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08.15.
2019

Scientists Made A Real-Life Flux Capacitor

Great Scott!

08.14.
2019

DeepMind’s Losses and the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Alphabet’s DeepMind lost $572 million last year. What does it mean?

08.14.
2019

UN Warning: Food Is Going to Get Really, Really Expensive

But there are ways to avoid this future food crisis.

08.14.
2019

The ‘lungs of the planet’ are in danger of reaching a tipping point that could turn the Amazon rainforest into a savannah

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has broken records in July. Scientists warn that, after a point, the Amazon might not be able to recover.

08.14.
2019

The HumanCar — The Gadget Show #FuelFriday

Polly takes a trip to Oregon USA to meet up with Charles Greenwood and take a spin in his human powered car.

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08.13.
2019

Why aren’t rainbows blurred-out into nothing after they are produced?

I understand how a prism works and how a single raindrop can scatter white light into a rainbow, but it seems to me that in normal atmospheric conditions, we should not be able to see rainbows.

When multiple raindrops are side-by-side, their emitted spectra will overlap. An observer at X will see light re-mixed from various originating raindrops. The volume of rain producing a rainbow typically has an angular diameter at least as wide as the rainbow itself, does it not?

08.12.
2019

Pedophile Confesses to Killing JonBenet Ramsey in Letters to Friend

In a series of letters, former suspect Gary Oliva reportedly told his friend that her death was “an accident,” but he saw it happen.

08.12.
2019

Simulation Theory “May Cause the Annihilation of our Universe.”

Trying to prove simulation theory could invalidate whatever experiment our universe is being used for.

08.12.
2019

Simson Garfinkel: “Automated Digital Forensics”

CRCS Lunch Seminar Date: Monday, October 18, 2010Time: 11:30am – 1:00pmPlace: Maxwell Dworkin 119 Speaker: Simson Garfinkel, Naval Postgraduate School Title: Automated Digital Forensics.

08.12.
2019

Incredible Stanford study discovers thousands of novel proteins produced by human microbiome

A remarkable new study from scientists at Stanford University has revealed thousands of previously undiscovered small proteins produced by bacteria in the human microbiome. Almost all of these newly described proteins serve unknown functions in the human body and the researchers suggest their discovery opens up a new frontier for future therapeutic drug development.