Science & Technology

Never-Before-Seen Mineral Found Inside a ‘Super Deep’ Diamond 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 14, 2018
The find can tell scientists how ocean crust is recycled throughout Earth’s interior.

By David Aragorn
NASA astronaut who spent a year in space now has different DNA from his twin 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 13, 2018
Space travel is dangerous for a lot of very obvious reasons — traveling off of Earth on a rocket has its risks, after all — but even when everything goes well it seems that a brief stay in space has the potential to alter a person’s very DNA.

By David Aragorn
Why does evolution sometimes repeat itself? Spider-eating spiders may hold the answer 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 13, 2018
Discovering something for the second time might sound like a letdown. Not for ecologists in Hawaii, who have found that spider-eating spiders on four islands there independently evolved the same colors: gold, black, and white. This rare example of parallel evolution, which has also been seen in one other Hawaiian spider, could help clarify one of biology’s biggest mysteries: how and when evolution repeats itself.

By David Aragorn
The Man Who Blew The Lid off of AREA 51 Shows off His “Water Powered Car”0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 12, 2018
Decades ago, when an individual claimed to work at a military facility that required top level security clearance and spoke about classified military secrets and technology, they were ridiculed. This is why, in some cases, they were allowed to speak and share sensitive information, because most of it was so unbelievable and easy to ridicule that, instead of the world of secrecy retaliating, they let these individuals speak their mind.

By David Aragorn
The first ‘real’ flying car? £400,000 production-ready Pal-V that can hit 112mph on land AND in the air is unveiled in Geneva 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 11, 2018
A production version of the world’s first ‘real’ flying car has been unveiled at a motor show in Geneva.

By David Aragorn
Mark Twain was right: fake news spreads far more rapidly than the genuine article 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 11, 2018
It is said that a lie will travel around the world while the truth is pulling on its boots, and now scientists have proven that it is true.

By David Aragorn
Fake news spreads faster than true news on Twitter—thanks to people, not bots 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 9, 2018
Tweets containing false news (depicted in orange in this data visualization) spread to more people through Twitter than tweets containing true news (teal)

By David Aragorn
Where Zika Came From 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 9, 2018
Early cases of the virus were different from those today.

By David Aragorn
How do nerve agents work? The science behind ‘some of the most dangerous things that humans have ever made’0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 9, 2018
The complex poisons force the body to shut down in swift and intense ways

By David Aragorn
Pockets of water may lay deep below Earth’s surface 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 8, 2018
New evidence of water pockets has been found hundreds of kilometers deep inside our planet

By David Aragorn