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Interactive fractal tree of life zooms in on earth’s entire evolutionary history 17 Oct 2012 | 11:16 am
From protozoans to people, there is a lot of life on this planet, and it’s all connected to a common ancestor from which everything descends. It’s hard to imagine, let alone visualize, all of the comm...
A new theory of the mysterious origins of ball lightning 16 Oct 2012 | 10:53 am
A mathematical theory for the origins of ball lightning, one of atmospheric science’s rarest and more confounding natural phenomena. Ball lightning is one of those phenomena that is more or less unive...
How do we know we’re not living inside a massive computer simulation? 12 Oct 2012 | 09:55 am
A team of researchers is going down the theoretical rabbit hole with a test to find out if our universe is nothing more than a computer program. Living in the lattice We don’t want to alarm you, but t...
Special contact lenses could potentially stop myopia from progressing 4 Oct 2012 | 11:53 am
For younger readers with perfect eyesight, here’s something you might not know – glasses and contact lenses don’t do anything to cure nearsightedness, they only help compensate for it. In fact, the we...
Scientists invent transparent soil to reveal the secret life of plants 4 Oct 2012 | 11:49 am
Most people’s image of plants is actually upside down. For most of our photosynthetic friends, the majority of the plant is underground in the form of an intricate system of roots. The bit that sticks...
Bi-Fi: New cell-to-cell communication process could revolutionize bioengineering 1 Oct 2012 | 04:31 pm
The internet has revolutionized global communications and now researchers at Standford University are looking to provide a similar boost to bioengineering with a new process dubbed “Bi-Fi.” The techno...
More human than human: aI game bots pass Turing Test 27 Sep 2012 | 11:49 am
For five years, the annual BotPrize competition has been using a variant of the Turing Test known as a "Computer game bot Turing Test" to challenge programmers, researchers and hobbyists to create a b...
Science confirms the obvious: kids love McDonald’s 27 Sep 2012 | 11:37 am
A study shows how fast food chains’ logos are enough to light up pleasure centers in children’s brains. This new study sounds a lot like a 21st-century redo of Pavlov’s experiments with dogs: show kid...
Billionaire investor Peter Thiel backs new venture aimed at producing 3-D printed meat 16 Aug 2012 | 03:23 pm
Billionaire Peter Thiel would like to introduce you to the other, other white meat. The investor’s philanthropic Thiel Foundation’s Breakout Labs is offering up a six-figure grant (between $250,00 and...
Commercially-available NanoTritium battery can power microelectronics for 20+ years 16 Aug 2012 | 03:15 pm
When installing micro-electronic devices in locations that are expensive or hard to reach, or just downright dangerous, you don’t want to have to keep returning to swap out a battery cell. Canada’s Ci...
