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Alas, seems stuck at the prototype stage. :(

Machines designed to change humans

Yes, this can be a scary topic: machines designed to influence human beliefs and behaviors. But there’s good...

Apparently this is the evidence:

Concentration of CFC-11 in the Northern (red) and Southern (blue) Hemispheres compared to projected decline (gray...

Turing Test be damned, this is impressive.

At this year’s Google I/O developer’s conference in Mountain View, Google demoed a very natural-sounding...

The Golden State Killer raped and murdered victims all across the state of California in an era before Google searches and social media, a time when...

A electromagnetic thruster concept has been lurking about since about 2001. Developed by Roger Shawyer , the claim was it did not require propellant....

Happened across this

Lockheed Martin seeks to clean up space junk

The title says enough to get the gist without infringing on the copyright of an...

Active bionics making a profound difference. One brand new user remarks while trying the bionic legs for the very first time,
Oh my god, I can't...

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DNA Nobel Laureate James Watson Joins Shenzhen Research Center
China Money Network

James Watson, the Nobel laureate who...

Mount Etna is sliding toward the ocean.

Drilling Geothermal Wells With Projectiles

The average depth of an oil well is only about a kilometer and a half, and drilling down to 5 km...

The aliens are silent because they're dead
Science Daily

The universe is probably filled with habitable planets, so many scientists think it...

An artificial intelligence algorithm developed by Stanford researchers can determine a neighborhood’s political leanings by its cars

Stanford...

Fun! :)

Just so Rob can bitch some more… :twisted:

Designed by the former Chief Designer of Isuzu’s commercial truck division, Steve Jennes, now Chief...

Futurism: How to Survive a Black Hole

But at the edge of the Cauchy horizon, on the brink of singularity, the laws of physics don’t apply. So, not...

I am wondering if you can see these things from Sarasota area. Gotta know when

Gnome, you ever see one from where you are?

These guys are further...

OK. It's really four and a half year old news but I just heard about it.

Proxima Centauri's no good, very bad day
Science Daily

Summary:...

They will be going over the raw data finding new stuff for years. :coolspecs:

New Horizons Yields Wealth of Discovery from Pluto Flyby
Space...

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High school science fair project questioning African American intelligence sparks outrage
Sacramento Bee

Students, parents and staff...

Live feed, 4 minutes to go...

Nothing new, but a pleasant documentary to watch:

When I first read this headline I was pretty skeptical. The Daily Mail said:

Deadly earthquakes could hit a BILLION people next year because of...

Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces New Technology for Fast-Charging, Noncombustible Batteries

AUSTIN, Texas — A team of engineers led by...

Anyone recently been having a lot of audio sync issues with Netflix?

I use it on the XBOX One and it's been fine since installed, until just the...

I put this thread in science and mathematics even though it technically belongs in Politics and Social Events. Its not that I want to avoid the...

I was listening to some Saturday radio yesterday, you know, where shills buy time on stations that have otherwise respectable content.

A large...

Cool stuff.

Physicists Demonstrate How to Reverse of the Arrow of Time
The extraordinary experiment opens the door to a new generation of...

Darwin Was Sexist, and So Are Many Modern Scientists
Scientific American

Analysis: First they came for Art, but I said nothing because I was not...

Forensic scientists caught a deer munching on a human carcass for the first time ever
Popular Science

Two communes in Brittany are going to test them, so apparently they exist. The interesting points are:
– rechargeable in minutes;
– 100 km autonomy;...

Best viewed full screen. :coolspecs:

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Voyager 1 Just Fired Up its Backup Thrusters for the 1st Time in 37 Years
Space.com

NASA's far-flung Voyager 1 spacecraft has...

Don't laugh dammit!

THIS. IS. SCIENCE.

Doing vegetarianism to destabilize the meat-masculinity nexus in La Plata, Argentina
Taylor & Francis...

A very good article (if you forgive the horrid scripting) that includes several real world variations of the Trolley Problem.

Consider this...

Pokémon GO caused hundreds of deaths, increased crashes
The Register

Synopsis: Idiots playing it while driving.

Analysis: Already implicitly...

SpaceX plans to send 100 passengers to Mars by 2024

SpaceX will begin building the first ships that will make the human voyage to Mars possible in...

Evolution in your back garden: Great tits may be adapting their beaks to birdfeeders
Science Daily

Made you look. :P

Just what the title says: .

Tl; dr: it looks bad, but part of the evidence is (still) anecdotal.

So today I have seen umpteen million variations on this headline

Have researchers discovered an alien MEGASTRUCTURE? 'Bizarre' star could be...

Well, there's not enough time to do it now but let's at least get the next one.

A THREE MILE wide asteroid is set to graze past Earth on Sept. 1 -...

While Arecibo recovers:
China's huge new FAST radio telescope discovers two new pulsars

Chinese scientists working on the 500m FAST telescope have...

Casio's '2.5D' printer can mimic leather and fabric

At CEATEC, Casio demoed this Mofrel printing technology that adds a range of textures to...

Those interested in mathematics will have heard of that astonishing guy.

Alexander Grothendieck (German: ; French: ; 28 March 1928 – 13 November...

Hawaii’s Board of Land and Natural Resources today voted 5-2 to approve a permit to build the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). The vote follows retired...

Russia, US shoot for the moon with joint lunar station project
Space Daily

Synopsis: Just what the headline says + it's a necessary precursor to...

A recent paper published in Nature suggests that global warming may not be as severe as previous studies predicted.

Limiting global warming to 1.5...

Paging Dr. Venkman...

When he got home, he took his supplies into his office. He heated up his soldering iron, hoping his wife wouldn’t see what...

A mostly unthoughtful opinion on AI
I, for one, do not welcome our new robot overlords.

Let me elaborate.

Writing about Artificial Intelligence is...