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Nov 21, 2019

Global Protests Reveal Bitcoin’s Limitations

Posted by in category: bitcoin

Protests in Hong Kong, Lebanon, and Iran have forced cypherpunks to test censorship resistant technologies in the wild.

Nov 21, 2019

Ultrasensitive protein method lets scientists ID someone from a single strand of hair

Posted by in category: futurism

Heavily shedding criminals, beware.

Nov 21, 2019

Scans show how the brain is able to rewire itself after half of it is removed

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

The brain scans of six patients who’ve had half of their brain removed to treat severe epilepsy have left doctors in awe.

Nov 21, 2019

Boeing’s 1st Starliner Space Capsule Rolls Out to Launch Site for Test Flight

Posted by in category: space

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew capsule left the processing facility for the launch pad where it will begin its first journey to space.

Nov 21, 2019

Mission: Impossible comes true as hyper-realistic masks get so good they can fool us

Posted by in category: futurism

More human than human.

Nov 21, 2019

The Fifth Force of Nature Could Be Real and Fantastic

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

In 2016, Attila Krasznahorkay made news around the world when his team published its discovery of evidence of a fifth force of nature. Now, the scientists are making news again with a second observation of the same force, which may be the beginning of a unified fifth force theory. The researchers have made their original LaTeX paper available prior to acceptance by a peer-reviewed journal. Study of the hypothesized fifth force, a subfield all by itself, is centered on trying to explain missing pieces in our understanding of physics, like dark matter, which could be expanded or validated by an important new discovery or piece of evidence.

Nov 21, 2019

Penn State’s SETI Center Could Legitimize Alien Research

Posted by in category: alien life

It could provide the structure and funding needed to hunt down ET.

Nov 21, 2019

DNA Analysis of Ancient Rome Reveals a Cosmopolitan Megacity

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Roman citizens came from Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa and beyond. The ancient metropolis was a bone fide melting pot.

Nov 21, 2019

Is There Actually Science Behind ‘Dopamine Fasting’?

Posted by in categories: neuroscience, science

The trendy concept of “dopamine fasting” actually finds its roots in established addiction therapies.

Nov 21, 2019

‘Shocking’ spike of HPV-related cancer in younger men worries researchers

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

They found 68,809 cases of anal cancer and 12,111 deaths from the disease.

The vast majority of these cases are associated with the human papillomavirus, but about three-quarters of American adults don’t know HPV causes the disease, a recent study, also led by Deshmukh, found.

He called the findings “shocking.”