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Cellphone radiation poses no real harm to humans, new research says - The Verge Photo by Cathy Keifer/Shutterstock Male rats showed a small increase in a kind of heart tumor after exposure to massive amounts of cellphone radiation, a new… February 3, 2018 at 11:59AM http://ift.tt/2nEduTV

A game about penises made Steam live streaming a reality You won't find Genital Jousting on Twitch, largely because the game is populated by a variety of brightly colored penises with X-marked anuses between their… February 2, 2018 at 11:11AM http://ift.tt/2DVFy06

Tesla will sell solar panels and Powerwalls at Home Depot Tesla Just how much is the average consumer interested in solar power? Tesla is about to find out, as it is bringing photovoltaic panels and Powerwall batteries… February 2, 2018 at 11:07AM http://ift.tt/2EvuTGl

UNICEF recruits gamers to mine cryptocurrency for Syrian kids UNICEF UNICEF has launched a new fund-raising project in the same vein as SETI@Home and Einstein@home , but with a cryptocurrency spin. In an effort to raise… February 2, 2018 at 11:02AM http://ift.tt/2GEYSfS

Final Stargate Origins Trailer Shows That 'Eureka, the Stargate Actually Works!' Still: Stargate Command via YouTube Oh, you didn’t think there was going to be a Stargate series without an actual Stargate, did you? The full-length trailer is… February 2, 2018 at 09:35AM http://ift.tt/2BOz0KC

Astrophysicists Have Built The Most Detailed Simulation of The Universe Ever Created Saying our Universe is a big place is a bit of an understatement. And with recent advances in our understanding of the effects of dark matter and black holes on… February 2, 2018 at 09:26AM http://ift.tt/2BOqpaN

A new type of solar cell is coming to market SOMETIMES it takes a while for the importance of a scientific discovery to become clear. When the first perovskite, a compound of calcium, titanium and oxygen,… February 1, 2018 at 07:31PM http://ift.tt/2BOx5pu

It Appears Yet Another Trump Staffer Is Ready to Sing for Mueller He’s listening. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images When we learned at the end of October that two former Trump campaign officials, Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, had… February 1, 2018 at 07:28PM http://ift.tt/2DRFNW1

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Google is now using machine learning to predict flight delays - The Verge Photo credit should read JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images Google has updated its Flights app with a pair of new features that should help weary (and wary) travelers… January 31, 2018 at 04:17PM http://ift.tt/2DRyPQz

3 Bad Habits You Need to Break to Improve Your Photography Teaching our photography workshops over the years, my wife and I have come to recognize there are three things many people do habitually which do not help the… January 31, 2018 at 08:39AM http://ift.tt/2DZTVQa

Last Night Proved We Need More Scientists In Public Office - Scientific American Blog Network Watching the State of the Union last night made me think of my favorite State of the Union moment. In 2015, President Obama took the stage and roasted climate… January 31, 2018 at 08:37AM http://ift.tt/2GzMspg

What Is Seitan? - Scientific American Credit: Amy Stephenson Flickr ( CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Laurel recently requested an episode on seitan: What the heck is it, how does it stack up nutritionally, and how… January 31, 2018 at 08:34AM http://ift.tt/2GAZyTy

Every phone should copy the iPhone X’s gestures - The Verge Photo by James Bareham / The Verge The best part of the iPhone X is not its display, it’s not its camera, and it’s not its price. (Okay, fine, the price is the… January 31, 2018 at 08:33AM http://ift.tt/2GwYRut

Trump Administration Idea for Nationalized 5G Falls Flat - Scientific American Credit: Credit: chombosan Getty Images Well, that didn’t take long. Less than a day after news broke that Trump-administration National Security Council (NSC)… January 30, 2018 at 08:43AM http://ift.tt/2FuzIim

Trump's Tax Bill a "Poke in the Eye" to America's Solar Future - Scientific American The Trump administration’s ambivalence— some might say hostility —toward science and research took a turn for the worse when the president signed a… January 30, 2018 at 08:42AM http://ift.tt/2DWUw5k

Racial Differences in Addiction and Other Disorders Aren't Mostly Genetic - Scientific American Blog Network Does anyone out there believe that the current, overwhelmingly white opioid epidemic is due to racial genetic differences? Earlier this month during a… January 30, 2018 at 08:42AM http://ift.tt/2GvSEiq

The Super Blue Blood Moon is coming — but there won’t be blood, and it won’t be blue - The Verge Blood Moon. On Wednesday morning, a very wordy lunar event will take over the night sky: the “Super Blue Blood Moon.” Yes, really . So what do all those… January 29, 2018 at 02:52PM http://ift.tt/2GsUZdZ

Amazon’s mini rainforest work space spheres are opening in Seattle - The Verge After seven years of planning and construction, Amazon’s mini rainforest spheres are finally opening in Seattle. “The Spheres,” as they’re known, hold 40,000… January 29, 2018 at 01:09PM http://ift.tt/2DSoNCj

Apple could be about to smash its own profitability record | Cult of Mac Apple will report its quarterly earnings this Thursday and, according to analysts, it could be about to beat its own record for most profitable quarter in… January 29, 2018 at 08:53AM http://ift.tt/2BAudfS