Scientists Claim Zapping Brains with Magnets Can Treat Belief in God
The Stream | October 15, 2015 By William M Briggs Here’s the breathless headline: “Scientists claim they can change your belief on immigrants and God…
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Feminists, get ready: Women’s uterus may become obsolete
The Guardian | October 12, 2015 By Eleanor Robertson Artificial wombs, able to gestate a foetus outside the body, will completely upend feminism’s accepted arguments…
Compulsive Texting Takes Toll on Teenagers
New York Times | October 12, 2015 By Roni Caryn Rabin Does your teenager have a texting problem?
Steel industry foresees high-tech future with fewer workers
NWI Times | October 12, 2015 By Joseph S. Pete In the future, the steel industry could be higher tech, with more robots and fewer…
Deleting genes could boost lifespan by 60 per cent, say scientists
The Telegraph | October 11, 2015 By Sarah Knapton The secret of extending life by decades may lie in switching off certain genes, scientists believe,…
DARPA’s New Biology Department: brain implants, bionic limbs and combat exoskeletons
Nature | June 10, 2015 By Sara Reardon When Geoffrey Ling talks about the future of technology, his ideas go flying around the room like…
Researchers Predicted In 1971 that Debit Cards Would Become the Ultimate Spy Tool
Washington’s Blog | May 23, 2015 “They imagined an electronic funds transfer system, or EFTS—a system that looks strikingly similar to the debit card system…