Technology & Innovation

Some good ones this week. Did you make the cut? 

The study may help us develop a new biomarker for obesity and even type 2 diabetes.

Terrorism. Technological disruption. Globalization. Life in the 1870’s was wild. Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff on Joseph Conrad, his times, and ours.   

Predatory journals are so busy scamming scholars that seven big ones appointed a dog posing as a PhD to review submissions.

Physicists propose a new kind of space structure that can allow information to escape from black holes.

This research is helping scientists overcome a fundamental machine learning problem.

The FDA has approved the first pill with an embedded ingestible sensor that can track when, or if, a patient takes their medication. 

As the effects of climate change threaten to render coastal regions around the world uninhabitable, one company is developing a stylish – and very expensive – solution.

Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors unveiled its first-ever electric semi truck.

USC successfully tests an implanted memory prosthesis that improves biological human memory.

Researchers develop a next generation technique to control individual neurons in the brain, paving a new road towards curing brain disorders.

The gluten-free craze may be misguided since there’s another culprit behind bloating, says new research.  

From religion to democrats to… Whole Foods. Did you make the cut? 

This week’s Comment of the Week is about an interesting divide between political reality and our technology. See what else we liked! Did you make the cut? 

Scientists share that thing they want everyone to know on Twitter with the hashtag #MyOneScienceTweet.

From gun control to fun control, these were Big Think’s most excellent comments of the week. Be excellent to each other! 

Bending, breaking, & blending: How humans remake the world. Neuroscientist David Eagleman on creativity. 

CDP releases its 2017 A-List, that reveals more companies making serious efforts to combat climate change.

Scientists propose an out-of-the-box theory about why the world has no more than three dimensions.

Voters in California may get to decide whether teachers’ salaries should match those of state legislators at the expense of a hike in the sales tax.

This is a nice addition to the findings of the “yellow snow” study.

Another bit of science fiction is coming to life as scientists develop a highly elastic and adhesive surgical glue, similar to the one Ryan Gosling used to seal his wound in Blade Runner 2049.

Ukrainian military shows off a new robot that can see action against Russian-backed forces next year.

There is however, at least one caveat.

Researchers said this feat concludes “one of the major challenges in modern cosmology.”  

The secret behind the Em Drive’s thrust, which is real, may be in the long-discarded pilot wave theory.

While 50% of people say they’ve had a lucid dream, only 20% have them regularly.   

The results of this study may help scientists devise new drugs for pain and nicotine addiction.

Our phones often help promote depression and anxiety. These apps are fighting back. 

A study finds how hits from giant meteorites during Earth’s early days impacted plate tectonics and the planet’s magnetic field.