15 Years Ago, Apple’s App Store Changed Everything. Now It Needs a Reboot.

Whereas I used to get excited about a new app on my iPhone, I now often resent being asked to download an app when I know that the website will work just as well and cause fewer disruptions or take up less space on my phone. adactio.com/links/20385 | Continue reading


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NASA Announces Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Mysterious Sightings Research Team

Administrator Bill Nelson previously announced the agency would look into reports of strange aerial phenomena. Now, the agency has announced its team. | Continue reading


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Meditation changes how your brain's neurons move

Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) shows promise as a way to treat addiction, but also implies that meditating can be useful outside that context. | Continue reading


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Webb Telescope’s First Mars Image Reveals a Troubled Planet

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a landscape of meteor impacts, massive eruptions, and flowing water. | Continue reading


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The oral history of Event Horizon

25 years later, seven key members of the production (including director Paul W.S. Anderson and writer Philip Eisner) reveal how 'Event Horizon' was born, died, and resurrected. | Continue reading


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A New Robotic Twist on the “Turing Test” Fools Human Subjects

This time it's more about body language. In a game of Simon Says, the human was fooled by a robotic companion a room over. | Continue reading


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YRs Ago a Stellar SCI-FI Show Saved a Broken Franchise and Changed TV History

The most successful reboot in science fiction history is easily 'Stargate: SG-1.' Here's how a great 1997 sci-fi show fixed a middling 1994 movie. | Continue reading


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Human settlements on the Moon will depend on answering two fundamental questions

In this edition of HORIZONS, read about two experiments headed to the Moon that could solve for mysteries of the Moon's geology and how humans could withstand life on our satellite. | Continue reading


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Xbox app for Samsung smart TVs proves the future of games is already here

Starting June 30, you won’t need a console to play Xbox games. But how does it play? Here's what we thought after taking the new Samsung smart TV app for a spin. | Continue reading


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70-year-old astronomy photos may be clues to alien visitors – study

The plates, taken prior to the launch of Sputnik in the 1950s, show satellite-like objects near Earth. A new study delves into the potential reasons. | Continue reading


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How the “Mother of Yoda” Conquered Hollywood – and Why She Disappeared

You might not recognize the name Wendy Froud (née Midener), but in the practical effects world, she’s a legend. Her work even earned her one of pop culture’s greatest monikers: the Mother of Yoda. | Continue reading


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Why Apple’s Steve Wozniak’s paradoxical plan to solve space junk just might work

Privateer, co-founded by Steve Wozniak, aims to make space environmentalism its business. Can it’s controversial methods really clean up space junk? | Continue reading


@inverse.com | 2 years ago

One fast charge in the Kia EV6 told me everything I needed to know

This is why the Kia EV6 will win top trumps at every EV charging station debate: because the high charging speeds resolve one of the biggest paint points of owning an electric vehicle. | Continue reading


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Living on the western of a time zone poses a higher health risk

Before clocks, humans lived more in sync. | Continue reading


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50 years ago, one sci-fi movie invented a pivotal new genre

One of the first and most impactful sci-fi films to tackle ecological crisis still resonates today. | Continue reading


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Astronomers looked at 260k stars to find alien megastructures in the Milky Way

Researchers calculated the maximum amount of Dyson Spheres in the Milky Way in order to know what it is they did not find. | Continue reading


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Alfa Romeo thinks attaching NFTs to cars can improve resale value

Is this just marketing buzzwords or an actually beneficial use of blockchain? Let's discuss Alfa Romeo's NFT announcement. | Continue reading


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Is Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua a Spaceship? A Probe Could Find Out

In October 2017, the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua passed through our Solar System, leaving a lot of questions in its wake. | Continue reading


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The Forgotten History of the Blinking Cursor

A blinking cursor follows us everywhere in the digital world, but who invented it and why? From block printing to the Apple II, this is the forgotten history of the blinking cursor | Continue reading


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NASA officially touches the Sun – and solves a solar mystery

NASA announced that the Parker Solar Probe went into the Sun's atmosphere, the closest encounter with our home star. | Continue reading


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Amateur radio launched the first private communications satellite

More than 50 years before the first CubeSat, a group of amateur radio hams built the worlds first, small, private communications satellite. | Continue reading


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The “disappearing” human microbiome – and the fraught push to preserve it

Humanity’s gut diversity is rapidly disappearing, but competing ideas on how to collect and study our microbiota raise my questions than answers. | Continue reading


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What Elon Musk's love of science fiction reveals about Tesla and SpaceX

Elon Musk is the co-founder of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and more. But Harvard professor Jill Lepore notes how his love of science fiction reveals a strange background. | Continue reading


@inverse.com | 2 years ago

Superhero cosplay makes you a better person for one science-backed reason

Research suggests we're hardwired to seek out tales of heroic adventures. Studies show just thinking about these characters can influence how we feel and act. | Continue reading


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75 Years Ago, a Nazi Rocket Took the First Photo of Earth from Space

The first photo of Earth taken from space is a grainy mess by today's standards, but it captured imaginations in 1946. | Continue reading


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XDream: Generating GAN images based on monkey neurofeedback

"They looked like objects in the world that were not in the world." | Continue reading


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A Physics Experiment May Have Unexpectedly Detected Dark Energy on Earth

Theoretical physicists think they may have made the first direct observation of dark energy — if the results stand up to scrutiny. | Continue reading


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Ex-Crew Dragon project lead reveals stark differences between SpaceX and NASA

Astronaut Garrett Reisman, who helped develop SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule, also has experience of working with NASA. | Continue reading


@inverse.com | 2 years ago

Human space travel owes everything to one forgotten creature

In 1951, the Aerobee-19 rocket launch proved it was possible to send creatures similar to humans to space and bring them back to Earth alive. | Continue reading


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Human virome: scientists say 380T viruses live inside of us

Our bodies are a breeding ground. | Continue reading


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The Stoned Ape Theory

A scientist resurfaces a psychedelic retelling of human evolution. | Continue reading


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A new sperm discovery could solve a male infertility problem

A study in mice which is forthcoming in the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" shows one gene is critical to regulating sperm motility. | Continue reading


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Sunday Scaries Why a Critical Part of the Gut May Be “The First Brain”

The enteric nervous system (ENS) is home to hundreds of thousands of individual neurons. Scientists finally know how these neurons "talk" to each other. | Continue reading


@inverse.com | 2 years ago

TSLP protein causes rapid fat loss via sebum secretion in mice

Researchers were surprised when mice being treated for diabetes ended up extra shiny — it seems they were secreting fat out through their skin. | Continue reading


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Neanderthal blood study hints at one possible reason they went extinct

Scientists analyze the blood groups of Denisovans and Neanderthals for the first time, leading to a better understanding of human evolution. | Continue reading


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Where is Starman? Tesla Roadster embarks on third orbit around the Sun

Elon Musk's electric car was sent on a tour of the Solar System in February 2018. This week, it completed its second orbit of the Sun. | Continue reading


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NASA’s Hubble telescope fiasco gives China an opportunity

NASA is no closer to figuring out what went wrong earlier in June, which is bad news for the telescope, which is the only one currently capable of visible light. | Continue reading


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A link between the gut and diet may mean a cure for an incurable disease

A mouse model from the University of Iowa shows that a diet rich in isoflavones mitigated the effects of multiple sclerosis. | Continue reading


@inverse.com | 2 years ago

A link between the gut and diet may mean a cure for an incurable disease

A mouse model from the University of Iowa shows that a diet rich in isoflavones mitigated the effects of multiple sclerosis. | Continue reading


@inverse.com | 2 years ago

Brain on Covid-19: Molecular changes appear similar to Alzheimer's disease

The most comprehensive molecular study to date of the brains of people who died of Covid-19 was published Monday in the journal "Nature." | Continue reading


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Europa may have this key factor for alien life

In three years, NASA will launch an orbiter to study Jupiter’s mysterious moon Europa. It is possible that Europa harbors hydrothermal vents and even life. | Continue reading


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New study debunks evolutionary theory explaining male and female bodies

Researchers studying the evolution of male and female human bodies look into farming's impact. | Continue reading


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How "pwned" went from hacker slang to internet's favorite taunt

If you use the internet, you’ve probably been pwned before. Here's where the term comes from, and what it actually means. | Continue reading


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Innovation SpaceX Starlink: How IT Could Kickstart an 'Uncontrolled Experiment

SpaceX has launched its latest batch of Starlink satellites — but it could have unintended consequences. | Continue reading


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Scientists identify the key to extending our human lifespan dramatically

A study in 'Nature Communications' combines data from blood analyses and information about physical exercise to identify a new measure influencing "biological age." | Continue reading


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Elon Musk’s Neuralink is “bad science fiction,” brain science pioneer says

In an interview, a leading pioneer in the field of brain-computer interfaces criticized Neuralink's recent forays in the field of neuroscience. | Continue reading


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The best time-travel show of all time is streaming for free right now

This sci-fi series set a new standard for time travel drama. It’s never been topped. | Continue reading


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A new study shows that deforestation is heavily linked to pandemic outbreaks

New research reveals a connection between deforestation and disease outbreaks. | Continue reading


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