Technology

Murphy’s Law: CIA Director’s Personal Emails Hacked by Teenager, Published on Wikileaks

You can’t make this stuff up! The only solace, perhaps, is to acknowledge even the high and mighty are vulnerable to the laws of nature, including Murphy’s Law. It simply doesn’t matter that they have…

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The Chinese Thunder God Vine is Unbelievably Potent in Killing Cancer

A Chinese plant, known by the truly bizarre name of ‘thunder god vine’ or lei gong teng, has been used for ages in traditional Chinese medicine for treatment of a number of medical conditions. Now, new research at…

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Flying Car & Sky Commuting: Cutting Commute Times Dramatically

Imagine cutting your daily commuting time from 1 hour to 15 minutes with an autonomous or semi-autonomous flying car! New technologies such as extremely accurate GPS are making science fiction ideas a practical possibility in the…

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MIT Data Science Machines Showing Humanlike Intuition

That humans will be woefully inadequate against smart data science machines, in at least some areas of inquiry and analysis, is already a foregone conclusion. But the way in which machines are outperforming humans changes…

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World Food Day 2015: Zero Hunger for World’s 800 Million Undernourished by 2030

A Goal of Zero Hunger by 2030 The United Nations celebrated its 32nd annual World Food Day on October 16, 2015, in Rho, near Milan, Italy. The event focused on helping combat hunger and malnutrition that…

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A Huge Global Marketplace Awaits New Suppliers of Nanomaterials

Improving Material Chemistries If humans are to do what they dream of doing – building mile-high towers, riding space elevators, traveling to Mars, flying from New York to Tokyo in two hours, and more –…

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Apple Will Soon Be Launching Its Tiniest Gadget…The iRing

Apple is flexing its muscles again in the trillion-dollar smartphone market with innovative products. In fact, Apple’s knack for developing smart devices has left other tech companies scratching their heads. Apple has applied for the…

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Have Humans Driven Earth Into a New Geological Epoch?

Marking a Fundamental Change in the Human Relationship with Earth Geochronology and geological epochs unfold over millennia, dividing Earth’s history into theme-based time periods in which the planet’s strata show the effects of a particular time…

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Soldier’s Cyber Rifle Easily Disables a Drone Using No Bullets at All

Believe it or not, hunting drones is already a thing for some people who own a shotgun or rifle and have some free time on their hands. However, the US Army wants a little more…

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2015 Nikon Small World Photography Prize Winners Announced

Last week, Nikon Instruments Inc. announced its top photomicrography (photographic excellence using a microscope) winners for 2015 in its annual global competition focused on art and science, an event that has been held since 1974.…

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