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GIF Google, a company that spends billions of dollars on research and development, still hasn’t found a good reason for everyone to own a pair of smart glasses. But an international team of researchers is rethinking how upgraded glasses could be useful—by turning the wearer’s nose into a remote control for other devices. Computer scientists…

A (very) conceptual illustration of two DNA robots collectively performing a cargo-sorting task on a DNA “origami” surface. (Image: Demin Liu) In the classic 1966 American science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, a submarine crew was miniaturized and injected into a body to fix a blood clot in the brain. That’s obviously not how future medical…

GIF If you don’t have the budget for a $500 Oculus Rift headset and a thousand dollar VR-ready gaming PC, here’s a far cheaper solution. A die-hard Commodore 64 fan created a pair of virtual reality goggles for the classic 8-bit computer that can be easily found for just a few bucks at thrift shops…

Image: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo Now that Apple has officially announced its new iPhone 8 and iPhone X, it’s Google’s turn to try to wow the world with what it thinks is the future of smartphones. And even though last year’s Pixel was a success in many ways, there are still a number of improvements I’d like…

Image: NASA/Goddard/UMBC/MIT/E. Mazarico When you think about what makes a planet special, maybe you think about its size, its composition, how far it is from the Sun, and maybe how large its collection of apples is. You are probably not thinking about its density. But maybe you should be. Scientists previously assumed, well, Mars is…

Image: Flickr As fun as it is to find out where your great-great-great grandparents came from, the real promise of genetic testing is in the realm of disease. By screening for the genetic markers associated with hereditary disease, people can make proactive, potentially even life-saving decisions about their health. That is, as long as the…

Photo: Getty Three former Google employees have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company for allegedly discriminating against women. The complaint claims that Google systematically pays women less than men performing similar jobs, promotes men more often than similarly qualified women, and keeps women in lower-paying and lower-level positions. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday…

In this close-up image, you can see the use of a dot as a placeholder in the bottom line. This dot evolved into the use of zero as a number in its own right. (Image: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) The number zero is something we all take for granted, yet its conceptual origin has…

Image: USFWS Last month, a pen in Washington State holding hundreds of thousands of fish broke, sending swarms of silver Atlantic salmon swimming to the south and north. As you’re no doubt aware, Washington State is not on the Atlantic. Now, these invasive fish have been reported as far as 150 miles away in Canada.…

STRASBOURG – A trade delegation from the European Parliament to Myanmar postponed due to the violence against the muslim Rohingya in the country. “It would be completely the wrong signal to now about trade talk”, says D66, Member of the european parliament Marietje Schaake. That too is Hans van Baalen (VVD), that next week the…