Image: Imperial College London/DNA Electronics Scientists in the UK have developed a USB stick that can quickly and accurately measure the amount of HIV is in a patient’s blood. The medical device was created by scientists at Imperial College London…
Based on the search strings that trended for November 9th, the world turned to Google in an effort to understand the President-elect’s surprise win and the United States’ complicated voting system. Google Trends posted the most popular searches after Donald…
Until this morning I never knew Speed Flying existed as a sport, but now that I’ve done a little research it appears to be a unique combination of parachuting/skydiving and wingsuit flying/BASE jumping. You run and jump off a cliff…
After cracking jokes about the new president-elect Donald Trump and suggesting Elizabeth Warren grieve with a neck tattoo, Stephen Colbert offered a message of unity during his monologue Wednesday night. Colbert urged viewers who want to move up north to…
The “Mars Show Home” will be on display at the Royal Observatory until November 16.Edith Hancock Everyone from astronomers to tech companies wants to know what it would be like to live on Mars. From growing vegetables in Martian soil,…
ESO Astronomers have used a powerful mountaintop observatory to record three of the most detailed photos yet of infant alien solar systems forming planets. The scientists were even able to see “intriguing” shadows cast by clouds of gas and dust in…
Via Lisa S. I don’t need to tell you bros that the type of sex you have throughout your life changes over time, everybody knows this. When you first lose your v-card I think most people go through an intense…
A robot called the Sub1 Reloaded can unscramble a Rubik’s Cube in 637 milliseconds – considerably less than the fastest human time of 4.9 seconds. The robot, built by self-driving chipmaker Infineon, uses six motors to turn and twist the…
The success of services like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions is indisputable. It’s not for all use cases, of course, but the technology is intriguing, easy to implement and developers (and sysadmins!) can leverage it to offload…
If you don’t recall Google’s Project Soli, you’re forgiven – the project was unveiled at Google I/O in 2015, and while potentially very cool, we haven’t heard much about it since. Soli uses tiny radar units to detect gesture input…