How a Twitter-bot can stop harassment: a study in social programming
Washington Post checks the results from a NYU researcher’s experiment using bots to prevent racial harassment on Twitter – and what automated anti-racism says about […]
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Insect biobots are ready to respond to disasters.
Science Daily reports on the cybernetic insects that can be used alongside drones to quickly map out unfamiliar terrain: “The idea would be to release […]
Young people’s blood plasma rejuvenates old mice.
New Scientist has an anti-aging discovery with some grisly ramifications, as researchers find the blood of human teens can make aging bodies young again: The […]
China’s used CRISPR in human subjects, to treat cancer.
Nature reports on gene-editing technology that’s being used for the first time in human beings: On 28 October, a team led by oncologist Lu You […]
Spain’s “King of Coal” jailed for destroying Neolithic site.
The Telegraph reports on multimillionaire mine-operator Victorino Alonso’s demolition of a 10,000-year-old archaeological site, an act courts have described as a “crime against heritage”: The […]
Science Art: 16-Foot Transonic Tunnel, 1990
Click to embiggen This might look like a jet plane’s engine, but it’s really a thing to test jet planes – supersonic ones. It’s a […]
GMO mosquitoes will fly. Probably.
Just a short note (from a Fusion story), but one kind of overlooked story from election day is that the Florida Keys approved releasing genetically […]
So ISIS is using homemade drones. Here’s how they work.
Popular Science looks at the the backyard engineering that goes into an effective homemade military drone: To better understand ISIS drones, I spoke with an […]
Science Art: Schéma de montage d’un turbopropulseur by Nerijp
This is a turbine – a “turbopropulseur” – used as an example of a “réducteur” – a reducing gear. The one end spins a lot […]
World Power: How Africa can leapfrog the world with renewable energy.
Nature looks into the future of Africa and sees a sunny outlook – at least as far as solar and wind power generation go: Africa’s […]
Caveman jewelry: Ostrich eggs in Siberia?
Siberian Times looks at the things that people thought were precious before people were Homo sapiens – a trove of Denisovan jewelry made from such […]
Florida Keys voting on genetically-modified mosquito plan.
FiveThirtyEight Science has an in-depth article on a genetic reponse to the Zika threat and the scientific stakes of ballots cast in Florida’s southernmost county: […]
Science Art: Trilobites (Sketch Pad), by Manchestersciart
Click to embiggen Prehistoric life, today’s exercises. From Life in Retrograde, via ScientificIllustration.tumblr.com.
“This misshapen pebble is actually the first ever dinosaur brain fossil ever found.”
Vox takes a close look at a fossilized iguanodon brain: On a dark winter night in 2004, Jamie Hiscocks spotted an odd-shaped stone on a […]
Zika is an American disease now.
NPR reports that the mosquito-borne illness is probably here to stay: So far, local officials in Miami have successfully cleared just one zone of local […]