Science & Technology – Week of 12.06.15
How to Watch the Geminid Meteor Shower
Time | 12 December 2015
Starts Sunday, December 13th…
This Scientist Invented a Simple Way to Mass-Produce Graphene
Popular Mechanics | 20 March 2015
Holds u…
How to Watch the Geminid Meteor Shower
Time | 12 December 2015
Starts Sunday, December 13th…
This Scientist Invented a Simple Way to Mass-Produce Graphene
Popular Mechanics | 20 March 2015
Holds u…
Germany’s About to Switch on a Revolutionary Nuclear Fusion Machine
Science Alert | 01 November 2015
YouTube | 22 October 2015
Operational tokamaks across…
Nielsen: Smartphones and the Inter…
Satellite Wars
Financial Times | 20 November 2015
Threatens the satellites that control…
Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.
NY Times | 26 September 2015
But we have put this virtuous circle in…
Transp…
Biggest Diamond in 110 years Found in Botswana (Photos)
RT | 19 November 2015
Record breaker is…
How Property Rights in Outer Space may Lead to a Scramble to Exploit the Moon’s Resources
Washin…
The Bourbon Conspiracy That Wrecked France’s Ecole Polytechnique
Schiller Institute | 20 June 1997
Evil methods of the Venetian Enlightenment’s attempt to…
Bill Confirming Property Rights for A…
Compact Fusion
Lockheed Martin | 2014
Pull it off, we’ll be able to deploy…
MIT Researchers Say Their Drones Can Safely Navigate Forests At 30 MPH
Fast Company | 02 November 2015
Stereo-vision algo…
Enhancing National Preparedness to Space-Weather Events
White House |29 October 2015
Earth (and through…
Government Spending in Space Programs at $66.5 Billion in 2014
Euro Consult | 13 May 2015
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TTIP: EU Negotiators Appear to Break Environmental Pledge in Leaked Draft
The Guardian | 23 October 2015
No definitions of what core…
The Transhumanism Scrapbook: The Next Globalist…
Giza Death …
LENR Explanation Break-through
Revolution Green | 15 October 2015
Ponderomotive forces at resonance frequencies…
Tesla’s New Software Helps Model S Drive Itself
USA Today | 14 October 2015
Tested o…
Opinion: Edward Snowden’s New Revelations Are Truly Chilling
True Activist | 07 October 2015
Even when the phone is…
U.S. Gov’t Spends Half Million Dollars on Robots That Read to Children
Tech Sw…
The Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites
NY Times | 01 October 2015
Every day for a month would cost the equivalent of about…
U.S. securities regulator expands use of powerful software: source
R…
We’re Going Back to the Moon
Kiplinger | 04 August 2015
Moon seems likely sometime late in…
New Venture Touts $100 Million for Vegas-Victorville Express Train
Las Vegas Review-Journal | 17 Septembe…
U.S. and China Seek Arms Deal for Cyberspace
NY Times | 19 September 2015
United Nations code of…
Satellite Images Show Economies Growing and Shrinking in Real Time
Spin | 26 August 2015
One of the…
Justice Department’s New Stingray Surveillance Policy Has Major Loophole
MintPress News | 08 September 2015
Won’t Get a Warrant if we don’t…
Cloak of Light Makes Drone Invisible?
Wired | 08 May…
U.S. Working on Sanctions against China over Cyber Espionage
MSN | 31 August 2015
First use of…authority to freeze financial and…
Many scientific studies can’t be replicated. That’s a problem.
Washington Post | 27 August 2015
May succumb to motivated…
The Future of the Internet Is at Risk
Financial Sense | 26 August 2015
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New Ford Car Automatically Obeys Speed Limit
CNN | 25 March 2015
Unveiled by For of…
Hacker’s Ashley Madison Data Dump Threatens Marriages, Reputations
Reuters | 19 August 2015
Move to identify mem…
Autonomous Tractor at Work (Video)
You Tube | 02 August 2015
No one in the cab…
Did The EPA Intentionally Poison Animas River To Secure SuperFund Money?
Zero Hedge | 12 August 2015
Foul the Animas …
Russians Hacked Joint Chiefs of Staff
Yahoo Tech | 05 August 2015
Chiefs then suffered what…
Inflatable Space Elevator Gets a Lift
Yahoo Tech | 05 August 2015
Elevator cable 12…
U.S. Researchers…
The NSA’s 9/11 Cover-Up: General Hayden Told a Lie, and It’s a Whopper
Counter Punch | 30 July 2015
James Bamford…former NSA whistleblower…unearths an unsettling…
Stephen Hawking Set to Tac…
Paid Not to Drill? Not So Fast
Ice Age Now | 22 July 2015
Single most biodiverse area in the world…indigenous…
Arctic Global Warming Research Expedition Put on Hold – Too Much Ice
Ice Age Now |…
Pluto Wows with First Close View of Ice Mountains on Its Surface
New Scientist | 15 July 2015
Kuiper belt, the third region of…
How the Internet is Becoming a Part of Us
BBC | 01 July 2015
Homo sap…
Long Live The Mammoth: Scientists Have the Tools to Bring Back Extinct Species
Popsci | 19 May 2015
Here’s how they plan to…
OPM Announces More Than 21 Million Affected by Second Data Breach
Nation…
Russian cargo ship heads to space station, breaking string of failures
Yahoo | 03 July 2015
Cargo ship, and the planned launch of a…
Government Trolls Are Using “Psychology-Based Influence Techniq…
Nasa’s Dawn Mission: Ceres Shows Off a Mountain in Addition to 8 Bright Spots
International Business Times | 24 June 2015
Puzzle scientists throwing more mysteries…
China Puts $6 Trillion Price Tag…
Watch the Navy’s Railgun Catapult Skip a 4-Ton Cart Like a Stone
Popular Mechanics | 17 June 2015
EMALS system will replace…
U.S. Changing Credit Card Liability on October 1, 2015
Armstrong Econom…
Man Saves Black Bear From Drowning
CBS News | 30 June 2008
Started looking at me as if…
Obama Goes Full Stalin: Tells Secret Court To Ignore Law He Signed 4 Hours Earlier, Extend Illegal NSA Survei…
Florida Biologist Saves Drowning Bear
Telegraph | 30 June 2008
Dived into the Gulf of Mexico…
Trendy Mind Control for Sale: Get Your Smartphone-Enabled, Mood Altering Brain Zapper Today
Truthstream…
Mary Meeker’s 2015 Internet Trends (Slides)
recode | 27 May 2015
Dove into topics like on-demand economy jobs, drone …
“Loomio Unleashes the Internet’s Potential to Bring People Towards Cons…
Is the USDA Rigging Science in Favor of Mosanto?
Undernews | 21 May 2015
Routinely suffer retaliation and…
New Class of Swelling Magnets
Revolution Green| 21 May 2015
Potential to energize the…
…
New ‘E-Kaia’ Technology Harvests Excess Energy From Plants
Revolution-Green | 12 May 2015
What stands out is…
The Economics Of Tesla’s PowerWall Don’t Make Sense For Most Customers In North A…
NSA’s Phone Spying Program Ruled Illegal By Appeals Court
Reuters | 07 May 2015
Give Congress a chance…
Learn How To Build Green
Green Building Learning Center | 07 May 2015
Online classes on smart…
Elon Musk Debuts the Tesla Powerwall
YouTube | 01 May 2015
“The Missing”…
Geoengineering-Fast Track to Total Disaster & Total Collapse-Dane Wigington
USA Watchdog | 29 April 2015
Enough data …
Tesla Wants to Power Your Home With a Battery
CNN Money | 22 April 2015
Those batteries start at…
White House Backs Cyber Legislation in Congress Despite Some Reservations
Sputnik News | 22 April 2…
The Information War on a Whole New Level: Space
Activist Post | 15 April 2015
“U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around…
EU Alleges Google’s Abuses Hurt Consumers, Innovation
ABC News | 15 April 2…
Internet Seen as Positive Influence on Education but Negative on Morality in Emerging and Developing Nations
Pew Global | 19 March 2015
Many in these…
Baltimore Police used Secret Technology to Tra…
High Speed Rail for Australia
Convenient Solutions | 09 March 2015
Herbicides used with GM crops alter antibiotic resistance of disease-causing bacteria
Agenda 21 News | 03 April 2015
Sublethal ef…
Russia Unveils Plans for Superhighway Linking Europe to US
Circa News | 25 March 2015
12,400-mile…
Strange Space News, Weird DARPA Programs, and “Brace Yourself” Statements from an Insider
Giza De…
6in60 Production Report
Vimeo | March 2014
The story of the “6 Machines in 60…
Your Late-Night Emails Are Hurting Your Team
Harvard Business Review | 16 March 2015
You’re missing the opportu…
Thomas Linzey: Kkeynote Address of the 31rst Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
Vimeo | 03 March 2013
New model to return democracy to…
Pi Day Hits a Milestone That Comes Only Once a Ce…
One Year Later, We’re No Closer To Finding MtGox’s Missing Millions
Slashdot | 05 March 2015
remainder stolen through a series
Are Pilots Deserting Washington’s Drone War?
Naked Capitalism | 06 Mar…
Silicon Valley Panic: China Demands NSA-Like Access and Control
Sputnik News| 27 February 2015
Really strong steroids…
NASA’s Dawn Eyes Two Mysterious White Dots on Its Approach to Ceres
Examiner |…
Open Data Day: February 21st
Open Data Day | February 2015
Learn and help the global open data community grow.
Portland Now Generating Hydropower In Its Water Pipes
Oregon Public Broadcasting | 20 Fe…
Driverless Car Beats Racing Driver for First Time
Telegraph | 17 October 2013
skilled race car drivers are…
Volvo Supercapacitors Body Panels
YouTube | 17 October 2013
Part that can store…
A His…
Alibaba Deploys Drones to Deliver Tea in China
Yahoo Finance | 04 February 2015
Airspace in China is…
DNA: The Next Frontier in Forensics
FT | 30 January 2015
First…in forensic history…
Has th…
Smartphones will begin Categorizing Users’ Mental Health; Gun Seizures will Follow
Natural News | 23 January 2015
Assess factors like when patients…
Smart Meters—not so Smart: How Dangerous and Expensive Became “Smart” An Exposé of the “Smart Grid”
Weston A Price | 19 January 2015
Speaking of Agenda 21 | Dr. Stanley Monteith & Mi…
This USB Wall Charger Secretly Logs Keystrokes from Microsoft Wireless Keyboards Nearby
Venture Beat | 12 January 2015
“I hope this creates pressure to ensure”…
Nokia 215: Microsoft Unveils its Cheapest Ever Internet Phone with 29-day Battery Life and $29 Price Tag
Independent| 04 January 2015
It will be useful in the markets that…
SpaceX’s Next Frontie…
The Resonance Project
Resonance | 27 December 2014
To change something, build…
NSA Analysts Spied on Spouses, Girlfriends: Documents
Daily News | 27 December 2014
Documents detail allegations and …
Apple Did its First Ever Automatic Security Update on Macs Today
Slate | 23 December 2014
Apple added universal automatic updates…
Coming Data Deluge Means You’ll Know Anything You Want, Anytime,…
AFSA Open Letter Opposing Human Feeding Trials Involving GM Banana
AFSA | 18 December 2014
These crops divert resources…
Monsanto: Science and Fraud are the Same Thing
Jon Rappoport | 18 December 2…
London hit by air traffic control computer failure
Yahoo | 12 December 2014
“Some of NATS’ computer systems are…
Quantum Teleportation Reaches Farthest Distance Yet
Motherboard | 03 December 2014
N…
Why Elon Musk’s Batteries Scare the Hell Out of the Electric Company
Yahoo | 05 December 2014
Tesla’s home and business energy-storage product…
NASA Unmanned Spaceship Blasts Off
Reuters | 05 Decem…
Graphene Shows Promise for Bulletproof Armour
Henry Maddox | 25 November 2014
Observations using an electron microscope revealed…
What Google’s Eric Schmidt Doesn’t Understand
Henry Maddox | 25…
New subatomic particles predicted by Canadians found at CERN
CBCNews | 19 November 2014
The LHC is currently shut…
USA Freedom Act Fails to Move Forward… For Incredibly Stupid Reasons
Tech Dirt |…
Rosetta’s Comet Sounds Like This (Magnetic Oscillations)|Video
Space | 11 November 2014
ESA’s Rosetta probe detected cyclical changes…
FCC Chair ‘Under the Bus’ After Obama Call on Web Rule…
A Sad Fact of Life: It’s Actually Smart to Be Mean Online
Wired | 07 November 2014
This so-called negativity bias…
Gartner’s Top 10 Technology Trends for 2015: All about the cloud
Tech Republic …
Virgin Galactic Crash: Branson Virgin Galactic Crash: Vows to Persevere with Space Travel after Pilot’s Death
Independent | 1 November 2014
Said he was “shocked and saddened” by the event, but ple…
Surveillance Reform Theater
Dissident Voice | 19 October 2014
Why would the Director of the FBI knowingly advocate a strategy which is…
US, Japan to Bolster Space Cooperation over Chinese Threat
RT…
Wind Blows Away Fossil Power in The Nordics, The Baltics Next
Reuters | 15 October 2014
Adding further wind power capacity at current market conditions could lead to power prices dropping…
9 Milita…
Getting to Mars Will Ensure the Survival of Our Species
Daily Mail | 10 October 2014
It lost the magnetic field that protected it…
Russians May Land on the Moon by End of Next Decade
TASS | 10 Octo…
Q&A: Experts Warn of Bash Bug, What are the Risks?
The Denver Post | 29 September 2014
Internet security experts are warning that a new programming flaw…
Solar May Become Largest Global Power Sou…
This Device Lets Fully Paralyzed Rats Walk Again, and Human Trials Are Planned
Motherboard | 24 September 2014
In the past few years, there have been some pretty impressive breakthroughs for those suf…
On/Off Switch for Aging Cells Discovered
FARS | 22 September 2014
Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered an on-and-off “switch” in cells that may hold the key to healthy aging…
Scient…
Solar Storm Heading for Earth
USA Today | 11 September 2014
A “strong” solar flare that launched off the sun Wednesday afternoon could cause some fluctuations…
Pelé Unveils Unique Football Pitch W…
Android Security Mystery – ‘Fake’ Cellphone Towers Found in U.S.
We Live Security | 28 August 2014
Seventeen mysterious cellphone towers have been found in America which look like ordinary tower…
Robot Olympics Planned for 2020 Powered by Japan’s ‘Robot Revolution’
Singularity Hub | 02 August 2014
Japan likes robots. And while some Americans raised on a confusing sci-fi diet…
Robotic …
Space Salad Glows Purple in a Greenhouse Made For Mars
New Scientist | 05 August 2014
Would-Be Mars colonist and space-flight entrepreneur Elon Musk often jokes that he wants “to die on Mars, but not …
100,000 amps breakthrough: Highest Electrical Current Achieved in Japan
RT | 27 July 2014
Japanese scientists have managed to achieve an electrical current of 100,000 amperes…
Ryden Dual Carbon Battery
Revolution Green | 21 July 2014
This is a good story I am visiting for a second time. It represents many new battery technologies that are emerging and could have a huge impa…
A Yankee Inventor Takes On Beijing Smog
Qing’s Tea House | 10 June 2014
On days when Beijing’s heavy air pollution is especially pungent…
Southwest, UPS Airliners Aid in Weather Forecasting Revol…
Sun Valley Said to Be on Alert for Drones at Billionaire Enclave
Bloomberg | 08 July 2014
As billionaires and dealmakers descend upon Sun Valley, Idaho…
The Smart Bracelet That Can Read Your Emotio…
NASA Explores A New World: Crowdsourcing Ideas
NPR | 30 June 2014
NASA is asking the public to help it develop new ways to bring their technology to the commercial market…
Paradigm Shifts by Moray King
YouTube | 19 May 2014
An edited version of Moray King’s presentation from January 23, 2014…
Russia Wants to Replace US Computer Chips with Local Processors
ITAR-TASS …
US Panel Sets Sights on Mars
Nature | 04 June 2014
Sending humans to red planet touted as NASA’s wisest long-range goal…
New Chip to Bring Holograms to Smartphones
Wall Street Journal | 02 June 201…
Life Created With Two Synthetic Bases for 6 DNA Letters With Original Four G, T, C, A and Now X and Y and This Expands Amino Acids From 20 to 172
Next Big Future | 09 May 2014
Romesberg started out w…
Practical Application of Space-Based Power Generation
JAXA
The Space Solar Power Systems project is a space-based solar power plant that generates energy by collecting sunlight in geostationary orbit….
Internet Well on Way to 3 Billion Users, UN Telecom Agency Reports
UN News Centre | 05 May 2014
Releasing new statistics today, the United Nations International Telecommunications Union…
Synthetic …
A Foldable Bike Helmet You’ll Just Happen To Have In Your Bag
NPR | 07 May 2014
In our “Weekly Innovation” blog series, we explore an interesting idea…
Are We Ready for Contact with Extraterrestria…
Film Download Prices ‘To Be Determined By Screen Size’
BBC | 30 April 2014
The cost of watching a newly released film will depend upon the size of the screen on which it is viewed…
Wake Up, Interne…
Build a Stable Wormhole With the Help of Dark Aliens
New Scientist | 23 April 2014
Dark energy just opened a can of wormholes…
Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour
Singularity Hub | 22 January 2…
Your Gadgets Are Gross: The Best Tools for Spring Cleaning Electronics
The Wall Street Journal | 15 April 2014
Making your tech sparkle means more than just grabbing whatever is in the cleaning closet…
Hidden Miracles of the Natural World
TED | March 2014
We live in a world of unseeable beauty, so subtle and delicate that it is imperceptible to the human eye…
Meet the Jumping, Bionic Kangaroo Rob…
Verizon Accused of Tearing out Copper Telephone Lines to Force FiOS and Wireless on Customers
Extreme Tech | 24 March 2014
Verizon has come under fire in the past for attempting to shove consumers off…
3D-Printed Skull Replacement Transplant a World First for Netherlands Patient
International Business Times | 26 March 2014
A 22-year-old woman has received the world’s first full 3D-printed skull repl…
Lockheed Martin Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in Robotics for Space Exploration
Lockheed Martin | 11 March 2014
In a breakthrough that will help make it possible for astronauts and robots to work t…
CUPID Drone to ‘Shock the World’ with 80,000 Volt Stun Gun
RT | 08 March 2013
A Texas film has revealed an app controlled security drone that can zap intruders with an 80,000 volt taser dart…
A…
China to Test Cutting-Edge Anti-Smog Drone
RT | 06 March 2014
Government agencies in China are set to test a new aerial drone to tackle their overwhelming air pollution…
Atlantic Oil Drilling Using…
North American Scientists Track Incoming Fukushima Plume
BBC News | 25 February 2014
The likely scale of the radioactive plume of water from Fukushima due to hit the west coast of North America should…
Fusion Breakthrough Reported…And a Look Back
Giza Death Star | 19 February 2014
This one was sent to me by many of you, and it is one of those stories that requires being mentioned…
World’s Lar…
V2V: What are Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications and How Do They Work?
Extreme Tech | 06 February 2014
Vehicle-to-vehicle communications moved one step closer to reality…
Why Traffic To These Google…
Graphene-Based Nano-Antennas May Enable Cooperating Smart Dust Swarms
Gizmag | 03 February 2014
Smart dust. Utility fog. Programmable matter. Grey and blue goo…
The Robots That Saved Pittsburgh
Pol…
More “Fringe” Science Again: Quantum Entanglement and “Psychic Teleportation”
Giza Death Star | 30 January 2014
I swear, scheduling this next two weeks’ blogs for me has been one of the more…
A Radiation Detector In Your Smartphone
NPR| 23 January 2013
A smartphone camera can make you a walking gamma ray detector…
2013 Invention Awards: Cardboard Bike
Popular Science | 07 May 2013
A $3…
Harvard Research Team has Breakthrough on Battery Storage
OilPrice.com | 13 January 2014
As the world slowly transitions away from energy based on burning hydrocarbons…
Anti-NSA Blackphone: Encrypt…
Anatomy of a Snap Attack
The New Yorker | 09 January 2014
Snapchat, the social network that allows people to send photo and video messages that disappear within ten seconds…
Broadcom’s Billionaire …
Spherical Glass Solar Energy Generator by Rawlemon
Desginboom | 25 August 2012
German born, Barcelona-based architect André Broessel has sent us images of his latest development…
Brainlike Compute…
Leo the Maker Prince: Book to Teach Kids 3D Printing
Boing Boing | 20 December 2013
Leo the Maker Prince by Carla Diana is a charming picture book that teaches kids (and grownups who appreciate cute, …
China Vows to Collect Lunar Samples in 2017 After Successful Mission
RT | 17 December 2013
With the Jade Rabbit rover currently reconning the lunar surface…
Wind Power Rivals Coal With $1 Billion O…