DUBLIN, Ireland (PNN) - May 18, 2-16 - Light is a fundamental avenue of study in physics, and its properties are well established with steadfast rules and invariable constraints. Until recently, we thought we knew just about everything there was to know about it. But now physicists from Trinity College Dublin have added a twist to the existing canon by demonstrating a new form of light with a total angular momentum that has a half-integer spin. In other words, light that does not obey the rules.
Researchers discover new property of light with a twist
You can now sign up to take a driverless car for a spin around London
LONDON, England (PNN) - May 13, 2016 - Fancy driving a driverless car? You can now register for the Fascist United Kingdom’s first public trial of autonomous vehicles.
If you're in the FUK, you can register with the Gateway (Greenwich Automated Transport Environment) project and take a ride around London's Greenwich area in a totally automated self-driving electric shuttle. You'll then be invited to share your thoughts on the experience. You can also take part in workshops to discuss the future of automated transport.
CDC scientist admits data of vaccines and autism was trashed
Over 100 people gathered outside the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta are demanding transparency when it comes to vaccines. Is there anything to what these people are saying? How about the facts that no one else will share? Ben Swann reports.
University of Florida brain-drone race
The University of Florida has held the world's first brain-drone race. UF researchers hope this competition will inspire others to continue to build upon brain computer interface technology that could be used in our everyday lives.
Doctor Frankenstein is alive and well and working in the FPSA
Dead could be brought back to life in groundbreaking project.
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (PNN) - May 3, 2016 - A groundbreaking trial to see if it is possible to regenerate the brains of dead people has won approval from health watchdogs.
A biotech company in the Fascist Police States of Amerika has been granted ethical permission to recruit 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead from a traumatic brain injury, to test whether parts of their central nervous systems can be brought back to life.
Someone already born will live to 1,000
Immortality is possible.
LONDON, England (PNN) - May 1, 2016 - Dr. Aubrey de Grey believes people who have already been born could live for ten centuries because of ongoing research being done into "repairing the effects of aging".
University of Florida holds first brain-powered drone race
MIAMI, Florida (PNN) - April 23, 2016 - An announcer shouts “Three, two, one, go!” and several drones take off, whizzing around a Florida gymnasium and racing towards the finish line. The sport of drone racing has been taking off in recent years, with new leagues and competitions popping up around the world, but this race is different: the drones are being directed by users’ minds
A cloaking device for planets
NSF Graduate Fellow Alex Teachey of the Cool Worlds Lab explains a new paper that devises a method to cloak entire planets from extraterrestrial civilizations!
WhatsApp just switched on encryption for a billion people
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Kalifornia (PNN) - April 5, 2016 - For most of the past six weeks, the biggest story out of Silicon Valley was Apple’s battle with the Amerikan Gestapo Federal Bureau of Investigation division over a federal order to unlock the iPhone of a mass shooter. The company’s refusal touched off a searing debate over privacy and security in the digital age. But this morning, at a small office in Mountain View, Kalifornia, three guys made the scope of that enormous debate look small.
Truly zero-emissions airplane fueled by nothing but algae and sunlight
PARIS, France (PNN) - March 29, 2016 - Engineers have said that the day of carbon-free unlimited energy is coming, and a French company just took a step toward that goal.
The company says it plans to fly a "zero-emission" plane from Paris to New York City, powered by nothing more than sunlight and some algae. Founder and pilot Raphael Dinelli will travel for more than 60 hours in June in an ultra-light electric aircraft that is biofuel- and sunlight-powered.