Bio-Printers Are Churning Out Living Fixes To Broken Spines
by Eric Niiler: FOR DOCTORS AND medical researchers repairing the human body, a 3D printer has become almost as valuable as an x-ray machine, microscope, or a sharp scalpel…
GM Houseplant Sucks Cancer Linked Chemicals From The Air
by Sarah Washington: Researchers have genetically modified a common houseplant—pothos ivy—to remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it…
There Is No Planet B
by Kim Stanley Robinson: It’s up to us to craft the shape of the future…
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Elon Musk Will “Transform Civilization As We Know It”
by Matt Pressman: Elon Musk remains a frequent target in the media. Clickbait journalists clack away at their keyboards and smear the Tesla and SpaceX CEO on a regular basis…
What Larry Ellison Brings To Tesla
by Matt Pressman: While Elon Musk might be larger than life in Silicon Valley, he’s not (ahem) universally loved there…
Hope For The Best.. Prepare For The Worst
by Jason Mark: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote…
Scientists Engineer Shortcut For Photosynthetic Glitch, Boost Crop Growth By 40 percent
Plants convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis; however, most crops on the planet are plagued by a photosynthetic glitch…
AI Will Create Millions More Jobs Than It Will Destroy. Here’s How
by Byron Reese: In the past few years, artificial intelligence has advanced so quickly that it now seems hardly a month goes by without a newsworthy AI breakthrough…
Electric Cars May Already Be Making Gas Cars As Obsolete As ‘Flip Phones’, Experts Say
by Joe Romm: Buying a gas car today would leave you with a financial “albatross” that has little resale value, warns Wall Street Journal…
New Estimate Of Global Migration Is Much Higher
by James Washington: Researchers have unveiled a new statistical method for estimating migration flows between countries, using the so-called pseudo-Bayes approach…
Patient Receives 3D-printed Rib Implant In breakthrough Procedure
by Luke Dormehl: 3D printing made some big advances in the medical domain last year, and it seems like that trend isn’t going to slow down any time soon…
Leonardo DiCaprio Makes Jaw-Dropping Donation Of $100 Million To Fight Climate Change
Over the years, climate change has had drastic effects on our planet…
Nutrients In Blood Linked To Better Cognition And Brain Connectivity In Older Adults
by Diana Yates: Summary… Investigating 32 key nutrients in the Mediterranean diet…
Researchers Are Turning Bumblebees Into Live Drones
by Barbara Booth: The smaller the drone, the shorter the flight time — unless your drone is a real live bumblebee…
Life-or-Death Algorithms: Avoiding The Black Box Of AI In Medicine
by Thomas Hornigold: When it comes to applications for machine learning, few can be more widely hyped than medicine…
Saving the Seas: New Technologies to Protect the Ocean
by David Pring-Mill: The ocean covers more than 70 percent of our planet’s surface…
The Hippies Were Right: It’s All About Vibrations, Man!
by Tam Hunt: A new theory of consciousness…
Teens Get More Sleep, Show Improved Grades And Attendance With Later School Start Time, Researchers Find
by James Urton: When Seattle Public Schools announced that it would reorganize school start times across the district for the fall of 2016, the massive undertaking took more than a year to deploy…
Virgin Galactic could reach space for the first time this week
by Charlotte Jee: Virgin Galactic is going to launch a test flight tomorrow which would be its first to reach space…
The Effects Of Caffeine, Alcohol, And Exercise On Sleep: Analyzing The Surprising Results
by Max Frenzel: How much coffee is too much? A case study and tutorial on self-tracking to improve sleep…
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Will Gaze (And Drill) Into The Depths Of The Red Planet
by Devin Coldewey: NASA’s latest mission to Mars, InSight, is set to launch early Saturday morning in pursuit of a number of historic firsts in space travel and planetology…
NASA Turns To Private Companies For Future Moon Missions
by William Harwood: NASA has selected nine companies that will be allowed to compete for a share of up to $2.6 billion over the next 10 years to build and launch instruments…
How A Mysterious Body Part Called Fascia Is Challenging Medicine
by Robbie Gonzalez: Fascia is a web of fibrous tissue that permeates the body, but is it really the “Cinderella Tissue” that new age therapists, Rolfers, and yoga instructors suggest?
Your Brain On Exercise
Thinking about skipping out on the gym today? Not so fast. It’s not just your glutes and biceps that will miss out if you bypass exercise…
