The 1950s promised we'd all have our own Jetsons-style house robots by the beginning of the 21st century. We might not be there yet — Roombas don't count — but robots are playing an increasingly important role in human society at large. The Atlantic has compiled a photo essay with some of...
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For new parents, there's no avoiding the adage that "breast is best." Major health agencies, including the World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatricians, have long concurred that breast milk is the ideal source of nutrition for infants — especially in the first six months...
The head of a United Nations committee on climate change said this week that global warming is "absolutely" linked to a recent spate of wildfires and heat waves, while calling upon international leaders to address the matter with more urgency. Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), made the comments in a recent...
Food substitute Soylent has secured $1.5 million in investment. The nutrient-dense semi-goo has been backed by investors including Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, who previously invested $80 million in Twitter and helped sell Skype to Microsoft for $8.5 billion.
Soylent is made from rice protein, olive oil, starch, and a host of vitamins and nutrients theoretically balanced to provide a healthy human diet. The concept was dreamt up by entrepreneur Rob Rhinehart while he was working on a new wireless networking system for the developing world and found himself considering food efficiency. The food substitute has already secured more than a million dollars through an online crowd-funding campaign.
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Henry Gustave Molaison was a man who couldn't make memories. Better known to neuroscientists as "HM", the late Molaison suffered from seizures as a young man and struggled to lead a normal life, but things took a dramatic shift after he received a lobotomy in August 1953. Doctors removed large...
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new golden rule: every mammal takes about 21 seconds to urinate. Patricia Yang and her co-authors dubbed it the "Law of Orientation" in a paper published this week, and they say...
New Yorkers will proudly tell you that the city has some of the finest tap water that you can find. But for nearly a century, all of Manhattan has been served by a single water tunnel that hasn’t been shut down for maintenance since it first opened in 1917. That’s no...
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