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Bulletproof Coffee: Debunking the Hot Buttered Hype

People are putting butter in their coffee. And hey, if you’re just craving a new flavor experience, more power to you. The problem is that Bulletproof Coffee, the company behind the trend, is claiming that drinking a mug of fatty joe every morning instead of eating breakfast is a secret shortcut to weight loss and…

Tech News Brent Rose Jan 23

There’s a Whole New Type of Stone And It’s Made From Our Plastic

Congratulations, humanity: After millennia of building cathedrals and toiling over great works of art and science, we’ve finally created something that will far outlast us. It’s called Plastiglomerate, a stone made out of molten plastic, and yes, we should probably be ashamed of ourselves. In a study published yesterday in the Geological Society of America,…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jun 10

Video explains why so many scientific studies are basically bullcrap

How many things cause cancer according to science studies? Probably the same amount of things that can make you magically healthy. What is good for you is bad for you is good for you, depending on the day and which scientific study came out recently. There are so many of those studies and they all…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 28

Retracted: Study That Found Acid Converts Blood Cells Into Stem Cells

The team of Japanese scientists who published a study trumpeted as a groundbreaking advancement in stem cell biology are now asking that it be retracted. The study claimed that by dipping blood cells in acid, scientists had discovered they could turn them into stem cells. But since its publication at the end of January, many…

Tech News PJ Smith Mar 10

These Iconic Landmarks May Be Underwater Within 2,000 Years

Intellectually, we all know that sea level rise is real—but it’s hard to imagine exactly how it’ll effect us in the long term. A new study does just that by calculating which UNESCO Heritage Sites are most at-risk for being submerged by the rising tides. The results are devastating. The study was published this week…

Climate Change Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Mar 7

Tomorrow’s Spacecraft Could Be Made of the Same Bone You Are

Human bones are amazing—seriously, they’re incredibly cool—but up until recently, it’s been hard to engineer a synthetic material that replicates the super-strong structure of the real thing. Now, scientists in Germany are using a 3D printer to do just that—and it could mean a breakthrough for how we build everything from architecture to spacecraft. A…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Feb 12

How the Architecture of Our Buildings Shapes the Germs Around Us

We design buildings to make human lives better—but should we also design them to make bacteria healthier? A new study posits just that, suggesting that the microbial communities that live amongst us are deeply influenced by the design of our buildings. Wait—but aren’t microbes bad? Not exactly. “Do function, form and organization predict variation in…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jan 30

Scientist Calculates How To Survive First 30 Minutes of Nuclear War

We’re more than half a century past 1960, when the Doomsday Clock ticked down to two minutes before midnight. Yet, despite the steady outpouring of movies and TV shows featuring rogue nukes and dirty bombs, fewer and fewer people actively worry about a nuclear bomb going off. That being said: Do you know where and…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jan 16

Scientific Data Is Disappearing All the Time

When a study gets published and its results enter our collective body of scientific knowledge it feels like it’s there to stay. But without the raw data behind the study, it’s hard to revisit the research and use it to take new ideas to the next level. Which is why it’s such a problem that…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Dec 22

These Rorschach Ink Tests Could Replace the Good Old CAPTCHA

The CAPTCHA is a wonderful thing, but it’s not without its failings. And as hackers get better and better at cracking them, a team of CMU engineers are proposing an alternative: Inkblot tests. It’s called a GOTCHA (of course), and it stands for Generating panOptic Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart. The test…

Privacy & Security Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Oct 15

The Smell of Peanut Butter Could Diagnose Alzheimer’s

On the heels of the recent discovery thataccelerometers could be used as indicators for Alzheimer’s disease comes yet another potential diagnostic tool, one that most of us already have in our pantries: peanut butter. Alzheimer’s often impacts the olfactory cortex first and, as such, compromises our sense of smell, specifically in the brain’s left hemisphere.…

Tech News Pavithra Mohan Oct 9

Scientists Get Mice Drunk To Explain Why Binge Drinking Breaks Bones

It’s a well-known thing amongst doctors that heavy drinkers have a mysterious propensity for breaking their bones—and not just because they may trip over their own feet in an inebriated stupor. Medical researchers from Loyola University in Chicago wanted to get to the bottom of the issue, and they addressed the question the only way…

Tech News Pavithra Mohan Oct 7

How Thomas Kinkade Helped Prove That Art Can Be Scientifically Bad

What’s your favorite meal? Logically, your answer depends on the foods you’re familiar with. Now here’s another question: Who’s your favorite painter? Turns out the same logic doesn’t apply. A new study that pits Thomas Kinkade against 19th century painter John Everett Millais has proven that some art actually is objectively good or bad—contradicting what…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Aug 8

Scientists Replicate a San Andreas Fault Quake in Upstate New York

You’d think that in this day in age of digital software, scientists wouldn’t need to destroy a real building to test the strength of its materials. But that’s exactly what’s happening this summer in Buffalo, where a team of Johns Hopkins engineers are using a hydraulic “shake table” to recreate the 1994 Northridge earthquake in…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Aug 1

The HIV-Prevention Pill Really Works

Doctors have made leaps and bounds with curing patients of HIV, but today, an equally-groundbreaking study has proven that emerging preventative treatments are even more effective than previously thought. The study, which was published in The Lancet today, concerns pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP), a newish preventative treatment in which at-risk patients take a daily pill…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jun 12

Most Traffic Jams Are Caused By Just a Handful of Idiots

Deep in your heart you know it: there are like two drivers out there on the road that are causing all the traffic jams and one of those assholes is the guy right in front of you. Well, new information collected from hundreds and hundreds of drivers’ cellphones actually backs that up. Sort of. It…

Tech News Eric Limer Feb 17

How An Outgoing Disposition Can Help You Become a Professional Scientist

Today’s What Was It comes from Laurel Fiske. She’s the person who actually does the groundwork for all those neat studies that show up in journals, and occasionally in newspapers. She’s also proof that not all science nerds are locked up in a sunless room hissing at intruders. When anyone has a problem with the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jul 19

Nobody Writes Anything Anymore, Says Study

Have any of you picked up a pen and paper to scrawl some note or jot down a quick to do list only to find your hand muscles have gone slack and your once-clear, familiar handwriting now crooked and forced? I have. Sometimes. It’s really rather sad. The results of a study commissioned by the…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jun 22

Living alone could send you to an early grave

Two studies published this week have drawn a link between either living alone or feeling lonely — and an increased risk of death. Your lone wolf habits could be driving you to an early end. Top image: Pond5.com/Stephane106 The first simply looked at people living alone, and their chances of cardiovascular disease or death. What…

io9 Tim Barribeau Jun 22

How Alcoholism Is Linked to Extreme Weight-Loss

Recent research out of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center sheds new light on the correlation between gastric bypass surgery and the increased risk of developing an alcohol addiction. Previously, it had been suggested that increased alcohol consumption was compensatory for the inability to consume food as one had previously, at levels seeming of addiction.…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jun 19

Bulletproof Coffee: Debunking the Hot Buttered Hype

There’s a Whole New Type of Stone And It’s Made From Our Plastic

Video explains why so many scientific studies are basically bullcrap

Retracted: Study That Found Acid Converts Blood Cells Into Stem Cells

These Iconic Landmarks May Be Underwater Within 2,000 Years

Tomorrow’s Spacecraft Could Be Made of the Same Bone You Are

How the Architecture of Our Buildings Shapes the Germs Around Us

Scientist Calculates How To Survive First 30 Minutes of Nuclear War

Scientific Data Is Disappearing All the Time

These Rorschach Ink Tests Could Replace the Good Old CAPTCHA

The Smell of Peanut Butter Could Diagnose Alzheimer’s

Scientists Get Mice Drunk To Explain Why Binge Drinking Breaks Bones

How Thomas Kinkade Helped Prove That Art Can Be Scientifically Bad

Scientists Replicate a San Andreas Fault Quake in Upstate New York

The HIV-Prevention Pill Really Works

Most Traffic Jams Are Caused By Just a Handful of Idiots

How An Outgoing Disposition Can Help You Become a Professional Scientist

Nobody Writes Anything Anymore, Says Study

Living alone could send you to an early grave

How Alcoholism Is Linked to Extreme Weight-Loss

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