Rubber-metal composite material stiffens up in response to stress

https://newatlas.com/rubber-material-metal-pressure/53453/

How ketamine relieves depression by suppressing the brain's "anti-reward" center

https://newatlas.com/ketamine-depression-brain-mechanism/53451/

MIT's thermal resonator generates electricity from the air's daily temperature cycle

https://newatlas.com/mit-thermal-resonator-temperature-changes-electricity/53456/

Mercedes' 1,000+ hp Project One hypercar inspires 3,100-hp powerboat

https://newatlas.com/cigarette-mercedes-one-powerboat/53448/

WHY SCIENTIFIC PEER REVIEW IS A SHAM

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2018/02/19/scientific-peer-review-sham/

Poor fitness linked to weaker brain fiber, higher dementia risk

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-02-poor-linked-weaker-brain-fiber.html

Hubble's Window into the Cosmic Past

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2018/hubbles-window-into-the-cosmic-past/

What do you see when you put miniature glasses on praying mantises? A new method for robot vision

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-praying-mantis-vision-20180209-story.html

Boston Dynamics video of door-opening robot dog grabs attention

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/gone-viral/os-boston-dynamics-robot-opens-door-20180214-story.html

Wikipedia Earns Censor of the Year Tag for Botching Evolution, Intelligent Design

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/david-klinghoffer/wikipedia-earns-censor-year-tag-botching-evolution-intelligent-design

How Will Earth Change If All the Ice Melts? (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIxRVfCpA64

This photo doesn’t look like much but it’s quite impressive

https://nypost.com/2018/02/12/this-photo-doesnt-look-like-much-but-its-quite-impressive/

India fines Google $21,000,000 for „indulging in practices of search bias“

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/02/india-fines-google-21-million-for-indulging-in-practices-of-search-bias

Nobody Has Figured Out How to Optimize for Deep Learning - Chris Thomas, McKinsey & Co

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nobody-has-figured-out-how-optimize-deep-learning-chris-towson/

Hundreds of Scientists Tell the World That the GMO and Cancer Link is Real

http://trueorganicandfree.com/hundreds-scientists-tell-world-gmo-and-cancer-link-real/

Pentagon space budget shaped by threats from Russia, China

http://spacenews.com/pentagon-space-budget-shaped-by-threats-from-russia-china/

Energy riches fuel bitcoin craze for speculation-shy Iceland

https://apnews.com/a6cd50b37105447991be9a9ce76c2421/Energy-riches-fuel-bitcoin-craze-for-speculation-shy-Iceland

New crayfish that doesn't need males to mate becomes all-powerful

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-43032061

Human Eggs Developed to Maturity in the Lab for the First Time

https://futurism.com/human-eggs-developed-maturity-lab-first-time/

DARPA Is Planning to Hack the Human Brain to Let Us “Upload” Skills

https://futurism.com/darpa-is-planning-to-hack-the-human-brain-to-let-us-upload-skills/

We Can Now Use Stem Cells to Grow Functioning Kidney Tissue

https://futurism.com/functioning-kidney-tissue-grown-inside-living-organism/

Welcome to the Era of the Computer-Generated Human

https://futurism.com/blurring-the-lines-this-girl-isnt-real/

Resonance Raman signature of intertube excitons in compositionally-defined carbon nanotube bundles

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03057-7

The black box set to revolutionize the search for life beyond Earth

https://phys.org/news/2018-02-black-revolutionize-life-earth.html

HPV (Gardasil) Cervical Cancer Vaccine Fraudulent on Every Level

http://www.jchristoff.com/hpv-gardasil-cervical-cancer-vaccine-fraudulent-on-every-level/

What Was Darwin’s ‘Original’ Thought? Nancy Pearcey

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/nancy-pearcey/what-was-darwins-original-thought

Scientists create functioning kidney tissue

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180209112402.htm

New malleable 'electronic skin' self-healable, recyclable

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180209170717.htm

Water filtration breakthrough using metal-organic frameworks

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180209170720.htm

Cancer-fighting nanorobots programmed to seek and destroy tumors

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180212112000.htm

Sea level rise accelerating: acceleration in 25-year satellite sea level record

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180212150739.htm

A Neoteric Human - Elon Musk

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/neoteric-human-elon-musk-kapil-panchal/

JOB ONE FOR QUANTUM COMPUTERS: BOOST ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

https://www.wired.com/story/job-one-for-quantum-computers-boost-artificial-intelligence/

Playground for physicists opens at ANU in honour of Questacon founder Mike Gore

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-09/anu-science-precinct-named-after-questacon-founder-mike-gore/9408084

History of science and technology in Korea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science_and_technology_in_Kore

Earth Went Strangely Quiet About 2 Billion Years Ago And We Don't Know Why

https://www.sciencealert.com/palaeoproterozoic-geological-quiet-period-first-supercontinent

SILICON VALLEY’S TAX-AVOIDING, JOB-KILLING, SOUL-SUCKING MACHINE

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a15895746/bust-big-tech-silicon-valley/

Diet may influence the spread of a deadly type of breast cancer, study finds

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-02-scientists-halt-breast-cancer.html

Scientists uncover role of gene in programmed cell death

http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2018/02/07/scientists-uncover-role-of-gene-in-programmed-cell-death/

5 technology trends to watch out for in 2018

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-technology-trends-watch-out-2018-naveen-joshi/

Re-educating Rita. Artificial intelligence will have implications for policymakers in education, welfare and geopolitics

https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21700760-artificial-intelligence-will-have-implications-policymakers-education-welfare-and

Established story about how humans came from Africa may be wrong, claims controversial new study

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/humans-came-from-africa-crete-study-australopithecus-early-fossil-a7929521.html

Viewing The Present Through The Lens of History

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@phil-johnson/viewing-the-present-through-the-lens-of-history

How Wind Farms Destroy the Environment (videos)

https://greenjihad.com/2018/02/07/how-wind-farms-destroy-the-environment/

Google's self-learning AI AlphaZero masters chess in 4 hours (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9SlVdv1PY

The Falcon Heavy test flight included a copy of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novels

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/2/6/16980538/spacex-falcon-heavy-isaac-asimovs-foundation-series

The Roots Of The Global Warming Religion (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4qqZqZbbi

How technology will help us feed the world (video)

https://greenjihad.com/2018/02/04/how-technology-will-help-us-feed-the-world/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=434_vnUtP14

Q & A with Ty & Charlene Bollinger Part 1 - The Truth About Vaccines (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZiA8waaylI

The good, the bad and the ugly? Amazon, Apple & healthcare

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/good-bad-ugly-amazon-apple-healthcare-lucien-engelen/

BLADE STUNNERS Inside the Chinese sex doll factory making ‘smart’ robots that can also talk, play music and even do the dishes

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5483178/sex-robots-doll-china-factory-smart-exdoll/

Don’t Let the Battery be the Boss

https://inside.battelle.org/blog-details/don-t-let-the-battery-be-the-boss

5 Myths About Depression We Need to Shut Down Immediately. So long as misconceptions about mental illness persist, so too will stigma. Posted Feb 01, 2018

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/nurturing-self-compassion/201802/5-myths-about-depression-we-need-shut-down-immediately

Researchers Discover 'Anxiety Cells' In The Brain

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/31/582112597/researchers-discover-anxiety-cells-in-the-brain

Why is loneliness so toxic? Scientists are exploring what it does to the human body

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/why-is-loneliness-so-toxic/article37734381/

Tech giants are the robber barons of our time

https://nypost.com/2018/02/03/big-techs-monopolistic-rule-is-hiding-in-plain-sight/

NewSpace Start-Up Aims To Send First Brazilian Probe To Moon

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2018/01/29/newspace-start-up-aims-to-send-first-brazilian-probe-to-moon/

Portable DNA Sequencer Searches for Life in Extraterrestrial-Like Conditions

https://www.space.com/39509-portable-dna-sequencer-search-for-life-tech.html

A revolution in health care is coming

https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21736138-welcome-doctor-you-revolution-health-care-coming

NASA’s Small Spacecraft Produces First 883-Gigahertz Global Ice-Cloud Map

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-s-small-spacecraft-produces-first-883-gigahertz-global-ice-cloud-map/

Hubble’s Majestic Spiral in Pegasus

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2018/hubbles-majestic-spiral-in-pegasus/

Air Force attempts to bring private-sector investment, innovation to space

http://spacenews.com/air-force-attempts-to-bring-private-sector-investment-innovation-to-space/

Climate: Heating Up Or Cooling Down?

https://principia-scientific.org/climate-heating-up-or-cooling-down/

How a hungry, hardy bacteria eats toxic metals and excretes gold nuggets

https://newatlas.com/bacteria-toxic-gold-nuggets/53230/

This killer whale has learned how to say 'hello,' 'bye bye,' and count to 3

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/01/31/this-killer-whale-has-learned-how-to-say-hello-bye-bye-and-count-to-3/23348837/

Great Barrier Reef Scientist Snubs Uni Gagging Order

https://principia-scientific.org/great-barrier-reef-scientist-snubs-uni-gagging-order/