Science & Enviroment

10 Weird Fun Activities From the Past That Look Totally Absurd Today
20:13 2018-02-20

If you think that the generations living before computers were invented had a boring life, you couldn’t be more wrong. Both aristocrats and peasants were always ready to have fun and their ways of entertainment were not always as humane and safe as ours. However, even today we can find people who don’t behave reasonably …

Scientists create new form of light that might just see quantum computing become a reality
09:32 2018-02-20

Scientists have found a way to coax photons, a.k.a particles of light, to “merge” or join with each other. Atoms frequently do so when they make a chemical compound or molecule. Consider: If you shine the beams of light from 2 flashlights across each other, they don’t do anything special. They don’t interact, in other …

Facebook will mail postcards to verify ads, prevent meddling
23:43 2018-02-19

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook will soon rely on centuries-old technology to try to prevent foreign meddling in U.S. elections: the post office. Baffled in 2016 by Russian agents who bought ads to sway the U.S. presidential campaign, Facebook’s global politics and government outreach director, Katie Harbath, told a meeting of the National Association of …

Sony drops PlayStation VR prices as low as $200
20:33 2018-02-19

That’s including a game and camera, too. Sony thinks its holiday PlayStation VR discounts were a success, so it’s bringing them back now that it wants to clear some end-of-winter stock. The company is running a new promo that drops PSVR prices by $100 across the board between February 18th and March 3rd. The sweetest …

Genes remain active after death
21:09 2018-02-18

Cells continue to function even after an individual dies. That’s according to a scientific study published in Nature Communications. Analysing post-mortem samples, an international team of scientists showed that some genes became more active after death. As well as providing an important dataset for other scientists, they also hope that this can be developed into …