New materials, heated under high magnetic fields, could produce record levels of energy, model shows | Jennifer Chu

Schematic depiction of the E × B drift of carriers in a strong magnetic field. Electrons (labeled e−) and holes (labeled h+) drift in the same direction under the influence of crossed electric and ma ...

Google pushes artificial intelligence for upgraded news app | AFP

May 20, 2018 (AFP) -- For its updated news application, Google is doubling down on the use of artificial intelligence as part of an effort to weed our disinformation and help users get viewpoints bey ...

Nuclear Calendar -- May 1, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- May 1, 2018 Friends Committee On National Legislation April 23-May 4 2nd Preparatory Committee Session for 2020 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, Geneva, Switzerland. Re ...

Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence DNA from all complex life on Earth | Harris A. Lewin

The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence all eukaryotic species. This superkingdom of life includes all organisms except bacteria and archaea. Credit: Mirhee Lee. April 23, 2018 (Phys.org) -- An ...

New smartphone reader for quicker infection testing | Tina Hilding

Dr. "Bones" from the Star Trek TV show uses a "tricorder" to diagnose a medical condition. April 24, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Washington State University researchers have developed a low-cost, portable lab ...

Nuclear Calendar -- April 17, 2018 -- FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation April 17, 2018 April 17 8:30 a.m.-3:15 p.m, "China and North Korea: Past, Present, and Future," with multiple speakers, United States Ins ...

The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet | Ellen Brown

April 4, 2018 (Web of Debt) -- Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitor ...

The book I should’ve written 15 years ago (but it’s WAY too late now) | Mickey Z.

CC0 Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 22, 2018 It hit me while recently re-reading Andrea Dworkin’s 2002 memoir, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant. I first discovered it in fa ...

Nuclear Calendar -- March 21, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation March 21, 2018 March 21 9:00-10:00 a.m., Senator Robert Menendez (NJ), "Congressional Leadership in Foreign Policy," Center for Strategic ...

How Congress Censored the Internet | Elliot Harmon

In Passing SESTA/FOSTA, Lawmakers Failed to Separate Their Good Intentions from Bad Law Elliot Harmon -- Electronic Frontier Foundation March 21, 2018 Today was a dark day for the Internet. The U.S. ...

Kepler spacecraft nearing the end as fuel runs low | Charlie Sobeck

Credit: NASA March 14, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Trailing Earth's orbit at 94 million miles away, the Kepler space telescope has survived many potential knock-outs during its nine years in flight, from mech ...