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 ...

Seeing is believing—precision atom qubits achieve major quantum computing milestone | Michelle Simmons

A scanning tunnelling microscope image showing the electron wave function of a qubit made from a phosphorus atom precisely positioned in silicon. Credit: UNSW March 7, 2018 (Phys.org) -- The unique A ...

Nuclear Calendar -- March 7, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation March 7, 2018 March 7 10:00-11:30 a.m., Daniel Salisbury, Project on Managing the Atom, "Countering WMD-related Illicit Trade: Insights f ...

What’s worse than fake news? The distortion of reality itself. | Aviv Ovadya

Aviv Ovadya -- The World Post Feb. 22, 2018 (Johan Viirok/Creative Commons) Aviv Ovadya is chief technologist at the Center for Social Media Responsibility at the University of Michigan and a Knight ...