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IKEA introduces biodegradable packaging

The IKEA company has recently announced that it will cease packaging any of its products in polystyrene plastics of any kind. While plastics are created from petroleum, the new biodegradable packaging, known as mycelium or “mushroom packaging” can actually be placed in your garden and yard and it will melt right into the soil and …

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Students building a satellite with NASA funding

A small team of about fifty students at the The University of Massachusetts at Lowell have been given a $200,000 grant from NASA to construct their own space orbiting satellite. The satellite is expected to launch some time in 2018. The fifty or so engineering and science student at UMass Lowell have been working on …

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The common cold came from camels?

According to modern medicine, there are four different coronaviruses that have proven responsible for what humans refer to as the common cold. Recently, however, a team of researches has traced at least one of those coronaviruses to camels and that humans contracted it directly from them. The findings were a bit of a shock to …

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Study finds identical twins live longest

Recent research carried out at the University of Washington has discovered that identical twins, and most remarkably, male identical twins, actually live longer than the general non- multiple birth populations. The research team studied almost 3,000 pairs of twins from Denmark. They gathered their data from the Danish Twin Registry which keeps the most comprehensive …

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Nanorobots proven to destroy cancer cells

New research out of the McGill University in Montreal, as well as Montreal University, has demonstrated that scientists have created microscopic nanorobots that can directly target cancer cells in the body with drugs that will destroy the cells. The nanorobots get to the cancer cells through the patients bloodstream. The nanorobots can deliver the drugs …

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People allergic to this world head for Snowflake, AZ

The tiny town of Snowflake, Arizona has become a safe haven of sorts for nearly 5,000 people. These are people who, it seems, have extreme allergies to life here on Earth. People from all over the world come here to try and overcome life threatening allergies and afflictions from such things as wi-fi, pesticides, electromagnetic …

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Hacker proof quantum satellite launched by the Chinese

This week, China launched the first quantum communications satellite ever. The Chinese declare that the communication satellite is completely hacker proof. The Chinese want to be able to have satellite communications that can’t be breached by anyone and they believe they have accomplished that. The Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) spacecraft lifted off on …

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Physicists may have found 5th force of nature

A team of theoretical physicists at the University of California at Irvine have announced that they may have discovered a fifth force of nature that has been hidden inside of a particular particle and has gone unnoticed by physicists until now. Their findings were recently published and, if can be supported by peer review and …

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Hacker group auctioning off stolen NSA surveillance tools

An underground hacker group known as the Shadow Brokers have announced that they are prepared to auction off, to the highest bidder, certain stolen surveillance tools they say were used specifically by a covert cyber group closely linked to the United States National Security Agency (NSA). The announcement by the group was made on August …

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Dutch build robots that can reproduce

It seems like the Dutch have done it again. It seems that they have built robots that can actually mate and reproduce robot offspring. Research scientists based in Amsterdam have created a process that now allows two robots to artificially mate and produce robot babies. It seems that building robots to replace human workers isn’t …

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