Photos of space tech
12 incredible photos of space tech from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab By Lyndsey Gilpin, From Tech Republic SPIDER The SPIDER project started in the 2000s. It was made to map the thermal afterglow of the Big Bang. A giant helium…
Single dose Ebola vaccine is safe, effective in monkeys against outbreak strain
From Science Daily VSV-EBOV appears to trigger innate, adaptive immunity Date: August 6, 2015 Source: NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Summary: A single dose of an experimental Ebola virus vaccine completely protects cynomolgus macaques against the current EBOV…
Earthquake hits close to Martinique; two more quakes near Barbados
From CARIBBEAN360 FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique, Saturday August 8, 2015 – An early morning earthquake has been recorded a short distance from the French island of Martinique, and close to St. Lucia and Dominica. According to initial data from the UWI Seismic…
Survey: Will artificial intelligence take over IT and the world?
By Scott Matteson From TechRepublic Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a staple of science fiction and cinema for decades now, with one of the most famous early examples being Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” It represented the potential…
Marine Fossils
Photos: Trove of Marine Fossils Discovered in Morocco By Laura Geggel, Staff Writer From live Science Hundreds of millions of years ago, marine animals swam in a vast ocean near the supercontinent of Gondwana. Now, these creatures’ fossils litter the…
An iPhone feature most people never find is doing something amazing for the visually impaired
By Steve Kovach, Tech Insider From Business Insider You wouldn’t expect Luis Perez to be an amateur photographer. Perez, a higher education learning consultant in Florida, has retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that essentially gives him tunnel vision. He only has…
Smoking cannabis is more dangerous for MEN
By Lizzie Parry for MailOnline Drug is ‘four times more likely to trigger psychosis in males than females’, experts warn Gender difference between cannabis use and psychotic episodes explored Study: Male users are four times more likely to suffer illness…
Ancient lizards
Ancient Caribbean lizards found to have barely evolved in past 20 million years By Sean Martin From International Business Time The remains of several types of anolis lizards were analysed after they were perfectly preserved in amber in the island…
URI scientists may mount research expedition to an active underwater volcano in Caribbean
By Ambar Espinoza By RINPR Scientists at the University of Rhode Island may mount a research expedition to the most active underwater volcano in the Caribbean Sea. Disaster management authorities there have been on alert for more than a week….
A Nibble of Prevention – why broccoli is good for us
By Michael Anft Paul Talalay’s research showed why broccoli is good for us. Now, a new center at Johns Hopkins is looking for more foods that could stave off cancer and other diseases. It’s morning in the office beside Paul…
