Technology

Envision cells that can move through your brain, searching down cancer and destroying it before they themselves vanish without a trace. Researchers have just accomplished that in mice, producing personalized tumor-homing cells from adult skin cells that can shrink brain tumors to 2% to 5% of their original size. the …

The flexibility of wombats’ intestinal tracts helps to form their distinct poops WOMBAT SCAT Wombats are stout marsupials, native to Australia. They utilize their cubelike droppings to mark their area. Of all the poops on the planet, just wombats ‘are shaped like cubes. The varied flexibility of the wombat’s intestines …

The collapse in bee populations can be reversed if nations adopt a brand-new farmer-friendly strategy, the designer of a new masterplan for pollinators will tell the UN biodiversity conference today. Stefanie Christmann of the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas will provide the results of a new study …

The Inca system of composing in khipus, or knotted cords© The Trustees of the British Museum © The Trustees of the British Museum By Daniel Cossins THE Incas left no doubt that theirs was a sophisticated, technically savvy civilisation. At its height in the 15th century, it was the largest …

We’re rapidly approaching the tenth anniversary of the Galaxy S line of phones, and Samsung is planning to go big. Like, physically large. According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, Samsung has four versions of the Galaxy S10 in the works including one called “Beyond X” that …

Anyone who grew up near Los Angeles prior to auto emissions regulations knows what bad air looks like. The same is true for many who have grown up in countries that have perennial air quality issues. But for most of us in the US, our air quality is pretty good, …

Virtual reality was supposed to be the next big thing, but even with all the billions of dollars invested in companies like Oculus and Vive, many consumers just aren’t interested. Part of the problem is that VR still leaves you tethered to a computer or at least in a limited …

The European Union has been going hard on technology giants like Google in recent years, but the search giant is expressing serious concerns about the EU’s new copyright directives. According to a Google executive, the company is considering shutting down its Google News portal in Europe if the latest copyright …

  When Microsoft committed to developing Windows as a service, it declared that users could look forward to an unending stream of feature improvements and updates over time as the OS evolved. The company has kept that promise for most of the past three years — each new major Windows …

Integrating fixes for Spectre and Meltdown has been a long, slow process throughout 2018. We’ve seen new vulnerabilities popping up on a fairly regular cadence, with Intel and other vendors rolling out solutions as quickly as they can be developed. To date, most of these fixes haven’t had a significant …