Scientists peered into the brains of mice and saw something about Alzheimer's they hadn't seen before.

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Submitted on March 27th 2017 by gladsdotter

When the head of a small Italian museum called Detective Inspector Alexander Horn of the Munich Police, she asked him if he investigated cold cases.

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Submitted on March 26th 2017 by LisMan

Have you ever stood in a high place and felt the urge to jump?

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Submitted on March 30th 2017 by imokruok

After more than two years of landing its rockets after launch, SpaceX finally sent one of its used Falcon 9s back into space. The rocket took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this evening.

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Submitted on March 30th 2017 by baron778 with 1 Related Links:

1. SpaceX: Falcon 9 first stage has landed on Of Course I Still Love You — world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket. Added by ivangro on March 30th 2017.

The long read: The population is getting older and the welfare state can no longer keep up. After two months talking to people in Britain about retirement, it’s clear that old age is an increasingly scary prospect

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Submitted on March 29th 2017 by gladsdotter with 2 comments and with 1 Related Links:

1. A brief history on retirement. Added by Appaloosa on March 29th 2017.

By middle age, the lenses in your eyes harden, becoming less flexible. Your eye muscles increasingly struggle to bend them to focus on this print. But a new form of training — brain retraining, really — may delay the inevitable age-related loss of close-range visual focus so that you won’t need reading glasses. Various studies say it works, though no treatment of any kind works for everybody.

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Submitted on March 28th 2017 by gladsdotter

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a quasar named 3C 186 that is offset from the center of its galaxy. Astronomers hypothesize that this supermassive black hole was jettisoned from the center of its galaxy by the recoil from gravitational waves produced by the merging of two supermassive black holes.

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Submitted on March 25th 2017 by NotWearingPants with 1 comments

Lo and behold, flying machines straight out of a Jetsons cartoon are set to become a reality. Think Uber but as a boat which hovers above the water– so basically, a flying boat taxi, right here along the Paris Seine River..

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Submitted on March 25th 2017 by tranxene

Here's how to catch a black hole. First, spend many years enlisting eight of the top radio observatories across four continents to join forces for an unprecedented hunt. Next, coordinate plans so that those observatories will simultaneously turn their attention to the same patches of sky for several days. Then, collect observations at a scale never before attempted in science — generating 2 petabytes of data each night.

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Submitted on March 26th 2017 by funhonestdude

Those jeans you pull on before running out to the corner store were produced by one of the most toxic industries on the planet, according to a new documentary that explores how clothing manufacturers are poisoning the world's water supply. The documentary "RiverBlue" highlights the environmental and human damage caused by the fashion industry, which uses highly toxic chemicals to produce 80 billion garments worldwide each year, while using 3.2 per cent of the world's fresh water.

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Submitted on March 29th 2017 by ppp

It’s hard to tell whether hypnotism is real. Now researchers have used a trick of the mind to show that hypnotised people’s actions really do feel involuntary

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Submitted on March 27th 2017 by kxh

The Office of International Climate and Clean Energy is the only office at DOE with the words "climate" in its name, and it may be endangered as Trump looks to reorganize government agencies.

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Submitted on March 30th 2017 by ppp with 1 comments

I’ve done a lot of writing and research recently about the bright future of AI: that it’ll be able to analyze human emotions, understand social nuances, conduct medical treatments and diagnoses that overshadow the best human physicians, and in general make many human workers redundant and unnecessary. I still stand behind all of these forecasts, but they are meant for the long term – twenty or thirty years into the future.

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Submitted on March 29th 2017 by bradd

Picking up a quest abandoned by Big Pharma, academic labs are using new disruptive technology to develop contraceptive drugs for men.

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Submitted on March 28th 2017 by swift528491

POW! BAM! Fruit flies battling like martial arts masters are helping scientists map brain circuits. This research could shed light on human aggression and depression.

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Submitted on March 30th 2017 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

The ability to remember sounds, and manipulate them in our minds, is incredibly important to our daily lives -- without it we would not be able to understand a sentence, or do simple arithmetic. New research is shedding light on how sound memory works in the brain, and is even demonstrating a means to improve it. One day this stimulation could compensate for the loss of memory caused by neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.

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Submitted on March 28th 2017 by tranxene

High concentrations of the stress hormone, Cortisol, in the body affect important DNA processes and increase the risk of long-term psychological consequences. These relationships are evident in a study from the Sahlgrenska Academy on patients with Cushing's Syndrome, but the findings also open the door for new treatment strategies for other stress-related conditions such as anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress.

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Submitted on March 28th 2017 by ticktack

In California, radical scientists and billionaire backers think the technology to extend life – by uploading minds to exist separately from the body – is only a few years away. Here’s what happens. You are lying on an operating table, fully conscious, but rendered otherwise insensible, otherwise incapable of movement. A humanoid machine appears at your side, bowing to its task with ceremonial formality. With a brisk sequence of motions, the machine removes a large panel of bone from the rear...

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Submitted on March 26th 2017 by drunkenninja with 1 comments

Doctors have been using the 1980s video game in a UK emergency department.

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Submitted on March 28th 2017 by Gozzin

A group of wasps with a gruesome lifestyle has just gained 15 new members. Like their kin, the newbies make a habit of laying their eggs in developing insects.

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Submitted on March 30th 2017 by lostwonder