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By Rich Haridy – 2nd Place, Panorama. Monument, Monument Valley, iPhone 6S. “View from Artist’s Point in Monument Valley, where the ground falls away steeply and the flat land stretches ahead for many miles, punctuated by the peaks of buttes, mesas and pinnacles …
By Rich Haridy – 2nd Place, Big Nose. Myjava, Trenčín, Slovakia. “This tiny snout beetle is actually a ‘true’ weevil of the family Curculionidae. I located it at about 6am in the morning in Myjava when I shot in manual mode to …
By David Szondy – Dragonfly brains could serve as models for more efficient missile defenses. (Credit: OndrejProsicky/Depositphotos). Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories led by computational neuroscientist Frances Chance are looking to the common dragonfly for clues to develop smaller, more efficient missile …
Three experts explain the popular diet’s impact on aging and disease. By Alexandra Pattillo – Intermittent fasting: diet trend, Silicon Valley practice, religious ritual, and now, maybe, long-term health regimen? Intermittent fasting (IF) has been around for centuries but only penetrated the mainstream …
By Michael Irving – Evidence of two unknown, archaic human species has turned up in our DNA. (Credit: sprestiges/Depositphotos). Fossils are the most reliable way we can piece together the history of humans, but some clues have been inside us all along. …
By Nick Lavars – Not a weird mushroom, but a solar steam generator that desalinates water using sunlight. (Credit: Yun Xia/Monash University). Current approaches to water desalination are tremendously expensive and energy-intensive, so the search is very much on for new technologies that can get …
By Mike Hanlon – The first car to reach Rouen was a De Dion-Bouton steam tractor and single-axle passenger trailer driven by Count Jules-Albert de Dion himself, but was disqualified because it needed someone to tend the boiler. (Credit: Mercedes-Benz). This week …
“We are starting to have enough information about them to certainly be concerned.” By Sarah Sloat – American girls are now going through puberty significantly earlier than in decades prior, a trend that’s been linked to physiological and psychological risks. The various …
By Nick Lavars – Peloton calls its newly announced technology Automated Following. (Credit: Peloton). Trucking is an industry that could be shaped significantly by autonomous vehicle tech in the coming years, and enabling heavy haulers to roll along in tight formations known …
“YouTube, for many people, is the new Wikipedia.” By Sarah Sloat – YouTube provides a buffet of content to its one billion users. That content isn’t always information, even if it appears to be at first glance. Through its algorithm, the video-sharing website …
