Tech
Smart Wig Could Compete with Google Glass
A new patent for this wearable technology could aid someone who is blind, deaf or needs to be guided through an alien environment
Stories by The Conversation
Mind
Nudity Found to Offer New Social Benefits
Study subjects who focus on a person’s body rather than his or her mind rank that person as more experienced and more sensitive to emotion and pain
Mind
Cheaters Use Cognitive Tricks to Rationalize Infidelity
Subjects experience discomfort about unfaithful thoughts and behaviors but downplay it and minimize its relevance to their sense of self
Sustainability
How Climate Change and Plate Tectonics Shaped Human Evolution
A new study links the emergence of new hominin species, expanding brain capacity and early human migration with the appearance of deep freshwater lakes
Sustainability
Global Warming Finally Reaches the Last Arctic Region
The Hudson Bay Lowlands in northeastern Canada were one of the last holdouts against the trend of global warming in the Arctic, but has in a very short period succumbed
Health
New Insight into Mosquito Sex Could Aid in Conquering Malaria
A male hormone has been shown to alter female mosquitoes' ability to reproduce. Blocking it or its activity could offer a new way to limit mosquito populations and thus the spread of malaria...
Health
Life on Earth Was Not a Fluke
Figuring out how biomolecular self-organization happens may hold the key to understanding life on Earth formed and perhaps how it might form on other planets
Health
Antibody Treatment Found to Halt Deadly Ebola Virus in Primates
A combination treatment of antibodies and virus-fighting proteins prevented death from the Ebola-Zaire strain in some primates, even when administered three days after infection
The Sciences
Could the Higgs Nobel Be the End of Particle Physics?
Many physicists had hoped that the Large Hadron Collider would also yield a sign of new directions for physics to take, not just a new particle, but that has yet to occur
Sustainability
Construction Begins on New Carbon-Capture Plant
The Texas plant claims that it will be the world's first commercial carbon dioxide mineralization plant, transforming the greenhouse gas CO2 into baking soda
Tech
iPhone Hack Shows Security Isn't At Our Fingertips Just Yet
A group in Germany claims to have cracked the fingerprint sensor unveiled as part of the iPhone 5S, pointing to the limitations of single-factor authentication
Tech
Scoff Now, But You're Probably Getting a Smartwatch
Smartwatches are too small to be useful for serious web browsing, and phone calls will be made using "hands-free" equipment, but their visibility will make them desirable fashion accessories...
The Sciences
We've Been Looking at Ant Intelligence the Wrong Way
Unlike humans, ants don't build a unified map of the world. Instead specialized systems, including the ability to learn from recent experience, create complex navigational behavior
Mind
Leaders Are Born, Not Made, Fish Study Finds
An experiment to train bold stickleback fish to be followers and shy fish to be leaders produces unexpected results
The Sciences
How Small Is Too Small to Qualify as a Discrete Species?
Applying mathematical models to real data suggests that for organisms smaller than one millimeter the concept of a species as a cohesive unit breaks down
Biology
Megafauna Extinction Affects Ecosystems 12,000 Years Later
A researcher describes how his mathematical model based on heat diffusion reveals the critical role played by large animals in dispersing nutrients
Evolution
Produce Woolly Mammoth Stem Cells, Says Creator of Dolly the Sheep
Sir Ian Wilmut proposes an alternative method as a possible means of creating a mammoth--or a hybrid. Such research could lead to major biological discoveries and advances
