2019-03-01
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Coming Soon to a Grocery Store Near You: Lab-Grown Meat, Eggs and Milk
March 24, 2016Seeing the need to balance the ethics of using animals as a food source and a burgeoning planetary population, researchers have been studying ways to grow animal tissue in the lab, to produce a food source that doesn't rely on... continued
Dwarf Planet Ceres May Be Showing Signs of Daily Geological Activity
March 23, 2016Some of our smallest astronomical neighbors just keep getting odder and odder: recent observations of the bright spots found on dwarf planet Ceres have shown them to be brightening and dimming over the course of it's 9-hour day. The spots,... continued
Researchers Develop Method of Uploading Information Directly to Your Brain
March 22, 2016Do you know Kung-Fu? In a reversal to improved methods of reading, recording and interpreting brain patterns, researchers at California's HRL Laboratories have developed a method of transmitting learning patterns directly into the brain. While this technique isn't quite as... continued
Here’s NASA’s Concept For What a Future Starship Might Look Like
March 19, 2016On September 8, 1966, the first episode in a television series that would come to revolutionize television aired: simply called 'Star Trek', this science-fiction show would change the way stories were told, the way we would view the world, and... continued
Hactivist Group Anonymous Declares War on Donald Trump
March 18, 2016 The hactivist group Anonymous has released a video calling on it's members to launch cyberattacks on Donald Trump's websites, beginning on April 1. “We need you to shut down his websites, research and expose what he doesn’t want the public... continued
Atlantic Ocean off of the U.S. East Coast Rising 3–4 Times Higher than the Global Average
March 17, 2016A study from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warns that waters off of the U.S. East Coast may be particularly susceptible to dramatic level increases, due to the effects of global warming. This study used computer models that tracked... continued
Russian Scientists to Test Upgraded ICBMs as Asteroid Killers
March 16, 2016Earlier this month, Russia's Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau announced it's intention to upgrade intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), to be used against asteroids that could potentially impact the Earth. The proposal comes two years after the high-altitude, 500-kiloton explosion of a... continued
Harsh Winter Storm Hits Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary
March 15, 2016A harsh winter storm has hit the world's largest butterfly sanctuary in southern Mexico, killing upwards of 1.5 million monarch butterflies, ahead of their annual migration north. The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, a designated World Heritage Site, has a comparatively... continued
Possible Debris from Flight 370 Found in Mozambique
March 12, 2016Civil aviation authorities in Mozambique have announced that an American citizen that has been independently investigating the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may have found a part from the missing aircraft. Mozambique’s Civil Aviation Institute president, Joao de... continued
Buddhist Monk Matthieu Ricard Declared ‘World’s Happiest Man’
March 11, 2016In 1972, shortly after earning his Ph.D. in molecular genetics from the Pasteur Institute in France, Matthieu Ricard left his life in academia for the Himalayas, to study Tibetan Buddhism. His studies would eventually lead him to become the French... continued