Science

The Internet Has Made Americans More Casual About Religion

Contrary to what you might assume after hate-browsing Facebook, it seems the internet may have actually made people less dogmatic about religion. A recent study published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion has found evidence that the more we use the internet, the less likely we are to have a specific religious…

Tech News Ed Cara Jan 18

The First US Human CRISPR Trials Could Start Any Day Now

The first U.S. human trial using CRISPR to treat disease could kick off any day now. The trial, led by the University of Pennsylvania, will use the gene-editing tool to modify immune cells, prompting them to attack three different types of cancer. The MIT Tech Review spotted that the University of Pennsylvania this week posted…

Biology Kristen V. Brown Jan 18

Sunken Tanker Spawns Four Giant Oil Spills in East China Sea

It’s been four days since the Sanchi Iranian oil tanker sank in the East China Sea, and officials are carefully monitoring the ensuing spill, which has now spread into four distinct slicks. The toxic spill now encompasses an area 40 square miles in size, threatening local marine wildlife and the coasts of Japan and South…

Tech News George Dvorsky Jan 18

These Companies Want You to Sell Your DNA on the Internet

In October 2017, Vadim Pushkarev, a Moscow-based lawyer, uploaded his genetic code to a new service called Zenome that promised him more than just information about his ancestry. This company was offering cryptocurrency. “23andMe sells your data to other companies,” Pushkarev told me. So, he reasoned, why shouldn’t he sell his? Zenome’s pitch is this:…

Biology Kristen V. Brown Jan 18

Study With One-Word Abstract Finds Moon Phases Don’t Predict Earthquakes

It’s not often that science can answer questions with an easy “yes” or “no.” Usually it’s more of an “evidence suggests” or “this correlation proposes” sort of situation, even if the public’s understanding is generally a little less nuanced. So USGS Seismologist Susan Hough found the right question: “Do large (magnitude ≥ 8) global earthquakes…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jan 18

New AI System Predicts How Long Patients Will Live With Startling Accuracy

By using an artificially intelligent algorithm to predict patient mortality, a research team from Stanford University is hoping to improve the timing of end-of-life care for critically ill patients. In tests, the system proved eerily accurate, correctly predicting mortality outcomes in 90 percent of cases. But while the system is able to predict when a…

Health George Dvorsky Jan 18

Here’s Why 200,000 Saiga Antelope Dropped Dead in Kazakhstan in 2015

A strange animal mystery captivated the internet back in 2015: 200,000 critically endangered saiga antelopes in Kazakhstan died from internal bleeding after infections. Surreal photographs showed hundreds of dead antelopes that appeared to have simply dropped dead where they stood as a herd. Some researchers now have an update on that story. Following the die…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jan 17

Social Media Giants Assure Senators They Totally Have This Terrorism and Propaganda Thing Under Control

Representatives for Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube trekked up to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to let senators know how their personal war on terrorism is going. It turns out that things are going well, thanks for asking. “We think we’re better prepared for this election than we’ve ever been,” Carlos Monje, Twitter’s director of public policy…

Tech News Rhett Jones Jan 17

Just Get The Damn Flu Shot

The flu tends to be the leaky basement pipe of disease: It’s easy enough to avoid doing something about it, right up until the point it completely bursts and ruins your month. But the flu is much more deadly than a flooded basement. Even at its weakest in recent years, the virus killed at least…

Health Ed Cara Jan 17

Divers in Mexico Have Discovered the World’s Largest Flooded Cave

The Yucatan Peninsula is renowned for its extensive network of submerged tunnels and caves. Now, after searching for near two decades, divers with the Gran Acuífero Maya project have proven that two massive caverns are connected, making it the largest known flooded cave on Earth. The low-altitude, limestone-laden expanse of the Yucatan peninsula is the…

Tech News George Dvorsky Jan 17

Silicon Valley Is Ready to Spend Millions More on Its Anti-Aging Obsession

This month, the famed Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator put out a call for companies working to “help people live healthier for longer.” If you’re a scientist or entrepreneur who wants to increase human longevity and “healthspan,” Y Combinator will give you up to $1 million to do it. “Think of this as treating…

Health Kristen V. Brown Jan 17

New Research Could Help Bring Secure Quantum Communication to Everyone

In September, the Chinese Academy of Sciences president Chunli Bai, and President Anton Zeilinger of the Austria Academy of Sciences in Vienna, made the first quantum-secured video call. But when will you get to take part in this? Will there ever be a secure quantum Slack at your workplace? A team of researchers in the…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jan 17

Here’s Why Most Animals Don’t Use Their Tails as Weapons

Humans tend to rely on crafted tools in order to harm one another, but most other species have evolved weapons right on their bodies. Normally, these bashers, spikes, and other instruments of attack appear on heads or limbs. But only rarely do they end up on tails—and scientists want to know why The tail might…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jan 17

This Giant Fireball Over Michigan Was Visible From Six States and Canada

The National Weather Service says that the most likely explanation for an object which sent out illumination and a sonic boom throughout southwest Michigan, five other states, and Canada on Tuesday night was the breakup of a meteor, WXYZ reported. The American Meteor Society collected at least 200 reports of the incident, which for around…

Sploid Tom McKay Jan 16

Almost Everyone on the National Park System Advisory Board Quits in Protest of Ryan Zinke

Nine out of 12 sitting members of the Department of the Interior’s National Park System Advisory Board resigned on Monday in protest of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who is very fond of having subordinates fly flags in his honor and hang dead animals in his office but apparently not meeting with them. Per the Washington…

Tech News Tom McKay Jan 16

Millions of Migrating Baby Crabs Are an Absolutely Bonkers Sight to Behold

Each year, newborn crabs make the perilous trek from the sea shore to the forests of Christmas Island. This year was no exception, as new video taken of the migration makes abundantly clear. Around a week ago, the baby crabs began to emerge from the Indonesian ocean. Numbering in the millions, and seeming more like…

Biology George Dvorsky Jan 16

Why CRISPR-Edited Food May Be in Supermarkets Sooner Than You Think

In September, the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave the green light to a version of the plant Camelina sativa, an important oilseed crop that had been genetically engineered using CRISPR to produce enhanced omega-3 oil. What was interesting about this approval was that the USDA did not ask that the inventors of the plant endure…

Biology Kristen V. Brown Jan 16

There Are So Many Flu Victims, California Hospitals Are Setting Up Emergency Tents in Their Parking Lots

A flu strain called H3N2 has sent thousands to emergency rooms in California—so many that hospitals are erecting tents to accommodate the all the extra patients, reports the LA Times. Check out this picture from Fox 5 San Diego reporter Jamie Chambers: And this, from LA Times reporter Soumya Karlamangla: But it’s not just California…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jan 16

Scientists Create Miniature Gamma Ray Bursts to Study Black Holes

Sometimes, if you want to understand the amazing things that happen in space, you have to make sense of them in a lab on Earth, first. Scientists are attempting to model some of the most powerful explosions in the universe by miniaturizing them into lab experiments. An international team of researchers made beams from a…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jan 16

Should the FDA Ban People From Genetically Engineering Themselves?

In the past few months, the possibility of do-it-yourself genetic engineering has exited the realm of the purely hypothetical. At a conference last fall, a well-known biohacker injected himself with a gene to promote muscle growth. Not long after, a 27-year-old software engineer injected himself with an unproven gene therapy for HIV while streaming on…

Biology Kristen V. Brown Jan 16

The Internet Has Made Americans More Casual About Religion

The First US Human CRISPR Trials Could Start Any Day Now

Sunken Tanker Spawns Four Giant Oil Spills in East China Sea

These Companies Want You to Sell Your DNA on the Internet

Study With One-Word Abstract Finds Moon Phases Don’t Predict Earthquakes

New AI System Predicts How Long Patients Will Live With Startling Accuracy

Here’s Why 200,000 Saiga Antelope Dropped Dead in Kazakhstan in 2015

Social Media Giants Assure Senators They Totally Have This Terrorism and Propaganda Thing Under Control

Just Get The Damn Flu Shot

Divers in Mexico Have Discovered the World’s Largest Flooded Cave

Silicon Valley Is Ready to Spend Millions More on Its Anti-Aging Obsession

New Research Could Help Bring Secure Quantum Communication to Everyone

Here’s Why Most Animals Don’t Use Their Tails as Weapons

This Giant Fireball Over Michigan Was Visible From Six States and Canada

Almost Everyone on the National Park System Advisory Board Quits in Protest of Ryan Zinke

Millions of Migrating Baby Crabs Are an Absolutely Bonkers Sight to Behold

Why CRISPR-Edited Food May Be in Supermarkets Sooner Than You Think

There Are So Many Flu Victims, California Hospitals Are Setting Up Emergency Tents in Their Parking Lots

Scientists Create Miniature Gamma Ray Bursts to Study Black Holes

Should the FDA Ban People From Genetically Engineering Themselves?

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