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Oct 29, 2018

Study: Religious fundamentalists and dogmatic individuals are more likely to believe fake news

Posted by in categories: internet, military

The study, which appears in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, suggests that the inability to detect false information is related to a failure to be actively open-minded.


New research provides evidence that delusion-prone individuals, dogmatic individuals, and religious fundamentalists are more likely to believe fake news. The study, which appears in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, suggests that the inability to detect false information is related to a failure to be actively open-minded.

The rise of online social media has led to growing concerns about the spread of unsubstantiated rumors, misleading political propaganda, and blatantly false articles designed to create viral web traffic. Even the U.S. Army has become involved in efforts to understand and combat disinformation in cyberspace.

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Oct 29, 2018

Robots to Make Robots at One of the World’s Most Advanced Facilities

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

A factory where robots make robots is surely the stuff of nightmares for those living in fear of the dreaded uprising. But putting apocalyptic horrors aside for a moment, ABB’s new site could be one of the most advanced facilities of its kind when it opens in 2020 with plans to make 100,000 robots a year.

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Oct 28, 2018

Groundbreaking new technology could allow 100-times-faster internet

Posted by in category: internet

Broadband fiber-optics carry information on pulses of light, at the speed of light, through optical fibers. But the way the light is encoded at one end and processed at the other affects data speeds.

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Oct 28, 2018

The Final Days Of NASA’s Dawn

Posted by in category: space

The end could happen “any minute now,” says the space agency.

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Oct 28, 2018

DARPA Wants to Build Computers With ‘Common Sense’

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

It’s one of the many programs the agency will fund under its $2 billion next-generation artificial intelligence initiative.

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Oct 28, 2018

Hubble telescope is back to normal operations, NASA says

Posted by in category: space

Welcome back, Hubble!


NASA said the Hubble Space Telescope has returned to normal operations after issues with a gyroscope knocked the device into safe mode.

The telescope completed its first observations Saturday, capturing information on a distant, star-forming galaxy, the agency said.

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Oct 28, 2018

PH’s second microsatellite launched into space today

Posted by in category: space

By Pol Justin Marquez and Dhel Nazario

The Philippines will launch today the DIWATA-2 microsatellite, marking the country’s third venture into space under the P840-million PHL-MICROSAT Program of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

SPACE-BOUND – A drawing of the DIWATA-2 microsatellite which will be launched by a Japanese rocket today, marking the Philippines’ third venture into space.

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Oct 28, 2018

‘18 Miles’ is full of interesting tales about Earth’s atmosphere

Posted by in category: climatology

The new book ‘18 Miles’ takes readers on a journey through the atmosphere and the history of understanding climate and weather.

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Oct 28, 2018

The Tiny Satellites That Might Fly to Another Solar System

Posted by in category: satellites

Scientists hope the world’s smallest satellites will boldly go where no probe has gone before.

Ben Bishop

During an interview at a Boston- area café, Zac Manchester apologized for not bringing along a copy of his latest satellite — one of many duplicates due to enter orbit this fall during a mission to the International Space Station. “Don’t worry,” says Manchester, a Stanford University professor of aeronautics and astronautics. “I’ll put one in an envelope and mail it to you.”

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Oct 28, 2018

Creams remove skin sun spots with minimal pain and may prevent cancer

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Sun spots – or actinic keratoses – are caused by UV light. Now people are using medicated creams to remove them before they have a chance to turn cancerous.

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