Science & Technology

Details: Written by: Sarina Gleason, Michigan State University

How To Spot Alternative Facts In Science The Volkswagen emissions scandal and past promotions of tobacco are two examples of “alternative facts” in science’s past, a researcher warns.

Details: Written by: Ylva Rodny-Gumede, University of Johannesburg

How The Internet Has Turned An Age-old Problem Into A New Threat The year 2016 will go down in history as the year in which fake news really took centre stage. It played a decisive role in major events such as the outcome of the US elections and the British Brexit vote.

Details: Written by: Katherine Gombay

Why Rival Theories About The Orgin Of Antarctica May Both Be True A new explanation for the origin of Antarctica links two competing theories.

Details: Written by: Dr. Joe Dispenza

An Infinite Number of Possible Realities: What You See is What You Get If you can imagine a future event in your life based on any one of your personal desires, that reality already exists as a possibility in the quantum field. This means that the quantum field contains a reality in which you are healthy, wealthy, and happy, and...

Details: Written by: Lara Merling, CEPR

Broadband in the US is Slower, More Expensive Than In Most OECD Countries While the U.S. is the birthplace of the Internet, it currently falls behind other countries in making high quality broadband connections widely available.

Details: Written by: Tom Oswald, Michigan State University

A Monitor That Finds The Source Of Polluted Air In Your Home Many indoor air pollutants are colorless and odorless, which means people often fail to detect them. A team of engineers at Michigan State University is testing a new technology...

Details: Written by: Amy Adams, Stanford University

Bits Of Your Brain Go To Sleep While You’re Awake When we are in a deep slumber our brain’s activity ebbs and flows in big, obvious waves, like watching a tide of human bodies rise up and sit down around a sports stadium.

Details: Written by: Andrew Myers, Stanford University

This Tiny WiFi Radio Could Get Us Closer To The Internet Of Things Until now, there’s been no way to control all sorts of devices, wirelessly, via the internet because there’s been no two-way radio smart and small enough to make this possible. A new technology called HitchHike could change that.

Details: Written by: Mark Shwartz, Stanford University

Which Electric Car Is Greener The Battery Or The Fuel Cell? Communities would be better off investing in electric vehicles that run on batteries instead of hydrogen fuel cells. The reason? Hydrogen offers few additional energy benefits besides clean transportation.

Details: Written by: Layne Cameron, Michigan State University

Food Additive Could Treat E. Coli Food Poisoning Polysorbate, a safe additive found in everything from ice cream to cosmetics, seems to slow the toxic effects of E. coli poisoning.

Details: Written by: Jason Maderer, Georgia Institute of Technology

Learn Morse Code In 4 Hours From Taps On Your Head A new system can teach people Morse code within four hours using a series of vibrations felt near the ear.

Details: Written by: Mark Shwartz,Stanford University

What's The Big Deal That Double Perovskite Solar Cells Could Rival Silicon A new design for solar cells that uses inexpensive, commonly available materials could rival and even outperform conventional cells made of silicon.

Details: Written by: Sean Nee, Pennsylvania State University

How Many Genes Does It Take To Make A Person? We humans like to think of ourselves as on the top of the heap compared to all the other living things on our planet.

Details: Written by: Daniel Prince, Lancaster University

What Is The Dark Web And How Does It Work? We often hear about the dark web being linked to terrorist plots, drug deals, knife sales and child pornography, but beyond this it can be hard to fully understand how the dark web works and what it looks like.

Details: Written by: Nancy du Tertre

Your Brain Has Been Lying to You! Did you know that you actually “see” the world upside down? Well, you do. You just don’t know it because your brain has fiddled around with your perceptions so that you think you see the world right-side up. This is one of many examples of how the brain rethinks what it sees.

Details: Written by: Geoff Cumming, La Trobe University

One Reason Some Scientific Studies May Be Wrong There is a replicability crisis in science – unidentified “false positives” are pervading even our top research journals.

Details: Written by: Megan Fellman, Northwestern University

New COF Material Could Mean Electric Cars Charge Faster An electric car currently relies on a complex interplay of both batteries and supercapacitors to provide the energy it needs to go places. But chemists are developing a new material that could change that.

Details: Written by: Mark Levine, University of Exeter

How To Win Friends And Influence People Using Robots Despite being trapped in Moscow, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden often ambles through meeting rooms and conference halls in New York City.

Details: Written by: Suzanne McGowan, University of Nottingham

DNA Sheds Light On How Humans First Reached America Modern humans started spreading from Africa to Europe, Asia and Australia some 100,000 years ago – a process that took about 70,000 years.

Details: Written by: Peter Byrley, University of California, Riverside

hydrogen from water9 9 With hydrogen power stations in California, a new Japanese consumer car and portable hydrogen fuel cells for electronics, hydrogen as a zero emission fuel source is now finally becoming a reality for the average consumer.

Details: Written by: Ann McNamara, Texas A&M University

How Does A Computer Know Where You're Looking? Imagine driving a car, using a heads-up display projection on the windshield to navigate through an unfamiliar city