Educadora vitalicia de Salisbury, Carolina del Norte publica una novela de suspenso
A Well-researched Story that Both Entertains and Weaves Enduring Themes of Migration, Humanity, and Border Security…
Trump administration plans immigrant flights to Libya as its deportation agenda grows
The Trump administration is increasingly looking to nations with awful human rights records, such as Libya and Rwanda, to take immigrants being booted from the U.S…
99.999 per cent of the deep seabed remains unexplored by humans
Deep-sea submersibles have been diving for decades, but records show that we have still only explored a tiny area of the deep seabed, which makes up the majority of Earth’s topography…
What are microplastics doing to your brain? We’re starting to find out
The average human brain contains around 7 grams of plastic, but it’s unclear how this affects us. Now animal studies are revealing links to poor cognition and weird behaviour…
Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans
At an event in Dortmund, Germany today, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which the company is calling “its first robotic system with a genuine sense of touch—designed to transform how robots interact with the physical world.” In the short to medium term, the physical world that Amazon is most concerned with is…
Why Germs Love Our Collective Amnesia
Author Thomas Levenson on writing his new book So Very Small about humanity’s struggle to accept germs’ threats The post Why Germs Love Our Collective Amnesia appeared first on Nautilus…
IVF Treatment Faces Threats from ‘Fetal Personhood’ Laws That Would Grant Fetuses Legal Rights
In the new book Personhood, historian and law professor Mary Ziegler explores how the push to grant embryos and fetuses full legal rights is reshaping U.S. reproductive health care, research and policy…
Exclusive: Eyeo exits stealth to give cameras human-like colour vision
Dutch startup Eyeo has emerged from stealth with €15mn in funding to advance a breakthrough photonics technology for cameras that could radically disrupt the way we take images. Eyeo spun out last year from Belgium’s Imec, one of the world’s leading nanoelectronics centres. The startup’s waveguide colour-splitting technology — an optical technique that uses tiny…
Trump’s latest deportation scheme is almost certainly illegal
President Donald Trump is looking to additional faraway countries to deport immigrants — another escalation of his immigration crackdown. He has already sent immigrants to an El Salvador megaprison that is notorious for human rights abuses. Those deported include Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the government admits it wrongfully sent to El Salvador and has so…