3D printing at FabLab, a Lucerne-based innovation hub (Gaetan bally / KEYSTONE) Switzerland has been judged as the most competitive economy on the planet for the eighth year in a row by World Economic Forum (WEF) researchers. However, the alpine country might find its pole position tested if it…

Take a good look at the piece of cloth pictured at the top of this story. That was made 6,000 years ago by people living on the coast of Peru. Now check out those faint blue lines running through it. Yes, they're washed out, but you can still see them. Advertisement > This square of striped cotton,…

Enlarge / Humans living in Argentina 14,000 years ago were hunting giant armadillos. This one looks especially grumpy. Heinrich Harder For more than a decade, evidence has been piling up that humans colonized the Americas thousands of years before the Clovis people. The Clovis, who are the early…

Private Lunar Mission On September 17, 2018, SpaceX announced fashion innovator and globally recognized art curator Yusaku Maezawa will be the company’s first private passenger to fly around the Moon in 2023. To date, only 24 people have visited the Moon, with the last of them flying in 1972. This…

Amanda Northrop Vox's home for compelling, provocative narrative essays. Nobody ever tells you about the sleep deprivation. At around 4:30 am, while the rest of the world is still asleep, I wake up and get moving under cover of darkness. Quiet spots with some degree of tree cover, or the occasional…

Hell yeah. We need to learn a lesson about needless consumerism from this auto repair shop in Gdansk, Poland. Because it still uses a Commodore 64 to run its operations. Yes, the same Commodore 64 released 34 years ago that clocked in at 1 MHz and had 64 kilobytes of RAM. It came out in 1982, was…

A tenth of children have a "monkey-like" immune system that stops them developing Aids, a study suggests. The study, in Science Translational Medicine , found the children's immune systems were "keeping calm", which prevented them being wiped out. An untreated HIV infection will kill 60% of children…

In November 2012 voters in the states of Colorado and Washingtonapproved ballot initiatives that legalized marijuana forrecreational use. Two years later, Alaska and Oregon followed suit.As many as 11 other states may consider similar measures inNovember 2016, through either ballot initiative or…

As your thoughts run uncontrollably, your heartbeat starts to race and your breathing becomes heavy. Uneasiness is followed by fear, and then without warning, panic begins to set in. Suddenly you feel overwhelmed and overstimulated. If you periodically experience these symptoms, know that you’re in…

Visitors to a world-famous fossil bed in Canada have discovered a handful of strange specimens that may likely turn out to be up to three new species of large ancient millipedes. The find was made by chance last year in the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, which stretch several miles along the Bay of Fundy.…

DENVER (AP) — Police officers across the country misuse confidential law enforcement databases to get information on romantic partners, business associates, neighbors, journalists and others for reasons that have nothing to do with daily police work, an Associated Press investigation has found.…

Yale University researchers say their new study shows how deeply ingrained our racial biases are. Why are black preschoolers in America more than three times as likely to be suspended than their white classmates? Perhaps because teachers are more likely to expect young black children — especially…

More bad news for climate change and agriculture: A new study has found that the rate of climate change is likely to outpace the ability for key staple crops, like rice, corn, or wheat, to adapt. Together, these crops account for almost half of the world’s calories , raising concerns that climate…

A United Nations working group of experts has said recent killings of Black people by police officers are reminiscent of 19th and 20th century lynchings, months after a visit to the United States, in which they called for the distribution of reparations. “Contemporary police killings and the trauma…

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Written by Emiko Jozuka, CNN When archeologist Hiroyuki Miyagi heard that a bunch of ancient Roman and Ottoman coins had been unearthed from the ruins of an old castle in Okinawa, he initially thought it was a hoax. "I couldn't believe they'd found coins from the Roman empire in Kasturen castle,"…

The lid of Camp Century’s unsealed nuclear fuel vessel, pictured in 1962.Photograph: W Robert Moore/National Geographic/Getty Images A top-secret US military project from the cold war and the toxic waste it conceals, thought to have been buried forever beneath the Greenland icecap, are likely to be…

Following a raid that killed 18 Indian soldiers at an army base in Kashmir, some commentators bayed for a thundering retaliatory strike against neighbor and rival Pakistan. A “jaw for a tooth,” said one member of the governing Bharatiya Janata Party. “Wipe off Pakistan from the world’s map” with a…

Image: Flickr / SpaceX SpaceX plans to build a “self-sustaining city” on Mars, according to its founder Elon Musk. But, while we now know a lot more about how SpaceX plans to get to Mars, details about how people will actually survive up there remain sketchy. Musk dropped the news on Tuesday during…

Only a few slender strings were attached: two public readings and a commitment to spend the majority of the six months in the country. Beyond that, I would be left to my own devices. An apartment would be provided, and a stipend. I didn’t think about it for very long. I wrote back: yes. The…

I f you summon an Uber in 10 years’ time, you will probably get a car that drives itself . But then again, you may not be travelling in a car at all. The taxi-hailing app is working on technology that would allow airborne passenger drones to fly its users short distances around cities, it has…

Over the last year, the clearest trend in the drone industry has been a move toward units that are smaller and more portable. Yuneec introduced a drone with foldable arms, and last week GoPro did the same. During its presentation for the new Karma drone, GoPro repeatedly emphasized how easy the unit…

On Phone Numbers and Identity Philip Martin Sep 26, 2016 Coinbase sees a lot of motivated attackers, it’s one of the things that makes working in security at Coinbase so interesting. I want to deep dive into one recent attack for a few reasons: 1) when we share we all get stronger; 2) It was a…

Plants warn each other and use epigenetic changes to remember these warnings. In Lewis Caroll’s Through the Looking Glass , Alice wanders into a garden with flowers that can talk — the “garden of Live Flowers”. Of course, all plants are alive, but here the flowers are called “live” because they can…

The Technology Behind A Low Latency Cloud Gaming Service Parsec Sep 28, 2016 Tl;dr: We just released an AWS AMI for streaming PC games at extremely low latency and 60 FPS from Amazon. Check it out here . Rocket League on my Macbook Pro The Inspiration Last July, I read a highly upvoted article on…

The hosting provider OVH continues to face massive DDoS attacks launched by a botnet composed at least of 150000 IoT devices. Last week, the hosting provider OVH faced 1Tbps DDoS attack, likely the largest one ever seen. The OVH founder and CTO Octave Klaba reported the 1Tbps DDoS attack on Twitter…

Boycott Launched After Nestlé Outbids Drought-Stricken Town to Buy Well for Bottled Water Lorraine Chow Sep. 26, 2016 12:20PM EST Nestlé's grab of a Canadian community's water supply has sparked international outrage and calls to boycott the company and bottled water . More than 150,000 Facebook…

The joy of the international community and the mainstream press was overwhelming when, on August 24, after fifty-one years (or seventy, depending on the definition ) of armed conflict, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced a final peace agreement .…

Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi looks on during an appearance at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, on Aug. 22, at the start of his trial on charges of involvement in the destruction of historic mausoleums in the Malian desert city of Timbuktu. Mahdi pleaded guilty. Patrick…

University of Canterbury composer Jason Long and Prof Jack Copeland, who restored the 65-year-old recording.Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images Researchers in New Zealand say they have restored the first recording of computer-generated music, created in 1951 on a gigantic contraption built by the…

Javier Carranza, right, has harvested flowers and organic farm produce at McGrath’s for 19 years.Photograph: Giovanni Moujaes N inety minutes from downtown Los Angeles, flowers of all shapes and sizes grow next to the historic US highway 101. Year round the patches of mixed colors fill a small…

The world's first baby has been born using a new "three person" fertility technique, New Scientist reveals. The five-month-old boy has the usual DNA from his mum and dad, plus a tiny bit of genetic code from a donor. US doctors took the unprecedented step to ensure the baby boy would be free of a…

Washington (AFP) - 02/26/2019 - 16:04 Pompeo: 'No one should be fooled' by Cuba constitution vote Washington (AFP) - 02/26/2019 - 15:47 Fed's Powell: US inflation to fall further below 2% target Hanoi (AFP) - 02/26/2019 - 15:09 Trump lands in Hanoi for North Korea nuclear summit London (AFP) -…

Story highlights She was at the university doing press interviews She was escorted off before she could try to make her way to the debate stage Washington (CNN) Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein was escorted off the Hofstra University campus Monday after her prearranged media interviews…

Yvon Chouinard showing Crow children how to fish in Montana. He has frequently disappeared for months, sometimes for half the year, to fish, climb, kayak, surf, ski—and preserve—the planet’s untamed precincts. Photograph by John Francis Peters for The New Yorker When Yvon Chouinard, the climber and…

Human vs. Pathogen: The Art of Battling Infectious Disease John Aitchison Posted on Sep 6th, 2016 M ankind vs. Pathogen. This idea—the ages-old, microscopic battle between parasites, bacteria, viruses and human immune systems—is the essence of our science. Winning this battle, advancing the…

This composite image shows suspected plumes of water vapor erupting at the 7 o’clock position off the limb of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Image of Europa, superimposed on the Hubble data NASA/ESA/W. Sparks (STScI)/USGS Astrogeology Science Center Hints about "surprising activity" on Europa have been…

Traditional Aztec dancers chant during a rally Sept. 13 in San Diego, in support of protesters at Standing Rock, N.D., who are fighting construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. (Sandy Huffaker/AFP/Getty Images) The Obama administration has settled lawsuits with 17 Native American tribes that…

By the time today’s children are grown adults, there may be no more wild elephants on the African continent. With only 400,000 elephants left there, and 30,000 to 40,000 lost to poachers every year, the population’s prognosis is dire, according to the newest African Elephant Status Report . Poaching…