Science says the EmDrive is a fake. Its creator designed the EmDrive as an engine for space travel. The EmDrive uses a RF resonant cavity thruster. This should create thrust without any propellant. Traveling around and carrying all your fuel with you gets very expensive, and a propellant-less thruster would change space travel forever. Unfortunately, […] More
Finally, scientists have solved a 60-year-old mystery about Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts, thanks to a tiny orbiting satellite and students at the University of Colorado Boulder. Published in Nature, the study looked at the source of high-energy electrons in Earth’s inner radiation belt. The Van Allen belts are two large belts of radiation that surround […] More
Stephen Hawking passed away on March 14, 2018 (also known as Pi Day). Stephen Hawking is probably best known for his work on black holes and the theoretical discovery of Hawking radiation. Hawking radiation is a process by which black holes evaporate and disappear. More
So you can solve a Rubik’s cube. But can you solve a Rubik’s cube on fire? Tony Fisher is a Rubik’s cube enthusiast. He uploads Rubik’s cube videos to his YouTube channel with some twists. What do we mean? He recently solved a Rubik’s cube made out of ice. Now, he’s back. With a Rubik’s […] More
Google’s AI can predict a person’s heart health just by observing their eyes. Research was conducted by scientists from Google and its health subsidiary, Verily. Google and Verily used machine learning software to analyze medical data from almost 300,000 patients’ eyes in UK and US. The Google AI algorithm scans the back of the patient’s […] More
Is the FBI hacking into every iPhone? An unknown person posted a screenshot of (unconfirmed) source code to Github. The screen purportedly shows common OS X boot code. The computer code, written in C, contains a “suspicious” line: PROFILE_ENTER(“FBI”); Some people seem to think this allows the Federal Bureau of Investigation to bypass security measures […] More
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Discover: If Modern Humans Are So Smart, Why Are Our Brains Shrinking? Many anthropologists think the human brain size is shrinking. Or at least that they are now smaller than our hominid ancestors. Scientists have no consensus for why that is. Over the past 20,000 years, the average volume of the human male brain shrank […] More
Vice: World Scientists Send Warning Notice to Humanity Alarmist, quasi-scientific claims are part and parcel of today’s politics. But it’s very hard to take any scientist seriously who makes absurd claims like “the global temperature is up 29 percent”. Do you even Kelvin, Mr. Scientist man? More
Did you notice the coin ridges on the edges of your picket change? Ever wonder why government treasuries spends so much money on creating those tiny little ridges? Wouldn’t it be easier and cheaper to build a smooth one? Of course, the Treasury might save some money to make the edges smooth. However, the U.S. […] More
There’s a long-running myth about how you can lock a door with fork or two forks. It sounds like a nifty life hack. Who knows when you’ll need to lock a door to protect yourself from an ax murdered? Now, I’ve tried it myself–and I’ve never been able to work. There has to be something […] More
The Internet doesn’t come with a safety harness. If you are using online commerce (which is nearly everyone), there is always some risk of a security breach–and even identity theft. Now, security researchers have discovered an enormous spam list–containing over 710 million email addresses. Uncovered by Benkow, a Paris-based security researcher, this is the largest […] More
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