Science & Technology

Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Are About to Fly Free in Africa 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 6, 2018
AN AFRICAN FIRST. A tiny nation in Africa is ready to take a big biotech gamble.

By David Aragorn
Scientists identify a new kind of human brain cell 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 30, 2018
‘Rosehip’ neurons not found in rodents, may be involved in fine-level control between regions of the human brain

By David Aragorn
Do you dare enter a fairy ring? The mythical mushroom portals of the supernatural 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 30, 2018
For thousands of years, the sudden appearance of a ring of mushrooms was a sure sign of otherworldly presences. These rings would seemingly appear overnight, or travel from one location to another, with no clear rhyme or reason. Warnings of the dark forces that must create these abnormalities were passed down between generations, and the

By David Aragorn
Pentagon fires a warning shot against EPA’s ‘secret science’ rule 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 30, 2018
Add the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to the ranks of those expressing concern about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) plans to restrict the use of scientific research in writing new regulations.

By David Aragorn
Time travel ‘mathematically’ POSSIBLE and THIS is how 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 29, 2018
TIME travel is mathematically possible, according to research which could make the realm of science fiction a reality.

By David Aragorn
Researchers 3D print prototype for ‘bionic eye’0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 29, 2018
A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota have, for the first time, fully 3D printed an array of light receptors on a hemispherical surface. This discovery marks a significant step toward creating a “bionic eye” that could someday help blind people see or sighted people see better.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid Billiards: This Wild Idea to Protect Earth Just Might Work 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- August 29, 2018
Protecting Earth from dangerous space rocks might require a little asteroid-on-asteroid violence.

By David Aragorn
Buildings made from fungi? Meet London’s pop-up bio-lab innovators 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 28, 2018
A shipping container complex in a Shepherd’s Bush market is the unlikely home to a community of startup research projects

By David Aragorn
Extinct Cave Bear DNA Found in Living Bears 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 28, 2018
The discovery is the first of its kind outside the human lineage.

By David Aragorn
Laser breakthrough has physicists close to cooling down antimatter 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 28, 2018
For the first time, physicists at CERN have observed a benchmark atomic energy transition in anithydrogen, a major step toward cooling and manipulating the basic form of antimatter.

By David Aragorn