Science & Technology

New findings have physicists questioning reality 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 30, 2017
Physicists at CERN are working to determine why the equal amounts of matter and antimatter in the universe haven’t annihilated each other.

By David Aragorn
Physicists Just Found a Loophole in Graphene That Could Unlock Clean, Limitless Energy 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 30, 2017
By all measures, graphene shouldn’t exist. The fact it does comes down to a neat loophole in physics that sees an impossible 2D sheet of atoms act like a solid 3D material.

By David Aragorn
Flu Vaccine Study Results Are Not Good 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 29, 2017
A JAMA study has found that the flu vaccine, taken by 60% of people over 65-years-old, may be killing a significant number of senior citizens.

By David Aragorn
Antarctic glacier’s rough belly exposed 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 28, 2017
The melting Antarctic ice stream that is currently adding most to sea-level rise may be more resilient to change than previously recognised.

By David Aragorn
Understanding Einstein’s Special Relativity will change your life forever: the future already exists!0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 27, 2017
Our everyday knowledge of time is that only the present ‘now’ exists. Everything that exists ‘now’ is contained in our present world (three-dimensional space). Events of the past and the future do not exist at all. The past is gone, the future not existing yet. Only the present exists. This is called presentism.

By David Aragorn
Different types of alcohol elicit different emotional responses 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 24, 2017
Spirits most frequently associated with feelings of aggression, international survey shows

By David Aragorn
Hand Sanitizer Alters the Results of Breathalyzer Tests in New Experiment 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 23, 2017
If a police officer pulls you over for driving while intoxicated, you could be brought in for a breath alcohol test. If that happens, you’d better hope the test operator doesn’t slather their hands in an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, first.

By David Aragorn
Everything you ever wanted to know about perovskite, Earth’s most abundant type of mineral—that we almost never see 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 23, 2017
From silicates to semiconductors, here’s why one crystal structure is so prevalent in modern research.

By David Aragorn
The Hydroponic, Robotic Future of Farming in Greenhouses 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 23, 2017
When you think of automation, you probably think of the assembly line, a dramatic dance of robot arms with nary a human laborer in sight. But that’s child’s play. The grandest, most disruptive automation revolution has played out in agriculture. First with horses and plows, and eventually with burly combines—technologies that have made farming exponentially cheaper and more productive. Just consider that in 1790, farmers made up 90 percent of the US workforce. In 2012, it was 1.5 percent, yet America still eats.

By David Aragorn
Scientists discover most blue whales are ‘right-handed’ — except when they swim upward 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 22, 2017
A team of scientists that used motion-sensing tags to track the movements of more than five dozen blue whales off the California coast discovered that most have a lateralization bias – in other words, they essentially are “right-handed” or “left-handed.”

By David Aragorn