Thursday, May 31, 2018

How artificial intelligence is transforming the world

Learning from a cancer’s past could predict its future

Time To Put More Thought Into Artificial Intelligence

Dialing Up the Body’s Defenses Against Public Health and National Security Threats

How Alan Turing Invented the Computer Age

Image of the Day: Bacterial Flagella

Genes found only in humans influence brain size

China turns to Robotic Policing

Hubble Catches New Stars, Individually, Forming In Galaxies Beyond The Milky Way

Studies Show That People Who Have High “Integrative Complexity” Are More Likely To Be Successful

Artificial Intelligence vs. Human - NYX Professional Makeup Face Awards Austria 2018

A Health and Longevity Strategy

The fecal metabolome as a functional readout of the gut microbiome

A New Genetic Clue to How Humans Got Such Big Brains

ASUS announces a motherboard just for crypto-mining

Sex on Mars is going to be risky, but it could create a new human subspecies

WIMPs after XENON1T

Scientists show how brain circuit generates anxiety

Here's what Earth might look like in 100 years - if we're lucky

Looking beyond mutations, researchers take a new approach to an old oncogene

Coming to Grips with the Implications of Quantum Mechanics

Sweet tooth? Brain-tinkering study makes sugar taste vile

Genetic Adaptation to Cold Brought Migraines With It

Convolutional neural networks for seizure prediction using intracranial and scalp electroencephalogram

Coming to Grips with the Implications of Quantum Mechanics

How to install Tensorflow GPU with CUDA 9.2 for python on Ubuntu

A Parallel Universe Does Exist And Science Just Discovered Evidence To Prove It

The brain cells that drive schizophrenia

Nvidia debuts cloud server platform to unify AI and high-performance computing

The Information Theory of Deep Neural Networks: The statistical physics aspects

Eight megatrends driving digital disruption

Interventions to promote cardiometabolic health and slow cardiovascular ageing

Defects in tissue trigger disease-like transformation of cells

Head and Heart: An Unusual Partnership to Break New Ground in Biomedical Research

XENON1T experimental data establishes most stringent limit on dark matter

Cometh the cyborg: Improved integration of living muscles into robots

Fast-Evolving Human-Specific Neural Enhancers Are Associated with Aging-Related Diseases

Business Intelligence Through Intellectual Property Analytics - Examining Facebook and Amazon

A modified Artificial Bee Colony algorithm to solve Clustering problems

Those Vitamin And Mineral Supplements You’re Taking Make No Difference To Your Health

What Is Spacetime?

'Second brain' neurons keep colon moving

Promise of Faster, More Accessible Schizophrenia Diagnosis, Rutgers Study Shows

Creating piece of mind

Sniffing out real truffles

Surgical technique improves sensation, control of prosthetic limb

Deep Learning: Advanced Computer Vision

Study identifies processes in the gut that drive fat build-up around the waist

CLL Patient Treated at Penn Goes Into Remission Thanks to Single CAR T Cell

Expand Your Raspberry Pi's Functionality with This Sensor Kit

First 3D printed human corneas

Observation of a Significant Excess of Electron-Like Events in the MiniBooNE Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment

New results confirm old anomaly in neutrino data

What do physicists mean when they say the laws of nature are beautiful?

General AI should have universal human rights

Research in mice may explain CAR-T therapy’s toxic side effects - and how to block them

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

How Close Are We - Really - to Building a Quantum Computer?

How an abandoned lab could show us the future

Moon walking: Ex-Nasa astronauts describe lunar experience

Fifty years since DNA repair was linked to cancer

Money for nothing: the truth about universal basic income

Dark matter particles elude scientists in the biggest search of its kind

Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

Intellectual contributions meriting authorship: Survey results from the top cited authors across all science categories

‘Reprogrammed’ stem cells approved to mend human hearts for the first time

Questioning Truth, Reality and the Role of Science

Brexit uncertainty threatens fusion-energy research

Lack of funding forces Canada to abort mission on NASA telescope project

Response of the Great Barrier Reef to sea-level and environmental changes over the past 30,000 years

Evidence for convergent evolution of host parasitic manipulation in response to environmental conditions

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Lab-Grown Human-Chicken Hybrid Embryos Are No 'Frankenfowl'

Oxytocin, vasopressin flatten social hierarchy and synchronize behaviors

Cockroach Milk Has More Protein And Nutrients Than Regular Milk: The Next Superfood Trend?

Monday, May 28, 2018

Astronaut Peggy Whitson Comes 'Home' in 'One Strange Rock' Finale

Oxalo Therapeutics Seeks to Help Kidney Stone Patients

Is Time Travel Possible? Scientists Explore the Past and Future

Cell chat: Attacking disease by learning the language of cells

SparingVision Finds Cure to Common Form of Blindness

Sunday, May 27, 2018

Tender Images Reveal Life Inside an Alzheimer's Ward

Pink pineapples and healthy fries: The new GM foods made for you

Why Is Advanced Physics Worth Researching?

Six Japanese Public Companies Announce Plans to Launch Crypto Exchanges

This Food Poisoning Expert Revealed The Six Things He Refuses To Eat

A 21-year-old Swedish AI prodigy wants to revolutionize the $6 trillion education industry - and Tim Cook is impressed

When it comes to heart and brain disorders, sex matters

Researchers Question Effects of Hurricanes on Kids’ Brains

Scaffolding Gel Spurs Regrowth of Damaged Brain Tissue

Harvard Dropout’s Startup Loses Billions in South Korea Battle

These futuristic buildings are at one with nature

How can we teach our children to be moral?

Long-Term and Short-Term Relationships Initially Indistinguishable

Alzheimers Reversed by Editing a Single Gene

Origin of our species: Why humans were once so much more diverse

Invasion der Hammerhaiwürmer

This Is How Alexa Can Record Private Conversations

Our genes affect everything from height to heart disease

Brain implant for OCD surprisingly helps alleviate diabetes too

New Smallpox-Related Virus Found Lurking in Texas Rodents

Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels this century will alter the protein, micronutrients, and vitamin content of rice grains

Renewable industrial chemicals from bioengineered bacteria

How moderate sunlight exposure improves learning and memory

New algorithm predicts life expectancy after heart failure

NCI study finds gut microbiome can control antitumor immune function in liver

A neural network for intermale aggression to establish social hierarchy

You Can Make A Fire Pit In Your Garden Using 3D Printing - Here Is How

Driverless Technology, Not Just Automobiles

Quantum time: Is this where the flow of existence comes from?

To See Where Americans Want to Live, Check Their Search Histories

How to easily run comprehensive tests on your website with Nikto2

Blockchain Is About to Revolutionize the Shipping Industry

Science Says Tall Husbands And Short Wives Have Better Marriages

Scientists discover how to harness the power of quantum spookiness by entangling clouds of atoms

This is what it's like to live in the world's most polluted city

If We Want A Pluralistic Society, We Will Need To Accept Gridlock

Five books Bill Gates thinks you should read this summer

Masters of Our DNA: Designer Bodies Are Not Science Fiction

Elite Dating Apps Threaten to Make America’s Wealth Gap Worse

What you should know about the thousands of missing, abused and exploited immigrant children in the USA, and what you can do about it

It's a boy thing

Trapped in self-service hell

Engineers Are Leaving Trump’s America for the Canadian Dream

Eating One Egg a Day Is Linked With a Seriously Lower Risk of Heart Disease

Older Americans are less likely to read than younger people

Introducing the Team Behind Half Dome - Facebook Reality Labs’ Varifocal Prototype

Apple is having a tough time persuading fans to buy new iPhones

Deoxyribonuclease test

Does studying yellow fever offer Zika clues?

Scientists Reverse Alzheimer’s in Mice

What's Behind the Rise in Oil Prices

Here’s How Fast China’s Economy Is Catching Up to the U.S.

Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters

Where Did Cancer Come From?

Tiny particles could help fight brain cancer

Gaming addiction is now seen as a mental health condition by the WHO

Sitting all day is killing us. Could a bicycle desk be a life-saver?

Is The Sand a Solid, Liquid or Gas?

Ingestible “bacteria on a chip” could help diagnose disease

Neurofeedback is Not For Everyone: The Dangers of Neurology

What’s behind those billion-dollar biotech deals?

This Radical Research to Extend Human Life is About DNA Lengthening

New Zealand is planning to plant 100 million trees

'Sea Nomads' Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted to Diving

Medical Engineers Have Built A EpiPen Replacement That Costs $16 A Shot

Short-Term, Intermittent Fasting Induces Long-Lasting Gut Health and TOR-Independent Lifespan Extension

Writing a daily diary can literally change your brain

If Cancer Can't Survive In An Alkaline Environment, Why Don't We Use That As A Treatment?

Focus on Endocrinology

Which role does the brain play in prosocial behavior?

The right-wing politics of the "Singularity"

The brain’s frontal lobe could be involved in chronic pain: U of T research

AI footstep recognition system could be used for airport security

Marijuana Compound Removes Toxic Alzheimer's Protein From The Brain

Researchers unearth a huge botnet army of 500,000 hacked routers

Ten Real-World Examples of Machine Learning and AI

China Considers Ending Birth Limits as Soon as This Year

Code to Joy

Which is more powerful: genetic or epigenetic variation?

How do emerging technologies affect the creative economy?

The growing investment impact of Big Tech on the US economy

The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity

Interview with Christof Koch

Notes on Graph Theory

Twelve Signs That A Thyroid May Not Be Working As It Should

How to design an award-winning conference poster

Hello World Canada: The Rise of AI

Why China’s Payment Apps Give U.S. Bankers Nightmares

U.S. Leapfrogs Singapore, Hong Kong to Win World’s Most Competitive Economy

Mice regrow brain tissue after stroke with bioengineered gel

Sex Differences in the Adult Human Brain: Evidence from 5216 UK Biobank Participants

Why do humans have such huge brains?

Scientists Transfer a Memory From one Snail to Another

How to train your virus

The particle physics of you

‘Decent Probability’ Bitcoin Price Goes to Zero: Vanguard Economist

Pioneers’18 Closes With First Official Tech Conference Theme Tune Composed by AI

Gauging language proficiency through eye movement

How Fourier’s transformational thinking still makes a difference

What Are the Limits of Manipulating Nature?

The head of the National Cancer Institute on hopes for AI, the future of precision medicine, and big data

Saturday, May 26, 2018

Markov Chains in Python: Beginner Tutorial

The detection of faked identity using unexpected questions and mouse dynamics

If Energy Becomes Free in the Future, How Will That Affect Our Lives?

The US military released a study on warp drives and faster-than-light travel

ScienceAlert Deal: Start Making Your Own Animated Videos With Animatron Studio Pro

The head of the National Cancer Institute on hopes for AI, the future of precision medicine, and big data

The incomparable life of Nikola Tesla, inside Chernobyl, and the wilder shores of consciousness: Books in brief

Heredity beyond the gene

Rot, drills and inequity: the tangled tale of teeth

Q&A Mary Frank Fox: Time to ditch the leaky pipeline model

How to fit in when you join a lab abroad

The global south is rich in sustainability lessons that students deserve to hear

Before reproducibility must come preproducibility

Large potential reduction in economic damages under UN mitigation targets

The biomass distribution on Earth

Self-organization of a human organizer by combined Wnt and Nodal signalling

Rush to protect lucrative antibody patents kicks into gear

Muons: the little-known particles helping to probe the impenetrable

Friday, May 25, 2018

Inflammation and Chronic Disease

I'm ill, not sick

Trinity says: Let's talk

The Price of Open Science

Science needs clarity on Europe’s data-protection law

Beware: transparency rule is a Trojan Horse

Addressing the minimum fleet problem in on-demand urban mobility

Pulsar emission amplified and resolved by plasma lensing in an eclipsing binary

Self-organization of a human organizer by combined Wnt and Nodal signalling

Can you handle the tooth? AI helps dentists design fake gnashers

MIT’s Super-Efficient Dispatching Algorithm Minimizes a City's Taxi Fleet

Few rules govern police use of facial-recognition technology

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Will AI Ever Become Conscious?

Leg exercise is critical to brain and nervous system health

Google and Coursera launch a new machine learning specialization

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

How the math men overthrew the mad men

‘It’s a toxic place.’ How the online world of white nationalists distorts population genetics

Why North Korea's denuclearization plan doesn't convince this nuclear expert

How gut microbes are joining the fight against cancer

€100-billion budget proposed for Europe’s next big research programme

Plans for £100m Nobel Centre blocked by Swedish court

Indonesian plan to clamp down on foreign scientists draws protest

How a Pioneer of Machine Learning Became One of Its Sharpest Critics

Why the pharmaceutical industry is giving up the search for an Alzheimer’s cure

Cannabis kehrt Alterungsprozesse im Gehirn um

A new look inside Theranos' dysfunctional corporate culture

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Study supports restrictions on opioid-containing cold medicines for children

What Is Nipah Virus? Outbreak in India Kills at Least Ten

Most Maps of the New Ebola Outbreak Are Wrong

The biomass distribution on Earth

Share of African American men going into medicine hits historic low

Chinese satellite launch kicks off ambitious mission to Moon’s far side

Variation in the distribution and properties of Circumpolar Deep Water in the eastern Amundsen Sea, on seasonal timescales, using seal‐borne tags

In Österreich umstritten, im Norden Alltag

Quantum Computing Update: Scientists Successfully Control Atom Position and Entanglement

Physicist Kate Shaw: ‘Even in conservative places, you do not have to be in conflict with scientific ideas’

New rationale for 15-element wide f block

UK’s powerful funding body takes shape

Experimental drugs poised for use in Ebola outbreak

Bill Gates Admits His Common Core Experiment Is A Failure

Monday, May 21, 2018

Quantum effects observed in photosynthesis

Princeton researchers crowdsource brain mapping with gamers, discover six new neuron types

How often you need to exercise to see results, according to the creator of the viral 7-minute workout

This is why the language you speak can change how you perceive time

Advances in Semantic Textual Similarity

A new synthetic molecule may solve a paradox about life’s origin

The ocean currents that keep the US and Europe warm are at their weakest in 1600 years

Self-healing material a breakthrough for bio-inspired robotics

Inside the training camp where Google shares its A.I. secrets with companies Alphabet invested in

Activists are lobbying the FTC to break up Facebook

Roundup Of Machine Learning Forecasts And Market Estimates, 2018

Why political and economic freedom drives creativity

Giant Chinese salamander is at least five distinct species, all heading toward extinction

The physics of a Tesla Model X towing a Boeing 787

“Safety,” yes; “sorry,” no: What Mark Zuckerberg did—and didn’t—say in his F8 keynote

Can we actually stop using fossil fuels?

Earth Doesn't Actually Have The Most Water in The Solar System

This DeepMind AI Spontaneously Developed Digital Navigation ‘Neurons’ Like Ours

Mark Zuckerberg's EU Testimony Will Be Livestreamed, Was Originally Planned To Be Behind Closed Doors

Slowing Global Warming Could Save a Majority of Earth’s Species

These animations show the Western world is rapidly ageing

Eight Signs Your Child Is Smarter Than Average, According To Science

Babies should mix with other children to lower leukaemia risk

In the Wake of Mass Shootings, Parents Reconsider Mass Schooling

Artificial intelligence is learning to see in the dark

Pregnancy drug DES might have triggered ADHD in the grandchildren of women who used it

The UK wants to build a cancer-diagnosing AI to save lives

Another arrest shows why no one can hide from the genetic detectives

These are the bad habits to break to become more productive

This is what the world might look like in 2118

This is what life is like in the world's most polluted city

We’ve measured the pressure inside a proton and it’s extreme

The US isn’t fertile enough to sustain itself without immigrants

Some people with synaesthesia feel other people's sensations of touch – painful and pleasurable

Eczema drug effective against severe asthma

Depression is the no. 1 cause of ill health and disability worldwide

Celebrities Are Obsessed with the Keto Diet. Why You Shouldn't Be

Does the brain store information in discrete or analog form?

Blood from umbilical cord may help fix your brain after a stroke

The Movement to Break Up Facebook Has Begun

Exercise to stay young: 4-5 days a week to slow down your heart's aging

New evidence for existence of Planet Nine

A finely resolved phylogeny of Y chromosome Hg J illuminates the processes of Phoenician and Greek colonizations in the Mediterranean

US Fertility Rates Have Plummeted Into Uncharted Territory, And Nobody Knows Why

The Smarter You Are The Less Dendrites You Have

Medicina Ex Machina

Quantum Physics May Be Even Spookier Than You Think

The mysterious story of former Theranos president Sunny Balwani, who former employees saw as an 'enforcer' and the SEC charged with fraud

Nine star lawyers helping blockchain companies navigate the tricky waters of cryptocurrency regulation

China's social credit system has blocked people from taking 11 million flights and 4 million train trips

Syrian President Says US Presidents Don't Control Foreign Policy - The Deep State Does

Why the Future of Health Must Be Reinvented with Blockchain

New Zealand is using gene editing to control wildlife

Synaptic nanomodules underlie the organization and plasticity of spine synapses

Meet the growing number of college entrepreneurs

Your Spotify history could predict the state of the economy

Brain signaling mechanism in social isolation induced stress

Cause of polycystic ovary syndrome discovered at last

What humanity’s history in space tells us about our future in the stars

Evidence mounts for Majorana quasiparticles in solids

Three or four cups of coffee a day might be good for your health

China satellite heralds first mission to far side of Moon

What Counts As A Schrödinger Cat?

London may introduce car-free days to cut pollution

Why we must learn to trust AI

U.S. Putting ‘Trade War’ Against China on Hold, Mnuchin Says

A school in China is monitoring students with facial-recognition technology that scans the classroom every 30 seconds

Drollige Roboter werden uns eines Tages versklaven

Fünf Bereiche, die von der Blockchain umgekrempelt werden

Self-driving cars are useless without specialized maps—this invention could free them

Cement, extreme cold experiments head to space aboard Cygnus cargo ship

Long-sought structure of telomerase paves way for drugs for aging, cancer

Aha! What happens in your brain when you have a lightbulb moment

These 5 simple habits could add years to your life

A brilliant Lego hack will solve one of the biggest problems with your phone

IBM: Quantencomputer werden bald jede Verschlüsselung knacken

Stunning first image sent back by NASA’s planet-hunter satellite

'PsychoTech' has arrived. But, is it a real Super-Power?

"House of the Future" Shows How VR and Robots Will Transform Homes in 2050

Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy

Researchers mine emergency contacts to discover genetic clues to disease

Your blood type might make you more likely to get traveler’s diarrhea

The books that inspired the world's top start-up investors

This Man Is the Godfather the AI Community Wants to Forget

Six Science-Backed Reasons Why Marijuana Causes Serious Harm

It takes a single autonomous car to prevent phantom traffic jams

Distinct neural mechanisms for reading Arabic vs verbal numbers: an ERP study

How to Make Money Doing (Almost) Nothing

The Potentially Scary Reason Why Airplanes Dim the Lights Before Takeoff

Google’s new tools will make your life more convenient - for a price

Four Tools For Lowering Anxiety In Any Situation So You Can Perform Better

Explain How to Fix Computer Problems Easier By Recording Your Screen

The First Known Injury From Hawaii's Volcano Eruption Has Been Reported

Making the most of our humanity - a IndieBio X Foresight Institute Salon

Billionaire Bunkers: Exclusive Look Inside the World's Largest Planned Doomsday Escape

Browsing The Internet at Work May Not Make You Less Productive, Says Study

Ten Foods to Never Eat If You Want to Live a Long Life

How to build your own spy kit

These Are The 8 Most Addictive Substances On The Planet

NASA Is About to Create The Coldest Temperature in The Universe, Using Lasers in Space

Home DNA Kit Test Didn't Recognize Sample Actually Came From A Dog

'Introvert Hangovers' Are a Thing. Here's The Best Way to Deal With Them

Managing Machine Learning Workflows with Scikit-learn Pipelines - Part 1: A Gentle Introduction

"Chimpanzee Choices" On Quiz Reveals That Our Worldview Is Overly And Erroneously Negative

Over a decade in the making

Motorless swimming robot powers ahead as the temperature rises

Nine Things That Are Scientifically Proven To Attract Women

Nine pitfalls of research misconduct

Transparent solar cells make any window generate energy

Which drug makers’ medicines are racking up bigger and bigger bills for Medicare and Medicaid?

Sunday, May 20, 2018

Did Google Fake Its Duplex AI Demo?

Researchers Played Classical Music To Crocodiles In An MRI Scanner

Intensive lifestyle change: It works, and it’s more than diet and exercise

Tesla Soon to Bring Servicing to Your Doorstep Through Your Phone

Why you made all those mistakes as a teenager

Upend atom! We’ve found a whole new way of doing chemistry

How tech bugs could be killing thousands in our hospitals

Bill Gates Shares His Memories of Donald Trump

The anticipation of something might make you happier than the actual event

Can a repeat of disastrous Ebola epidemic be averted this time?

How uncertainty could help a machine hold a more eloquent conversation

How to communicate digital transformation goals

A new world's extraordinary orbit points to Planet Nine

Google pushes artificial intelligence for upgraded news app

World's Largest 3D Printer is now Able to Print Giant Metal Objects

High levels of workplace exercise linked to early death

Europe Exposes Its Weakness to Russia and China in the Balkans

Forget the space race, the AI race is just beginning

How often to clean everything you own, from your toilet to your phone, according to science

Right-to-try bill headed for vote puts bigger burden on FDA to protect patients, Gottlieb says

Chemical controllers: How hormones influence your body and mind

Artificial Enzymes Use Light to Kill Bacteria

India is using facial-recognition to reunite missing children with their families

Longevity, the Greatest Investment Opportunity of All Time

What can be done to economically empower women in Africa?

A novel approach of human geroprotector discovery by targeting the converging subnetworks of aging and age-related diseases

Moderate to high intensity exercise does not slow cognitive decline in people with dementia

Meet Barbara McClintock, who used corn to decipher 'jumping genes'

Telegram: Neuer Kanal der Wahl für Cybercrime

How self-control can turn you from sedentary to a 100-mile marathon runner

No, Seriously, We May Finally Have a Drug to Beat the Common Cold

Eisman of ‘The Big Short’ Fame Recommends Shorting Deutsche Bank

Some people have no visual imagery

Hundreds of companies are competing for one of 10 slots in a new US drone project

The cause of all war boils down to sex and social status, according to a conflict expert who used to be in the British army

Six homemade herbicides: Kill the weeds without killing the Earth

Two Canadian Companies Are Merging in the Biggest Weed Deal Ever

Yes, Atlas is running, but please don’t panic

SI Redefinition

Here's What a Liver Looks Like When Years of Heavy Drinking Leads to Cirrhosis

Bras Make Breasts Sag, 15-Year Study Concludes

How Africa Is Building a $3 Trillion Free-Trade Future

Cryptocurrency Market Dropped $52 Billion in Blockchain Week, Factors and Trends

Who do you think you are? Four rules can help you know yourself

Irregular bedtimes could be damaging children's health and development

The grand delusion: Why nothing is as it seems

Cause of polycystic ovary syndrome discovered at last

SOSV’s Bill Liao: ‘Synthetic biology is as important as the discovery of fire’

Loneliness is a much more modern phenomenon than you might think

Earth's Magnetic Field Is Drifting Westward, and Nobody Knows Why

Cultural confusion: the shifting line between sane and ‘unsane’

Trusting your gut could be the most rational way to make decisions

How much money you have to earn to be considered rich in the biggest city in every state

The Next Deadly Pandemic Could Be Unlike Any Threats We Know, Say Experts

The Most Damaging Addictive Drugs Are Not The Ones You Think, Report Shows

How to Program Your Mind to Stop Buying Crap You Don’t Need

Mosquito spit may affect your immune system for days

Carnegie Mellon is set to offer the first undergrad AI degree in the US

Elon Musk emailed Tesla employees tips on how to be more productive — these are his 7 suggestions

Memory Transferred between Snails, Challenging Standard Theory of How the Brain Remembers

Ebola Is Back. Here's How The New Outbreak Is Different From 2014

Germany has come up with the best solution to single-use coffee cups

China's About to Give Global Finance the Chance of a Lifetime

Scientists Reverse Vascular Aging

Thousands of Swedish people are swapping ID cards for microchips

This is the importance of sleep on your mental health

France’s Richest Are Making Money Faster Than Everyone Else This Year

Will humans one day live forever?

AI program gets really good at navigation by developing a brain-like GPS system

This is why central banks shouldn't play cryptocurrencies at their own game

Brustkrebs: Osteoporose-Medikament für bessere Heilungschancen

How to turn used plastic bottles into skylights and street lamps

We need a new Operating System for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

FDA just approved the first drug to prevent migraines

The backlash that never happened: New data shows people actually increased their Facebook usage after the Cambridge Analytica scandal

India has an AI plan—but it’s a long way from catching up with China and the US

A fifth of humanity logs on to Facebook every day

GMO Yeast Are Delicious — But Will the Brewing Industry Catch On?

A high-fiber diet protects mice against the flu virus

Trump Admin Poised To Give Rural Whites A Carve-Out On Medicaid Work Rules

This Map Shows Just How Little We Know About Our Own Galaxy

CD36 initiates the secretory phenotype during the establishment of cellular senescence

Neural Lace and Deep Learning

Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses

How graphene and gold could help us test drugs and monitor cancer

Walmart has patented autonomous robot bees

Bees are first insects shown to understand the concept of zero

HSBC Says Trade Deal Shows Blockchain Viable for Trade Finance

How to Increase Your Happy Hormones Naturally to Remove Negativity from Your Life

Inflammatory foods are linked with higher colon cancer risk

Top 5: Tips for using AI in your business

Type 2 diabetes: Intermittent fasting may raise risk

The World Will Be Painted With Data

The next step in our relationship with robots might be chit chat

Interview with Artificial Intelligence and Speech Recognition Expert Prof. Frank Rudzicz

Inside the Large Hadron Collider

Receptor-Mediated Delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 Endonuclease for Cell-Type-Specific Gene Editing

New Sensor Discovery Has Implications for Brain Research

Scientists Have Identified The Physical Source of Anxiety in The Brain

Effortless thinking: The god-shaped hole in your brain

Deshalb sind manche Menschen besonders gewalttätig

Cortical drive and thalamic feed-forward inhibition control thalamic output synchrony during absence seizures

Robots Can Grow Humanoid Mini-Organs From Stem Cells Faster And Better Than People

Excitatory connections between the prelimbic and infralimbic medial prefrontal cortex show a role for the prelimbic cortex in fear extinction

Why the Discovery of Room-Temperature Superconductors Would Unleash Amazing Technologies

Green is the new black: Redesigning clothes to save the planet

The mostly complete chart of Neural Networks, explained

Structure of Telomerase with Telomeric DNA

Elon Musk Thinks Flying Cars Could 'Guillotine' People on The Ground

A pilot project for a new libertarian floating city will have 300 homes, its own government, and its own cryptocurrency

We have a pretty good idea of when humans will go extinct

A High School Kid From Oklahoma Just Made A Massive Breakthrough In Chemistry

Bioengineering strategies to accelerate stem cell therapeutics

The Gravitational Bohr Radius

Correcting Einstein’s calculation of the orbit of Mercury

Science Has Some Pretty Sad News About Girls And Math

How pancreatic cancer spreads after surgery

Unconventional superconductivity discovered in graphene bilayers

David Liu launches Beam Therapeutics to treat genetic diseases with CRISPR base editing

Two-Step Senescence-Focused Cancer Therapies

When water met iron deep inside the Earth, did it create conditions for life?

Saturday, May 19, 2018

This 22-Hour Training Bundle Will Teach You All About Arduino

Floating island will have own government, cryptocurrency, 300 houses

The fundamental nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel

Niacin for people with or without established cardiovascular disease

What we inherited from our bug-eating ancestors

Universal Vaccines Are the Future of Medicine

Here comes a more precise version of CRISPR

Why now doesn’t exist, and other strange facts about time

Three-year study found no relationship between methane concentrations in groundwater and proximity to natural gas wells

China is betting big on electromagnetic railguns and catapults

PNPT1 Release from Mitochondria during Apoptosis Triggers Decay of Poly(A) RNAs

Spermbots offer a promising new way to target cancer

Elevated homocysteine identified as metabolic risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases

IBM warns of instant breaking of encryption by quantum computers: 'Move your data today'

A soap-like synthetic aims to restore breath to injured lungs

The inside of a proton endures more pressure than anything else we’ve seen

Life in 2030: these are the 4 things experts can't predict

Shaping Synapses by the Neural Extracellular Matrix

Astroglial CB1 Receptors Determine Synaptic D-Serine Availability to Enable Recognition Memory

Half the world’s population is still offline. Here’s why that matters

A stealthy Harvard startup wants to reverse aging in dogs, and humans could be next

Origin of our species: Why humans were once so much more diverse

The WHO Just Declared War on The Single Most Dangerous Type of Fat

Embryogenesis and Adult Life in the Absence of Intrinsic Apoptosis Effectors BAX, BAK, and BOK

What we've learned about the nucleolus since you left school

Insect-size robots are breaking their tethers

Beijing lands nuclear bombers in the South China Sea in a clear sign that it's pushed out the US without firing a shot

Social Security is rapidly running out of money and few Americans are ready

AI Can't Reason Why

Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system

Physicists want to rebuild quantum theory from scratch

On ways to overcome the magical capacity limit of working memory

Baidu COO Lu Qi steps down in latest reshuffle at ‘China’s Google’

Is It Rational to Trust Your Gut Feelings?

The U.S. Army Is Turning to Robot Soldiers

This 'vending machine' dispenses free short stories

Unresolved endoplasmic reticulum stress engenders immune-resistant, latent pancreatic cancer metastases

ScienceAlert Deal: This Meditation App Uses Machine Learning to Help You De-Stress

This device pulls water from thin air

Antares Rocket Launch Early Monday Could Be Visible Along US East Coast

Moderate UV Exposure Enhances Learning and Memory by Promoting a Novel Glutamate Biosynthetic Pathway in the Brain

GABA, GABA, GABA, what does it actually do in the brain?

Why are we teaching AI and machines to become like humans

WSU research heads to International Space Station

Drones That Kill on Their Own: Will Artificial Intelligence Reach the Battlefield?

Brain inflammatory cascade controlled by gut-derived molecules

End of days: Is Western civilisation on the brink of collapse?

A Laser from a Space Ant

Inflammation: How to Cool the Fire Inside You That’s Making You Fat and Diseased

How Nature’s ‘Dislocations’ Occur

Seeing Inside of a Living Cell

Essay Contest: Advances of the new century

Investigating the Origins of Life

China's new forests will be the size of Ireland

Small Asteroid to Fly Between Earth and Moon Today

What is nirvana?

Bill Gates Says Trump Asked Him The Difference Between HIV And HPV

The next big discovery in astronomy?

How huge dinosaurs nested without crushing their eggs

High altitude may have driven short stature in Peruvians

Standort-Datenbank vieler US-Amerikaner gehackt

Diverse mechanisms for endogenous regeneration and repair in mammalian organs

Mittel gegen Metastasen entdeckt?

This week in science history: The mathematicians’ mathematician is born

Scientists Bring A Severed Brain Back To Life, Sparking Ethical Debate

How Geniuses Think

NASA confirms: In space, ‘reverse cowgirl’ and ‘doggystyle’ are the same thing

Friday, May 18, 2018

Multiverse theory cops a blow after dark energy findings

Schlafmangel tut der Psyche nicht gut

A lab director sets out fixes for the scientific ecosystem

How lab heads can learn to lead

Opinion: Reproducibility failures are essential to scientific inquiry

Are you in a sharing field? Survey breaks down researcher openness by discipline

Europe’s open-access drive escalates as university stand-offs spread

Hawaii volcano eruption holds clues to predicting similar events elsewhere

Enchained growth and cluster dislocation: a possible mechanism for microbiota homeostasis

Immunologin Emma Wetter Slack erhält Latsis-Preis der ETH Zürich

Emma Wetter-Slack - Winner of the ETH Zurich Latsis Prize 2017

Can a quantum drum vibrate and stand still at the same time?

25% of Dubai’s buildings will be 3D printed by 2025

The first wireless flying robotic insect takes off

Internal pressure of proton is measured for the first time

Schizophrenia affects your body, not just your brain – new study

Deeper understanding of quantum chaos may be the key to quantum computers

These lush 100-year-old drawings of the brain are still used by medical students

Mutmaßlicher Hacker der Hackergruppe „The Dark Overlord“ gefasst

Processes in the atomic microcosmos revealed

Brainy Hormones

Graphene and related two-dimensional materials: Structure-property relationships for electronics and optoelectronics

Contra Robert Shiller on Cryptocurrencies - Article by Adam Alonzi

Synopsis: Ten-Year Search Finds No Signs of Dark Matter Annihilation

South Korea: 10Gbps internet this year, download at 1GB/sec

Sex Differences in the Adult Human Brain: Evidence from 5216 UK Biobank Participants

Mortality in Acromegaly decreased in the last decade: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Gesellschaftliche Auswirkungen von künstlicher Intelligenz

In realen Zwickmühlen entscheiden wir anders

Princeton researchers crowdsource brain mapping with gamers, discover six new neuron types

How Shoddy Statistics Found A Home In Sports Research

Go beyond bias training

Health tips for research groups

Nine pitfalls of research misconduct

Discovery and Dynamical Analysis of an Extreme Trans-Neptunian Object with a High Orbital Inclination

Geoscience society rescinds award to top seismologist after ethics investigation

An unexpected and persistent increase in global emissions of ozone-depleting CFC-11

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Magnetic stimulation dampens brain response to drug cues in addiction

This device lets you talk to your computer - without saying a word

New Cytokine Network Can Repair Tissue Damage In The Intestine, Study Finds

Circadian Rhythm Disruptions Associated With Mood Disorders, Adverse Quality of Life

Student's Engineering Skills And Quick Thinking Saved A Man's Life Mid-Flight

Sind kluge Köpfe weniger stark vernetzt?

A quark-gluon plasma inspired model of the universe: Introduction and Inflation

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Twitter for Academics 101

This Armada of Saildrones Could Conquer the Ocean

Give every paper a read for reproducibility

Some hard numbers on science’s leadership problems

Lead pollution recorded in Greenland ice indicates European emissions tracked plagues, wars, and imperial expansion during antiquity

Europe is demolishing its dams to restore ecosystems

Biologists 'transfer' a memory

The transcriptomic and epigenetic map of vascular quiescence in the continuous lung endothelium

Computer-guided design of optimal microbial consortia for immune system modulation

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Blue sky research

What Is Consciousness?

As D.I.Y. Gene Editing Gains Popularity, ‘Someone Is Going to Get Hurt’

NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars to get a bird’s-eye view of the planet

As Twitter explodes, Eric Lander apologizes for toasting James Watson

Sacked Japanese biologist gets chance to retrain at Crick institute

Wikipedia’s top-cited scholarly articles — revealed

MIT Scientists prove adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children

'Cold Spot' Anomaly Billions of Light Year Across

Measuring Scientific Broadness

Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

Britische Großbank HSBC wickelt erstmals Handelsgeschäft per Blockchain ab

Four Lessons for Silicon Valley from Its First Startup

Apple Jumping On the Virtual Reality Train By Bringing an 8K VR Goggle

A Chemist Shines Light on a Surprising Prime Number Pattern

Challenging local realism with human choices

Canonical Microcircuits for Predictive Coding

To make medicines of the future, hospitals build their own cell factories

Monday, May 14, 2018

Luck of the draw

Ruth S. Nussenzweig (1928–2018)

Blood, sweat and tears in biotech — the Theranos story

Final donation for man whose blood helped save 2.4 million babies

The New Ebola Outbreak Could Take 'Three, Maybe Four' Months to Control

Scientists to grow 'mini-brains' using Neanderthal DNA

Why Korea Can’t Replicate Germany’s Reunification

Sunday, May 13, 2018

Cancer treatment changes cancer cells into normal ones

Saturday, May 12, 2018

Oracle plant für Juni eigene Blockchain-Produkte

U of L contributes to roadmap for enhancing human resistance to radiation for life in space

Feynman the joker

Successful Neural Stem Cell Therapy Without Immunosuppression

Robot U: The First American A.I. Undergrad Program is Here, and Already Incredibly Elite

Light could make semiconductor computers a million times faster or even go quantum

Can A Cocktail Of Vitamins And Steroids Cure A Major Killer In Hospitals?

Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal

Leading Scientist Warns There's An Apocalypse Coming

Could Illnesses Become 'Optional'?

Per Online-Tool dem BND die Metadatenspeicherung untersagen

Move over, CRISPR: MAGESTIC makes for gentler gene-editing

On life extension and risk aversion

SIRIN LABS Unveils Specs For The World’s First Blockchain Smartphone

This week in science history: The woman who found hydrogen in the stars is born

A look inside Feynman’s calculus notebook

European AI Startups: Apply now for a chance to win $100,000 and an AI Supercomputer

Powering the Robotic Future

Five Space Companies Zeroing in on First Launch of Tourists Into Orbit and Beyond

Early Time-Restricted Feeding Improves Insulin Sensitivity, Blood Pressure, and Oxidative Stress

Deep Learning with Ensembles of Neocortical Microcircuits - Dr. Blake Richards

Sex robots are coming. We might even fall in love with them

Senators Have a New Plan to Expand Indefinite Detention and Endless Global War

The Complete History of SiliconGraphics (1982 - 2009)

Cornell Student Strips to Her Underwear to Present Thesis After Professor Questions Her Outfit

Quantum information and Quantum gravity

Researchers hide information in plain text

Holograms Can Now Program Brain Activity - Are Fake Experiences Next?

Pretty sure Google's new talking AI just beat the Turing test

Lab-grown Meat and Veganism Movements Surge in Response to Climate Change

Dear Dr B: Should I study string theory?

Why Do Men Exist?

MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump

The Robots Running This Way

People are freaking out about Google’s extremely human-sounding phone-call-making AI

The Future of BattleBots Is Smarter, More Vicious

How artificial intelligence is shaping religion in the 21st century

Friday, May 11, 2018

Paying a visit to Pluto, how to tell causation from correlation, and the magic of milk: Books in brief

Richard Feynman at 100

What to do to improve postgraduate mental health

Feeling overwhelmed by academia? You are not alone

How to handle the dark days of depression

I’d whisper to my student self: you are not alone

Write fiction to discover something new in your research

Inside the Secret Cities That Created the Atomic Bomb

How robots are grasping the art of gripping

Rats driven from South Georgia's wildlife paradise

Ground Zero of Amphibian 'Apocalypse' Finally Found

Radar reveals North Korea’s nuclear test moved a mountain

Biggest Test Yet Shows Einstein Was Wrong About 'Spooky Action at a Distance'

Google Just Launched A New Operating System

The scientist still fighting for the clean fuel the world forgot

F.D.A. Moves to Stop Rogue Clinics From Using Unapproved Stem Cell Therapies

‘Wild West’ Ohio Beckons Self-Driving Cars Even After Uber Death

Senate Democrats force vote to reinstate net neutrality

Mouth Sensor Can Measure the Salt in Every Potato Chip You Eat

Inside Waymo's Strategy to grow the Best Brains for Self-Driving Cars

The oldest virus ever found is an STI

California’s rooftop solar rule is a pricey path to emissions reductions

U.K. Signs a Deal with Amazon to Test Delivery Drones

Zipline launches the world’s fastest commercial delivery drone

U.S. drone program taps Apple, passes over Amazon, China's DJI

Drone Innovation May Finally Take Off in America

Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in artificial agents

Inspecting Algorithms for Bias

The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI

The Last Days of the Blue-Blood Harvest

A Beginner’s Guide for Addressing Sexual Harassment in Academia

When will clinical trials finally reflect diversity?

Precipitation whiplash and climate change threaten California’s freshwater

In Ancient Skeletons, Scientists Discover a Modern Foe: Hepatitis B

Arctic Heat Surges Again, and Studies Are Finding Climate Change Connections

AI recreates activity patterns that brain cells use in navigation

In a first, you'll be able to major in artificial intelligence at CMU

AI program gets really good at navigation by developing a brain-like GPS system

The Future of Fishing Is Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

Here’s how the US needs to prepare for the age of artificial intelligence

The president of France is promoting AI, European style

China wants to shape the global future of artificial intelligence

The White House says a new AI task force will protect workers and keep America first

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Linking time-series of single-molecule experiments with molecular dynamics simulations by machine learning

New Google AI Division Differs From Microsoft AI Approach

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Jiří Drahoš: the Czech chemist overwhelmed by fake news

Scholars Have Data on Millions of Facebook Users. Who’s Guarding It?

The truth about Hans Asperger’s Nazi collusion

I’d whisper to my student self: you are not alone

When the sun dies it will turn into a bright dust ring for 10,000 years

How do you draw the line between volunteer work and unpaid labour?

Particle physicists turn to AI to cope with CERN’s collision deluge

Cancer-killing viruses show promise — and draw billion-dollar investment

Academic Establishment Suppresses Italian Anthropologist’s Proof That Race IQ Differences Are Genetic - for Now

Study Might Suggest Cannabis Could Be A Viable Treatment For Symptoms Of Crohn’s Disease

The average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant

Being Creative Increases Your Risk Of Schizophrenia By 90 Percent

Friday, May 4, 2018

Ancient Water Purifying Technology Increases Efficiency in the Present

How ‘Valleytronics’ Could Help Keep Moore’s Law Alive

Where colour comes from, the secret lives of fish and growth in democracies: Books in brief

The forgotten founder of ornithology

Six Things Successful Women in STEM Have in Common

From academia to Silicon Valley — and back

Harassment and discrimination allegations roil a top US biomedical institute

Scientists downsize bold plan to make human genome from scratch

India culls 4,305 dubious journals from approved list

Yellowstone's grizzlies under threat from controversial hunting proposal

€100-billion budget proposed for Europe’s next big research programme

Water filter inspired by Alan Turing passes first test

Scientists pinpoint neural interactions that are necessary for observational learning

People can tell if you're rich or poor just by looking at your face

Pilot Study Validates Artificial Intelligence to Help Predict School Violence

Human intestine on-a-chip: state-of-the-art and into the future

Stock photos of scientists reveal that science is mostly about staring

The universe is out of balance and nobody knows why

ScienceAlert Deal: Build Your Own Games With Lifetime Access to The School of Game Design

Your 'Drunk Self' May Actually Be The Real You, According To Scientists

New study links gray hair with immune system activity and viral infection

Sharp rise in aggressive brain cancer is linked to mobile phones with cases more than doubling over two decades

Maths researchers find the rules that govern how cells work

Dr. Aubrey De Grey: You have your Lambo Crypto but still going to die - How to solve aging

h-channels contribute to divergent electrophysiological properties of supragranular pyramidal neurons in human versus mouse cerebral cortex

NASA Just Tested A New Nuclear Fission Reactor, And The Results Were Incredible

Thursday, May 3, 2018

Close the gender gap in Chinese science

Billionaires, butterflies and brooding skies — April’s top science images

NIH seeks health data of 1 million people, with genetic privacy suddenly an issue

Nature announces new editor-in-chief

Astronomers spot helium on exoplanet for first time

Bill Gates to donate $12 million to fund research for universal flu vaccine

Biohacker, CEO of Ascendence Biomedical Aaron Traywick Found Dead in DC

Renowned Biohacker Who Injected Himself With Untested Herpes Treatment Has Been Found Dead

Smart people literally have bigger brain cells than the rest

Facebook announces dating feature for meeting non-friends

Women retain and carry living DNA from every man with whom they’ve made love with

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air

Extreme mobility of mantis shrimp eyes

Microbes living in a toxic volcanic lake could hold clues to life on Mars

Taming the multiverse: Stephen Hawking’s final theory about the big bang

Scientists now can observe how cells move inside the human body

Looking in the Wrong Places

How Oman’s Rocks Could Help Save the Planet

The dying scientist and his rogue vaccine trial

After the violence

California, 17 other states sue Trump administration to defend Obama-era climate rules for vehicles

Air pollution blamed for 7m deaths every year worldwide

Thwaites Glacier: Biggest ever Antarctic field campaign

Scientists downsize bold plan to make human genome from scratch

When walking makes your legs hurt

Trump Did NOT Convince Kim to Ditch His Nukes. China Did

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

The Virus That Causes Mono Linked To Seven Autoimmune Diseases

Cargospeed: How 1000 km/h Hyperloop technology could supercharge freight delivery

Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers

The ambitious plan to build a city of floating pyramids

City upbringing, without pets, boosts vulnerability to mental illness

Russia Has Launched a Floating Nuclear Power Plant Critics Are Calling "Nuclear Titanic"

Harvard scientists say these 5 things can prolong your life by a decade

Neuroscientists Have Followed a Thought as It Moves Through The Brain

World Subway Map Shows What a Hyperloop-Powered Future May Look Like