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Google’s AI to Use Retinal Scan to Predict Heart Disease and Hypertension
Google always brings tremendous innovations but with like everything they do I can’t help but always feel their intentions might be more than meets the eyes (no pun intended). via USA Today: I can look into your eyes and see straight to your heart. It may sound like a sappy sentiment from a Hallmark card. Essentially though, that’s what researchers … Continue reading
Trying to Solve for This Number Could Cause a ‘BLACK HOLE’ to Form in Your Brain
Kids, don’t try this at home! via Express UK: A NUMBER known as ‘Graham’s Number’ is so mind bogglingly large that if you were to store that information in your brain it could cause it to collapse on itself and create a mental black hole. Graham’s Number was first established by mathematician Ronald Graham in 1971 and is an upper … Continue reading
DNA Variants That Cause Poor Health May Also Make You ‘Stupid’
What makes some people smarter than others? A genetic analysis of families in Scotland, UK, hints that brainier people have fewer DNA mutations that impair intelligence and general health, rather than having more genetic variants that make them smarter. “This is one of the most exciting studies on the genetics of intelligence I’ve seen for a while,” says Steve Stewart-Williams … Continue reading
Mysterious Stone from Space Raises Questions
Scientists have been trying to explain the emergence of life for centuries. Did it form on Earth? Or did it originate in space and arrive on our planet via meteorites? A mysterious Hypatia stone that fell to Earth from space raises a lot of questions in this regard, scientist Georgy Belyanin reveals. The Hypatia stone that was found by Egyptian … Continue reading
Asteroids May be Crucial in the Search for the Chemical Origins of Life
Asteroids are often thought to be a threat to life, but could they be the key finding out how the Earth evolved into the thriving planet which we know today? Nicholas Hud, director of the Center for Chemical Evolution at the Georgia Institute of Technology, thinks so and has been studying space rocks in an effort to pinpoint the chemical … Continue reading
EVERYTHING You’ve Ever Done Online Will Be Found by This Computer & You Cannot Stop it
THE next generation of computers is striking fear into security agencies across the world as nations prepare for the biggest dump of information that the world has ever seen. This is not another whistleblower but the development of Quantum computing. The race is already under way on two fronts, the development of these super-computers on one hand and the development … Continue reading
Mysterious UFO Causes Confusion for Air Traffic Controllers; F-15s Scramble
Tyler Rogoway The Drive New evidence offers great detail of the bizarre event and provides unprecedented insight into how such a unique incident is dealt with in real time. Last November, The War Zone posted an exclusive story detailing a bizarre incident involving an unidentified aircraft that transited the skies of the Pacific Northwest in the early evening of October … Continue reading
Scientist Have Created a Magnetic ‘Wormhole’ That Connects Two Regions of Space
When you get to the end of this article, do remember to pay mind to the last paragraph and let the words really sink in, it’s a very interesting quote indeed! via Scicademy: Wormholes are fascinating (but theoretical) cosmological objects that can connect two distant regions of the universe. They would allow one to create “shortcuts” through space in order … Continue reading
Thought Communication Will Replace Human Speech by the Year 2050
This would certainly be fun and exciting but like with most other technologies there would be a great risk of misuse. via Express UK: HUMAN speech will become a thing of the past by the year 2050, by which time we will communicate by thought via a computer-generated collective consciousness, it has been claimed Marko Karjnovic unveiled his ideas at … Continue reading
Yellowstone Supervolcano Hit by 10 Earthquakes in 24 Hours
A SWARM of 10 earthquakes have struck Yellowstone National Park – the site of a supervolcano capable of an apocalyptic eruption. A raft of earthquakes measuring above magnitude-2.0 have been recorded at Yellowstone, in the US state of Wyoming, during the past 24 hours. The largest earthquake measured 2.9 on the Richter Scale and struck at a depth of 9km … Continue reading
