Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Matt Wood
It is unlikely that Australopithecus sediba, a nearly two-million-year-old, apelike fossil from South Africa, is the direct ancestor of Homo, the genus to which modern-day humans belong, according to new research.
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- Written by: Sarah McQuate
Children in the study described creepy technology as something that is unpredictable or poses an ambiguous threat that might cause physical harm or threaten an important relationship.
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- Written by: Dan Lewis, et al
While the look and feel of our cars has changed in the past 100 years, the way we drive them hasn’t.
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- Written by: Asaf Tzachor
You might not be able to stomach soybeans for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but the animals you eat do.
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- Written by: Jordan Frith
An almost invisible electronic device used all over the world – best known to much of the public for helping reunite lost pets and their owners...
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- Written by: Rebecca Beyer
Bioethicist Matthew Liao is open to genetic engineering in theory, but he says he was rather horrified to learn that twin girls had been born in China after a researcher genetically modified their embryos to resist HIV infection.
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- Written by: Sylvie Albert, et al
The Fabrication City concept puts manufacturing back in the hands of communities — using 3D printers.
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- Written by: Amy LaViers
A colleague of mine, a roboticist, recently proclaimed that if one could teleoperate the robot he developed in his lab, it could hold down a desk job.
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- Written by: Anna Comerford
We connect to people around us in mysterious ways but science has proven that the heart is the biggest source of electromagnetic energy in the human body. They found there is an electromagnetic (energetic communication) between people.
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- Written by: Deborah Robinson
For those readers, who’ve ever had an operation – whether it was planned or an emergency – things in the real world probably felt very different to those familiar TV drama medical emergency scenes.
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- Written by: Sharon Samiento
If you dread a day of rest from the digital world, then you probably need one. A secular sabbath is time away from your devices. It can be any day of the week, just whatever works for you.
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- Written by: Peter Atkins
Science is like Michelangelo. The young Michelangelo demonstrated his skill as a sculptor by carving the ravishing Pietà in the Vatican; the mature Michelangelo, having acquired and demonstrated his skill, broke free of the conventions and created his extraordinary later quasi-abstractions. Science has trod a similar path.
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- Written by: Gabe Cherry
A newly discovered processor vulnerability could potentially put secure information at risk in any Intel-based PC manufactured since 2008. It could affect users who rely on a digital lockbox feature known as Intel Software Guard Extensions, or SGX, as well as those who use common cloud-based services.
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- Written by: Henry Cowles
Sales of George Orwell’s utopian novel 1984 (1949) have spiked twice recently, both times in response to political events. In early 2017, the idea of ‘alternative facts’ called to mind Winston Smith, the book’s protagonist and, as a clerk in the Ministry of Truth, a professional alternator of facts.
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- Written by: Janelle Shane
Will the intelligent algorithms of the future look like general-purpose robots, as adept at idle banter and reading maps as they are handy in the kitchen? Or will our digital assistants look more like a grab-bag of specialized gadgets...
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- Written by: Adam Morgan
“A red sky at night is a shepherd’s delight! A red sky in the morning is a shepherd’s warning.” The “red sky” proverb has endured across cultures for centuries, and modern science can explain why this is so.
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- Written by: brilliant.org
The old statistics axiom that correlation doesn’t imply causation is true, but causation can be drawn from more than one correlation.
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- Written by: Nate Luce
Researchers say they’ve solved a major fabrication challenge for perovskite cells—the intriguing potential challengers to silicon-based solar cells.
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- Written by: Robert Chapman
When humans’ genetic information (known as the genome) was mapped in 2003, it promised to change the world. Optimists anticipated an era in which all genetic diseases would be eradicated. Pessimists feared widespread genetic discrimination. Neither of these hopes and fears have been realised.
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- Written by: Tom Abate, Stanford University
A new water-based battery could provide a cheap way to store wind or solar energy for later, researchers say.
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- Written by: James A. T. Lancaster, The University of Queensland
The concept of scientific evidence has deep roots in rhetoric, revealing how persuasion plays a crucial role in its acceptance. From ancient orators to modern skeptics, the presentation of evidence often shapes public perception, highlighting the need for effective communication in science, especially in the context of climate change debates.
