• Prison PlanetScientists say they have developed a tiny blood-testing device that sits under the skin and gives instant results via a mobile phone.
MinusIQ | The pill to lower your IQ permanently
• Daily Paul.com"Because the world's a much brighter place when you're not bright for it."
Do Statin Drugs Cause Memory Loss?
• arcleinSome of the studies showing that the drugs improve memory have been done in mice. For example, the statin drug simvastatin (Zocor®) fully restored short- and long-term memory in adult mice in an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This same eff
SpiderSense suit delivers superhuman perception
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Jonathan FincherUsing a collection of sensors placed all over the body, the SpiderSense suit detects objects in the environment and warns the wearer when anything gets too close
Artificial Biofilm Helps Heal Eyes
• http://www.technewsdaily.com, by Marshall HonorofDue to the complexity of animal vision — and mammalian vision in particular — repairing damaged eyes is one of the most challenging aspects of modern medicine.
Pew Pew! Scientists Build Lasers Out of Sound, Call Them Phasers
• http://www.wired.com, By Adam MannUsing a nanoscale drum, scientists have built a laser that uses sound waves instead of light like a conventional laser.
Scientists Want To Bring 24 Animals Back From Extinction
• Business InsiderOn Friday at a National Geographic sponsored TEDx conference, scientists met in Washington, D.C. to discuss which animals we should bring back from extinction
Whole Foods and the GMO Blame Game
• Farm WarsWhole Foods said out loud what just about every grocery store, supermarket, and big box health food store is really doing – selling GMOs disguised as “healthy” food. You can do it, just don’t talk about it.
High Tech Brain
• arclein"They allow us to construct extremely energy-efficient and robust processors that are able to learn by themselves," Thomas said, suggesting principles taken from nature can be recreated in technological systems to develop a neuromorphic or nerve-
Flu Breakthrough
• arcleinIn order to infect cells, flu viruses bind onto sugars on the cell surface. To be able to spread they need to remove these sugars. The new drug works by preventing the virus from removing sugars and blocking the virus from infecting more cells. It is
Using Graphene, Lockheed Martin Wants To Turn Salt Water Into Drinking Water
• popsci.comA new Lockheed Martin project promises to cheaply and easily turn seawater into drinking water.
10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter
• Wired.comPayPal co-founder Max Levchin faced some flak recently when he announced he was starting a new company in the already crowded field of digital payments
A Cancer Gene Therapy Activated by a Pill
• Technologyreview.comPatients can turn off an experimental treatment if side effects get too bad.
Where Siri Has Trouble Hearing, a Crowd of Humans Could Help
• Technologyreview.comA program called Scribe harnesses humans on the Internet to generate speech captions in under five seconds.
Photovoltaic Polymer Lets Damaged Retinas See the Light
• Technologyreview.comA light-sensitive polymer could offer a new way to develop artificial retinas.
Earthquakes Turn Water Into Gold
• LiveScienceWater in faults vaporizes during an earthquake, depositing gold, according to a model which provides a quantitative mechanism for the link between gold and quartz seen in many of the world's gold deposits, said a geophysicist at the
Special device keeps liver ‘alive’ outside body for up to 24 hours
• http://natmonitor.com, Lance TillsonMore than 6,000 liver transplants are performed each year in the United States.
Watch This Absolutely Beautiful Animated Explanation Of DNA
• popsci.comA brief history of the foundation of life, distilled to its foundation.
Autodesk CEO Carl Bass On The Future Of 3-D Printing At Home
• http://www.popsci.com, By Dave Mosher"In five to 10 years... you're going to be able to print DNA and tissue."
Catarina Mota: Play with smart materials
• ted.comInk that conducts electricity; a window that turns from clear to opaque at the flip of a switch; a jelly that makes music. All this stuff exists, and Catarina Mota says: It's time to play with it.
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