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In the latest evidence that it’s worth sticking to your health-focused New Year’s resolutions, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found that exercising regularly is linked to better eating habits. Want Healthier Eating Habits? Start with a workout. - UT News - UT News

'Companies are spending thousands and thousands of dollars on team-building activities, and I’m thinking, go buy an Xbox,' says one of the reasearchers. Collaborative Video Games Increase Office Productivity, Study Finds

Steven Pruitt has made nearly 3 million edits on Wikipedia and written 35,000 original articles. It's earned him not only accolades but almost legendary status on the internet. The online encyclopedia now boasts more than 5. Meet the man behind a third of what's on Wikipedia - CBS News

At present, the majority of wearable biomarker sensors require onboard batteries to power them. While that’s perfectly acceptable for some use cases, it’s not as well-suited for tasks such as continuous tracking for medical purposes. Battery-Free Biosensor Measures Your Health by Drinking Your Sweat | Digita

The old adage "use it or lose it" tells us: if you stop using your muscles, they'll shrink. Until recently, scientists thought this meant that nuclei - the cell control centers that build and maintain muscle fibers - are also lost to sloth. Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma | EurekAlert! Scienc

If you bled when you brushed your teeth this morning, you might want to get that seen to. We may finally have found the long-elusive cause of Alzheimer’s disease: Porphyromonas gingivalis, the key bacteria in chronic gum disease. That’s bad, as gum disease affects around a third of all people. We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and how to stop it | New Scie

NEW DELHI — High in the Himalayas, Sikkim is one of the tiniest states in India. But it is about to embark on an experiment of global interest. Sikkim’s ruling party has announced an ambitious plan to implement a universal basic income for every one of its 610,577 citizens. Tiny Indian state proposes world’s biggest experiment with guaranteed incom

Scientists Kept Rats Sober by Deleting Memories of Cocaine

OK, so my 10-year-old kid could board an advanced U.S. Navy submarine and operate the periscope? That seems to be the pretty cool assumption based on the fact that sailors are now using Xbox 360 controllers to perform functions aboard some vessels. U.S. Navy swapping $38,000 periscope joysticks for $30 Xbox controllers on

The early universe was filled with strange and mysterious objects. Shortly after the Big Bang, large clouds of material may have formed black holes directly, without first coalescing into stars as we see today. Four Types of Stars That Will Not Exist for Billions or Even Trillions of Y

By 2050, almost six billion air conditioners could eat 37% of global electricity, according to the International Energy Agency. That's because as India and China get richer -- and the planet gets hotter -- people around the globe are buying A/C units at levels approaching the United States. This Dutch Startup Converts Heat Into Cold Via A Stirling Engine, And Could

The speedometer climbs as we race down a straightaway in Humble, Texas. As the needle edges to 60, 70, then 80 miles per hour, the 36-year-old automobile rattles and the wind whistles through the windows. Inside the Car Company That's Resurrecting the DeLorean

The U.S. Navy recently asked Congress for $139 billion to update its fleet of nuclear-powered submarines. Unlike “conventional” submarines, which need to surface frequently, nuclear submarines can cruise below the sea at high speeds for decades without ever needing to refuel. Why There Are No Nuclear Airplanes - The Atlantic

Carbon-dioxide emissions from the United States spiked sharply in 2018, bucking a three-year trend and making it more likely that the country will fail to meet its promises under the Paris Agreement on climate change, according to a preliminary analysis published Tuesday. U.S. Carbon Pollution Surged in 2018 - The Atlantic

In this recently released TEDMED talk, Gunhild Stordalen explores the powerful connections between food, health and climate. EAT Stockholm Food Forum, June 12-13. Home - EAT

On October 19, 2017, astronomers at the University of Hawaii spotted a strange object travelling through our solar system, which they later described as “a red and extremely elongated asteroid. Have Aliens Found Us? An Interview with the Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb Abo

To startup founder and Stanford Medical School graduate Jesse Karmazin, blood is the next big government-approved drug. Ambrosia: 'Young blood' transfusions accepting PayPal payments, operating i

The effect of exercise on health is profound. It can protect you from a range of conditions, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers. But the type and amount of exercise you should do changes as you age. How to stay healthy and active in every decade of your life — Quartzy

Antanas Mockus had just resigned from the top job of Colombian National University. A mathematician and philosopher, Mockus looked around for another big challenge and found it: to be in charge of, as he describes it, “a 6.5 million person classroom.” Academic turns city into a social experiment – Harvard Gazette

(CNN) -- Twinkies. Nutty bars. Powdered donuts. For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets every three hours, instead of meals. Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds - CNN.com

Those are the hardest words I’ve ever had to write. Nobody knows that number—not my wife, not my doctor, not my closest friends. It feels like confessing a crime. The average American male weighs about 195 pounds; I’m two of those guys, with a 10-year-old left over. Weight Loss Is a Rock Fight - The Atlantic

Some people can walk into a room and instantly put everyone at ease. Others seem to make teeth clench and eyes roll no matter what they do. A small body of psychology research supports the idea that the way a person tends to make others feel is a consistent and measurable part of his personality. 'Affective Presence': How You Make Other People Feel - The Atlantic

Mind time and clock time are two totally different things. They flow at varying rates. The chronological passage of the hours, days, and years on clocks and calendars is a steady, measurable phenomenon. Physics explains why time passes faster as you age — Quartz

I have a pretty strong stomach. Roller coasters are my jam. Virtual reality never makes me queasy. No technology at CES had ever made me nauseous -- until I ate fake beef tartare made from Impossible Burger 2.0. Impossible Burger 2.0 tastes so real it made this vegetarian's stomach turn

Despite overwhelming scientific evidence that vaccines are a safe and effective tool for the prevention of childhood diseases, a significant minority of the U.S. population remains skeptical of the practice, as evidenced by persistence of the anti-vax movement. Hysteresis: The Phenomenon Behind the Anti-vax Movement

“Look! We see FRBs,” Deborah Good, an astronomer at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, told a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, Washington, on 7 January. Bevy of mysterious fast radio bursts spotted by Canadian telescope

The American Economy Is Rigged - Scientific American

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My curiosity was piqued by an LWN article about IOCB_CMD_POLL - A new kernel polling interface. It discusses an addition of a new polling mechanism to Linux AIO API, which was merged in 4.18 kernel. The whole idea is rather intriguing. io_submit: The epoll alternative you've never heard about

Direct annual comparisons are to be avoided as there are too many factors involved. For more information view the help. Send comments about the map to Jurij Stare Light pollution map

But the video that Microsoft produced in 2009, imagining what technology would look like in 2019, isn’t the massively embarrassing tech giant equivalent to a senior photo that I expected. The decade-old video, which was recently unearthed by Reddit, feels oddly contemporary. What Microsoft thought the future would look like in 2019

Using a common type of brain scan, researchers programmed a machine-learning algorithm to diagnose early-stage Alzheimer’s disease about six years before a clinical diagnosis is made – potentially giving doctors a chance to intervene with treatment. Artificial Intelligence Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease in Brain Scans Six Y

Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their behaviour. People use their brains to remember. An ant colony has memories that its individual members don’t have - Big Thi

This year, your new year’s resolution should be to take your niche interests out of the closet. Who cares if they’re weird or super random? If you love paper dolls or secretly want to be a clown, you should learn more about them. The Weirdest & Most Obscure Conventions In America — OK Whatever - Weird Ne

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — The strange class of materials known as quasicrystals has a new member. In a paper published on Thursday, Dec. Chemists create new quasicrystal material from nanoparticle building blocks

Depending on how paranoid you are, this research from Stanford and Google will be either terrifying or fascinating. This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task |

“What’s the worst that can happen?” I thought when I put my house on Airbnb. While I didn’t have a warm feeling about strangers sleeping in my bed, I was intrigued by the idea. Experience: my Airbnb guests threw a New Year party for 300 people | Life a

Peter Carruthers, Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, is an expert on the philosophy of mind who draws heavily on empirical psychology and cognitive neuroscience. There Is No Such Thing as Conscious Thought - Scientific American

Increasing one’s level of physical activity may be an effective way to boost one’s mood, according to a new study from a team including scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in collaboration with the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program. Increased Motor Activity Linked to Improved Mood - 2018 - News Releases - N

What we can learn from lab rats that don’t show empathy for other rats. Mr. Garrett is an illustrator and a writer. Opinion | The Kernel of Human (or Rodent) Kindness - The New York Times

On November 7, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell, fracturing two ribs. X-rays to treat the broken ribs revealed two nodules on her lungs. On Friday, Ginsburg, who is 85, underwent surgery to remove the nodules, both of which proved cancerous upon post-operative testing. Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s health and the case for Supreme Court term limits - V

Take a moment and think about the quietest room you’ve ever laid down in; the quietest, stillest place you’ve ever been. 10 Minutes Inside The Quietest Room On Earth Will Make You Trip Out

Quantum computers are still a dream, but the era of quantum communication is here. A new experiment out of Paris has demonstrated, for the first time, that quantum communication is superior to classical ways of transmitting information. Milestone Experiment Proves Quantum Communication Really Is Faster | Quanta

Perhaps more than anyone, research scientist Janelle Shane popularized AI humor. You may have seen her work. During Halloween this year, she partnered with the New York Times to generate costume names with a neural network. We tried teaching an AI to write Christmas movie plots. Hilarity ensued. Ev

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–What? How can you say that? Android has the best PWA experience available today, Max! –Android? or Chrome on Android? And… is it the best possible experience? Google is like a star with different planets orbiting it, such as the Chrome planet and the Android planet. Is there a cold war between Android and Chrome because of PWAs?

It all started with Sputnik. What seemed at the time like a major defeat in the Cold War, turned out to be the catalyst for one of the most important technologies of the 20th century, and maybe the 21st. It was October 4th, 1957. A brief history of GPS | PCWorld

Research published in a major medical journal concludes that a parachute is no more effective than an empty backpack at protecting you from harm if you have to jump from an aircraft. But before you leap to any rash conclusions, you had better hear the whole story. Is A Backpack As Good As A Parachute When Jumping Out Of A Plane? : Shots -

An experimental tower over 100 meters (328 feet) high in northern China — dubbed the world's biggest air purifier by its operators - has brought a noticeable improvement in air quality, according to the scientist leading the project, as authorities seek ways to tackle the nation's chronic smog pro China built a tower that acts like 'the world's biggest air purifier' - Bus

The Trace is an nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of gun violence through independent journalism. Your tax-deductible financial support helps expand the in-depth reporting we can dedicate to this vital issue. Donate and double your impact. The Gun Violence Map: Five Years of American Shootings