When headlines read that an industry was turned on it’s head or disrupted, if you will, it gets not only the public and the media fired up, but also re-energizes the industry in question. It’s not a new concept — after all, those in the renaissance of science and technology would have been hard pressed …
Next time you feel bad about dipping your hand into a bag of potato chips, remember that you’re not alone. In fact, a new study shows that about half of what Americans consume can be categorized as “junk food.” In the study, which was published in BMJ Open, “junk food” was defined as ultra-processed food (think added …
So, all over the internet people are talking about the Apple versus FBI security issues. It is all over YouTube, between every two cat videos there is a video about Apple vs. FBI now! But what’s the big deal? For those of you who were not following this for the last few weeks. The FBI …
Editor’s note: This post has been updated and broken links removed. Please see our policy on broken hyperlinks for more. If you can die of a broken heart, you should be able to die of enormous joy, right? It might not make much sense, but new research shows that your heart and overall health may be at …
Once in a while, you might ponder what’s really up there in the night sky. Now, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Solar System Research and McMaster University believe that if there is extraterrestrial life, it’s had a good chance to discover our planet. When a planet passes in front of a star, it can …
Nintendo’s upcoming mystery gaming system codenamed NX has been the talk of the internet cloud computing circles in the last couple of months. Nintendo themselves did not reveal any information regarding this system, however, speculations around patents which Nintendo filed reveal quite a lot about the system. This figure in particular was quite the flare: …
Ask : The counterintuitive online formula to discover exactly what your customers want to buy…create a mass of raving fans…and take any business to the next level by Ryan Levesque My rating: 3 of 5 stars Ask, as it should go without saying, is a marketing book. Not only is about marketing, but it’s also …
The hypothesis that our immune system plays a role in detecting and killing transformed (cancerous) cells was first proposed over 50 years ago, remaining little more than a theory until the early 2000’s. In the past decade this theory has not only gained traction as being a critical function of the immune system, but has …
Although the long-extinct dodo bird may be at the center of many jokes, new research suggests that maybe we should all lay off a bit. A study published in the Zoological Journal of Linnean Society has discovered that the size of the dodo’s brain in relationship to its body is on par with its closest relative — the …
You’ve likely heard plenty about the sea levels rising over the course of your lifetime, but now, there are even more facts to back it up. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America has found that there is a 95 percent probability that the …