Two hundred miles from the Earth, British astronaut Tim Peake ran, and finished, the London Marathon on Sunday from the International Space Station. He ran 26.2 miles in a time of 3:35:21. Not only did he accomplish the feat, but, via video link up, he officially started the race. The challenge with running the London …
Two medical research studies over the course of the last year have discovered that over the counter allergy and common cold medicines will shrink the size of the human brain and greatly increase the dangers of developing Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia. The research team at the University of Indiana School of Medicine …
Scientists at the University of Binghamton, in New York, have recently completed research that has determined that brainwaves may just be the way people will be identified in the future making fingerprints obsolete. Their research is scheduled for publication in July. The researchers claim that not only are these brain scans, these “brainprints”, accurate but …
The United States military has upped the ante in its cyber war against the Islamic State. It is a far more extensive and destructive hacking campaign than what many have been led to believe. Last week, President Obama said that the U.S. was performing cyber operations in the hope of infiltrating and disturbing the Islamic …
The next time you are in a public restroom and you have the choice between using the forced hot air hand dryer and plain old paper towels, you may think twice before placing your hands under the hand dryer. According to recent research done at the University of Westminster, in England, forced hot air hand …
Five years after the devastating tsunami and the destruction and meltdown of the nuclear power plants at Fukushima, Japan, the radiation levels are so high and so extreme that nothing can survive in the area for long. This, apparently, included the specially designed and built robots being used for the recovery efforts. The radiation levels …
The war over data privacy between American corporations and the federal government heated up again late last week as Microsoft brought a law suit against the United States Justice Department. The battle continues between a federal government that wants unlimited access to everything and American companies that seek to protect the data and digital privacy …
It is the first known instance of what is being called “limb animation” and it has been performed by doctors at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center on a 24 year old quadriplegic man. Through a computer chip implanted in the man’s brain, doctor’s have given him the use of one of his hands back. Ian …
The researchers at the Honeywell Aerospace company have been working at a frantic pace over the last year or so to perfect technology they have developed that may soon allow for mind controlled aircraft. Their scientific advances seem rather unbelievable yet their research and development wants to reach further to encompass the possibility that brain …
There is a bill currently being proposed in the New York state legislature that, if it becomes law, will allow the police to search your cell phone at the site of a traffic stop or an accident. The device is the creation of an Israeli company called Cellebrite and it is designed to allow police …