Science & Technology

Great Barrier Reef: Unesco opts against ‘in danger’ status 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 7, 2017
Unesco has decided not to place the Great Barrier Reef on its official list of World Heritage sites “in danger”.

By David Aragorn
Living dolls: Spanish firm makes eerily realistic human, alien babies 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 7, 2017
A Babyclon Animatronic baby is displayed at the Bilbao Reborn Doll Show, a trade fair featuring hyperrealist silicone and vinyl babies, known as ‘Reborns’, in Bilbao, northern Spain June 11, 2017.

By David Aragorn
Geely’s Volvo to go all electric with new models from 2019 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 6, 2017
All Volvo car models launched after 2019 will be electric or hybrids, the Chinese-owned company said on Wednesday, making it the first major traditional automaker to set a date for phasing out vehicles powered solely by the internal combustion engine.

By David Aragorn
SPAM is 80 today – this is what the name actually stands for 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 6, 2017
The new official acronym for SPAM is absolutely bizarre

By David Aragorn
A robotic doctor is gearing up for action 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 5, 2017
A robotic doctor that can be controlled hundreds of kilometres away by a human counterpart is gearing up for action.

By David Aragorn
An Advanced AI Has Been Deployed to Fight Against Hackers 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 4, 2017
CERN and the Large Hadron Collider depend on a massive computer grid, as does the global network of scientists who use LHC data. CERN scientists are now teaching an AI system to protect the grid from cyber threats using machine learning.

By David Aragorn
NASA Is Figuring Out How to Use AI to Build Autonomous Space Probes 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- June 30, 2017
Who needs humans?

By David Aragorn
How Close Are We to Successfully Cloning the First Human?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 29, 2017
When Will We Clone a Human?

By David Aragorn
Deceleration of runaway electrons paves the way for fusion power 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 27, 2017
Although the vacuum chamber in the British fusion reactor JET has a wall made of solid metal, it can melt if it gets hit by a beam of runaway electrons. It is these runaway elementary particles that doctoral students Linnea Hesslow and Ola Embréus have successfully identified and decelerated.

By David Aragorn
‘Liquid Light’ Can Bend Around Objects in a Frictionless Flow 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 27, 2017
Scientists discover that light, under certain conditions, can move around objects like a frictionless liquid, which could help improve a wide array of devices like lasers and solar panels.

By David Aragorn