science

Top Futurists Make Some Pretty Surprising Predictions About What The Next Decade Will Bring

Posted in Software on 12th May, 2015
by Alex Muller

The past decade has seen dramatic advances. What amazing things are we likely to see in the next 10 years? Here's the summary.

Lens turns smartphone into a basic microscope for only 3 cents

Posted in Science on 6th May, 2015
by Alex Muller

Researchers have created an optical lens that can be placed on an inexpensive smartphone to magnify images by a magnitude of 120 times.

Proposed US Legislation to Make Space Settlement a National Goal

Posted in Business on 4th May, 2015
by Alex Muller

Legislation that a congressman plans to introduce in the future would make space settlement a national goal and require NASA to take action to support it.

First results in from psychologys largest reproducibility test to date

Posted in Medicine on 3rd May, 2015
by Alex Muller

Results posted online on 24 April, which have not yet been peer-reviewed, suggest that key findings from only 39 of 100 published studies could be reproduced.

Video Gamers Have Better Connected Brains

Posted in Games on 28th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

Action video gamers have more gray matter and better connectivity in certain subregions of the brain.