A single gene mutation may have helped humans become optimal long-distance runners https://phys.org/news/2018-09-gene-mutation-humans-optimal-long-distance.html A Massive Floating Boom Is Supposed To Clean Up The Pacific. Can It Work? https://www.npr.org/2018/09/11/646724291/a-massive-floating-boom-is-supposed-to-clean-up-the-pacific-can-it-work Safe artificial intelligence requires cultural intelligence https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/11/safe-artificial-intelligence-requires-cultural-intelligence/ Had They Bet On Nuclear, Not Renewables, Germany & California Would Already Have 100% Clean Power https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/09/11/had-they-bet-on-nuclear-not-renewables-germany-california-would-already-have-100-clean-power/#e0601a1e0d44 How California could […]

3 things to expect from Global Climate Change Summit https://www.kcra.com/article/3-things-to-expect-from-global-climate-change-summit/23072410 DARPA Next-Generation Neurotechnology and breakthroughs from Neuralink and Open Water Red light scanner https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/09/darpa-next-generation-neurotechnology-and-breakthroughs-from-neuralink-and-open-water-red-light-scanner.html Dozens of iOS apps surreptitiously share user location data with tracking firms https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/09/dozens-of-ios-apps-surreptitiously-share-user-location-data-with-tracking-firms/ Discovered: Optimal magnetic fields for suppressing instabilities in tokamaks https://phys.org/news/2018-09-optimal-magnetic-fields-suppressing-instabilities.html Bursting people’s political bubbles could make them even […]

“Move fast and break things” is broken https://qz.com/1380490/move-fast-and-break-things-is-broken/ Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/ Wall Street’s embrace could break Bitcoin https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611981/wall-streets-embrace-could-break-bitcoin/ Anti-aging medicine is so hot even this controversial idea has investors https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611980/anti-aging-medicine-is-so-hot-even-this-controversial-idea-has-investors/ Security News This Week: Ibm Made Cops A Tool To Search Surveillance Video By Skin Color https://www.wired.com/story/ibm-made-cops-a-tool-to-search-surveillance-video-by-skin-color/ […]

Facebook, Twitter Execs Admit Failures, Warn of ‘Overwhelming’ Threat to Elections https://gizmodo.com/facebook-twitter-execs-admit-failures-warn-of-overwhe-1828829221 Can you turn CO2 on Mars into sugar? NASA will give $1 million to the person who can. https://bigthink.com/brandon-weber/think-you-can-turn-co2-on-mars-into-sugar-nasa-will-offer-1-million Researchers to Release Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes in Africa for First Time https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/researchers-to-release-genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-in-africa-for-first-time/ More people are taking Facebook breaks and deleting the app from their […]

Four questions Silicon Valley should expect from Capitol Hill https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611984/four-questions-silicon-valley-should-expect-from-capitol-hill/ IT’S TIME TO BREAK UP FACEBOOK https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/4/17816572/tim-wu-facebook-regulation-interview-curse-of-bigness-antitrustGoogle bosses expected to snub Senate https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45416878 Google Reportedly Bought Your Banking Data in Secret, and That’s Not Even the Bad News https://gizmodo.com/google-reportedly-secretly-bought-your-banking-data-an-1828341605 Those airport security bins carry more germs than the toilets, scientists say https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2018/09/04/those-airport-security-bins-carry-more-germs-than-toilets-scientists-say/?utm_term=.708fbf64478c Russian space chief […]

Microsoft is making its suppliers give paid parental leave https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611972/microsoft-is-making-its-suppliers-give-paid-parental-leave/ The never-ending battle over the best office temperature http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160617-the-never-ending-battle-over-the-best-office-temperature Revolução dos ônibus elétricos chega à Europa https://economia.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,revolucao-dos-onibus-eletricos-chega-a-europa,70002483587 The surprising origins of the TV remote http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180830-the-history-of-the-television-remote-contro Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba-microwave.html Is Our Food Becoming Less Nutritious? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl_K2Ata6XY&ab_channel=Veritasium

Scooter firms get a lesson in manners https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45364604 Small Air Leak Detected on International Space Station https://www.space.com/41676-space-station-small-pressure-leak.html What if Emailing During Your Commute Counted as Work? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/world/europe/uk-commuting-work-wi-fi.html Emails while commuting ‘should count as work’ https://www.bbc.com/news/education-45333270 The four ways that ex-internet idealists explain where it all went wrong https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611805/the-four-ways-that-ex-internet-idealists-explain-where-it-all-went-wrong/ The woman who founded the ‘incel’ movement […]

THE SECRET GARDENHow Google Earth led a team of scientists to discover an untouched mountaintop rainforest https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/28/17770988/google-earth-mount-lico-discovery-secret-mozambique-rainforest-expedition Como os horários de refeição influenciam sua qualidade de vida https://g1.globo.com/ciencia-e-saude/noticia/2018/08/30/como-os-horarios-de-refeicao-influenciam-sua-qualidade-de-vida.ghtml The vast scale of Iran’s online propaganda machine is becoming clearer https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611956/the-vast-scale-of-irans-online-propaganda-machine-is-becoming-clearer/ Elon Musk repeats “pedophile” accusations against man who’s getting ready to sue him https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-ignores-tesla-board-and-keeps-tweeting/ Climate […]

California advances an ambitious climate policy that should be a model for the world https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611945/california-advances-an-ambitious-climate-policy-that-should-be-a-model-for-the-world/ Renewable energy sources can take up to 1000 times more space than fossil fuels https://phys.org/news/2018-08-renewable-energy-sources-space-fossil.html A Squishy Border Dispute, Deep Below Texas And Mexico https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/a-squishy-border-dispute-deep-below-texas-and-mexico/ First-Ever Evidence of Higgs Boson Decay Opens New Doors for Particle Physics https://www.livescience.com/63455-higgs-decays-to-bottom-quarks.html Physics Milestone […]

Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism’s Imminent Demise https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pek3/scientists-warn-the-un-of-capitalisms-imminent-demise 23andme Data Suggests Genetic Link Between Cannabis Use And Schizophrenia https://www.newsweek.com/data-23andme-genetic-cannabis-schizophrenia-1092043 In Psychology And Other Social Sciences, Many Studies Fail The Reproducibility Test https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/08/27/642218377/in-psychology-and-other-social-sciences-many-studies-fail-the-reproducibility-te China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/health/china-flu-virus-samples.html Beluga whales and narwhals go through menopause, too https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/08/27/beluga-whales-narwhals-go-through-menopause-too/?utm_term=.33417069f5cc A New Trick […]