We still don’t fully understand how the bacteria inside us affect our healthSteve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library IBM has announced plans to study the human microbiome and its role in autoimmune diseases. We still don’t fully understand how the bacteria inside us affect our health. IBM plans to find out more […]
Daily Archives: August 23, 2017
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No time soonDavid Howells/Corbis via Getty Images By Leah Crane NASA wants you to know it is on a Journey to Mars. For the last few years, the space agency has done everything it can to work those three words into press releases, public statements and YouTube videos. Nearly all […]
Your Gmail photos could soon be held in cold storageGoogle By Matt Reynolds The best way to put your photos on ice is to freeze them. Extremely cold molecules could soon hold hundreds of times more data than existing hard drives. By controlling the magnetism of individual molecules, Nick Chilton […]
Reach for the moon – but no rushMoon Express THE deadline for the Google Lunar X Prize has been pushed back once again, from the end of 2017 to 31 March 2018. The competition offers $30 million to the first privately funded venture to land a spacecraft on the moon. […]
DNA in all organisms from yeast to humans encodes the genes that make it possible to live and reproduce. But these beneficial genes make up only 2% of our DNA. Now researchers have unveiled a novel mechanism for gene expression.
A father and son team from New York City has been busted for allegedly using the so-called “dark web” to sell potentially deadly fentanyl and oxycodone. Using the vendor name Zane61, Michael Luciano and his son Phillip allegedly set up shop in “a place where some criminals think they can […]
Samsung and its wireless partners will begin taking preorders for the Note 8 on August 24, with shipments expected to arrive on September 15. Orders open up at 12:01 a.m. EST. Below is a list of various carriers and retail locations you can preorder Samsung’s latest and greatest phone. Direct […]
Physicists have described how observations of gravitational waves limit the possible explanations for the formation of black holes outside of our galaxy; either they are spinning more slowly than black holes in our own galaxy or they spin rapidly but are ‘tumbled around’ with spins randomly oriented to their orbit.