Something Is Killing Up To Half Of America's Bees
• Colin Lecher via PopSci.comWhatever's killing honeybees is getting worse, but we still don't know what it is.
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Sea Walls Will Protect New York Subways From Storm Surges
• Francie Diep via PopSci.comNew walls in the Rockaways will protect a vulnerable stretch of the A train tracks.
A Working Transistor Built Out Of DNA Within A Living Cell
• Shaunacy Ferro via PopSci.comPretty much anything can be a computer, if it can compute logical functions, store data, and transmit information -- even living cells.
Satellite Gyroscopes Can Give Early Warnings Before Drivers Get Dangerously Tired
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comTechnology is helping Peruvian miners working in far-flung places.
First 3-D Acoustic Cloak Hides Objects From Sonar
• Francie Diep via PopSci.comThis plastic ring system doesn't exactly make the eight-centimeter ball inside less noticeable to the eye—but it does make the ball undetectable to sonar at a specific pitch.
Watch This Remote-Controlled Robot Dragonfly Tear Up The Skies
• Colin Lecher via PopSci.comSuper-light, flapping-wing flight in any direction
NASA Launches Three Military Drones Into An Active Volcano
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comThe drones flew above a volcano's crater and into its toxic plume.
Goodbye Apple iPhone? Wearable Tech Is Coming
• cnbc.comYour smartphone may be on its way out as tech companies aim to put the power of a smartphone into wearable accessories.
Graphene Desalination
• arcleinLockheed’s proposed desalination project filters through graphene, a material already touted as a modern marvel. A thousand times stronger than steel, it's also just one atom thick. Last July, Popular Science covered its potential use in water filtr
Probiotics Improve Bone Density
• arcleinA doctor of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) once told this author that "disease begins in the gut." Ayurvedic medicine also has a similar premise. Bad or sub-optimal digestion leads to all sorts of disease. That includes disease beyond the gast
New coronavirus is potentially more deadly than SARS
• http://www.rawstory.com, By David FergusonResearchers from the University of Hong Kong warned that a new coronavirus that has emerged from the Middle East has the potential to be deadlier than the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus, which kiled 774 people between 2002 and 2003.
'Skynet' Drones Work Together for "Homeland Security"
• Daily Paul.comProfessor Raffaello D'Andrea demonstrates the amazing capability of drones that can communicate with each other, technology he admits could be open to "abuse" and is "incredibly dangerous."
Get Lost in Paris’ Metro System With This Gorgeous 3-D Station Map
• Wired.comRegular maps of Paris’ large, incredibly intricate subway system can get overwhelming to look at very fast, but a gorgeous, interactive website makes it much easier on your eyes by rendering those maps through stunning 3-D graphics....
Colin Camerer: Neuroscience, game theory, monkeys
• ted.comWhen two people are trying to make a deal -- whether they’re competing or cooperating -- what’s really going on inside their brains?
Katherine Kuchenbecker: The technology of touch
• ted.comAs we move through the world, we have an innate sense of how things feel -- the sensations they produce on our skin and how our bodies orient to them. Can technology leverage this?
Excessive Sitting is Contraindicated
• arcleinUpon observation, it was determined that the longer a person sits each day, the more likely he or she is to develop markers of metabolic syndrome, which include high levels of both glucose and fatty acids in the bloodstream. As it turns out, an indiv
Think Then Walk Hardware Here
• arcleinUnlike a bionic limb, the exoskeleton doesn’t need to be linked with electrodes inside the body. Instead, it uses a simple cap that reads electrical signals from the brain. When the wearer thinks of moving, a certain pattern appears, which is interpr
Novel Brain Wave Model
• arcleinThe entire cortex, not just the area responsible for a certain function, is activated when a given task is initiated. Furthermore, activity occurs in a pattern: waves of activity roll from one side of the brain to the other. [ This suggests a timing
A Disturbing Vision Of Augmented Reality In The Future
• Business InsiderThe film doesn't show what happens next, but you can imagine. Now watch Sight in live action:
Speed Of Light In Vacuum Is Not Actually Constant, Study Finds
• http://www.popsci.com, By Francie DiepOh, and a vacuum may not really be void of matter.
Scientists Engineer Extreme Microorganisms To Make Fuel From Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
• http://www.popsci.com, By Colin LecherA University of Georgia team tinkered with the genes of Pyrococcus furiosus, and the new breed is hungry for the smoggy stuff.
Strange Biology Inspires the Best New Materials
• Wired.comFrom the shiny, strong nacre that gives abalone shells an unbreakable, opaline sheen, to the goopy mix of proteins fired by a velvet worm that solidify and trap prey upon impact, nature is packed with inspiration for scientists designing new material
Mark Shaw: One very dry demo
• ted.comMark Shaw demos Ultra-Ever Dry, a liquid-repellent coating that acts as an astonishingly powerful shield against water and water-based materials.
Marine Life in the Deep
• arcleinhe New Britain Trench featured hundreds of stunning stalked anemones growing on pillow lavas at the bottom of the trench, as well as a shallower seafloor community dominated by spoon worms, burrowing animals that create a rosette around them by licki
Rectennas
• arcleinIn theory, these very small antenna arrays can harvest over 70 percent of the sun’s electromagnetic radiation and convert it into electric power. These are called “rectennas” due to their ability to absorb the alternating current induced by sunlight
Will Hypnosis Lead the Revolution in Healthcare?
• arcleinOf quantum mechanics Einstein said, “The more success quantum mechanics has, the sillier it looks.” The mysterious force Planck referred to is consciousness. But it really doesn’t seem all that silly anymore. The current generation of people living o
FYI: Why Are Celebrities Injecting Their Faces With Blood?
• popsci.comThe science of the "vampire facial"
Graphene aerogel takes world’s lightest material crown
• gizmag.comNot even a year after it claimed the title of the world’s lightest material, aerographite has been knocked off its crown by a new aerogel made from graphene.
Lockheed Martin Says This Desalination Technology Is An Industry Game-Changer
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Dina SpectorThe latest technology for removing salt from seawater, developed by Lockheed Martin, will be a game-changer for the industry, according to Ray O. Johnson, senior vice president and chief technology officer of the jet and weapons manufacturer.
Science Fiction Comes Alive as Researchers Grow Organs in Lab
• http://online.wsj.com, By GAUTAM NAIKReaching into a stainless steel tray, Francisco Fernandez-Aviles lifted up a gray, rubbery mass the size of a fat fist.
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