Science and Technology

In the 1990s, the United States military delved into the concept of developing a chemical weapon aimed at inducing homosexuality among its targets. This initiative, strangely aligning with the mantra “make love, not war,” contemplated the deployment of a “gay bomb”. The plan was to disperse potent substances with aphrodisiac …

Robot maker Promobot is looking for people who are willing to lend their faces. The volunteers will be able to sell the license of their face for a large reward of $ 200,000. The faces sold will then be attributed to humanoid robots which will be marketed by 2023. They will be used in hotels, restaurants, supermarkets, …

Did you ever think that food could be produced this way? The answer is yes, and judging by what scientists at the Japanese University of Osaka have “printed”, it is perfectly possible to do so fairly faithfully. What have they achieved? Simple, but surprising: a piece of meat from the famous cut of …

Innovative ideas often start with meaningful observation. For Cho Jae-weon, professor of urban and environmental engineering at the National University of Science and Technology of Ulsan (UNIST) in South Korea, the creation of a new digital currency was born from a simple biological fact: everyone poops. By developing a system that …

An innovative technique invented by two young Mexican entrepreneurs is to create vegan leather from cactus, which is eco-friendly but also similar to real leather. People have been trying for a long time to find a new, sustainable and eco-friendly alternative to cruelty-free leather. And now it’s done with this vegan …

Algeria and Germany have signed a preliminary agreement for several days to start the gigantic Desertec project. This was communicated this Sunday, April 12 by the Algerian Minister of Energy, Mohamed Arkab, on the airwaves of radio-Algerian. This major project aims to transform the Algerian desert, a huge resource of solar energy. …

Lola lived 5,700 years ago and loved to chew prehistoric chewing gum. The latter was found, perfectly preserved, by Danish researchers who extracted a myriad of information on the life of Lola. She lived at the present site of Syltholm, on the Island of Lolland, in Denmark, 5,700 years before …

A recent study by researchers – on tomatoes, tobacco and the vertebral cactus – has shown that plants emit ultrasound when subjected to severe stress conditions In recent years, researchers have discovered that plants are able to see, hear and smell, but no one thought they could make sounds the …

Two members of Project Zero, Google’s elite bug-hunting team, have printed details and demo proof-of-concept code for 5 of six “interactionless” security bugs that impact the iOS package and may be exploited via the iMessage consumer. All six security flaws were patched last week, on July 22, with Apple’s iOS twelve.4 release. Details concerning one in every of the “interactionless” vulnerabilities are unbroken non-public as a …

Divorce is wide celebrated to own a large sort of mental effects on the youngsters of separate oldsters, however is there a affiliation between youngsters of unmarried oldsters and their own ultimate divorces? According to past studies, spouses that area unit the youngsters of unmarried oldsters area unit 3 times a lot ofwish to endure the divorce method themselves. this idea, called the divorce cycle, relies round the conceptyoungsters can become old seeing their oldsters struggle to stay their conflicts out of the general public eye, and in doing thus, can eventually become old to partake within the same behavior. But a replacement study suggests that whereas nurture …

Saudi researchers have developed a hydrogel that can absorb a lot of water into the air and release it on demand. An invention that could allow the inhabitants of the deserts to hydrate themselves at a lower cost. An oasis in the desert. Nothing surprising in itself, except when this aquatic haven …

In the biggest secrecy, Facebook has paid people from 13 to 35 years to scrutinize their habits on their mobiles! An Orwellian scenario. Since 2016, the Facebook company paid mobile users to draw conclusions from their online habits and behaviors. To do this, these volunteer guinea pigs had to download a ” Facebook …

A team of researchers are developing a technology that can interpret images of the body’s actions in a person’s dream. To watch his dreams like a movie is soon no longer science fiction! We have all had a dream that we can not remember when we wake up . To this day, viewing his …

Des chercheurs japonais planchent actuellement sur la mise au point d’une « gomme électrique illimitée » qui conserverait tout son goût tant qu’elle est mastiquée. Les scientifiques des universités de Tokyo et de Meiji (Japon) ont utilisé un dispositif qui stimule électriquement les récepteurs gustatifs de la langue pour donner au chewing-gum une …

Facebook a confirmé qu’il travaillait sur une paire de lunettes de réalité augmentée. Les lunettes de science-fiction vous permettraient de voir des objets virtuels dans le monde réel – comme s’ils y étaient réellement. Ficus Kirkpatrick, responsable AR du réseau social, a déclaré à  TechCrunch : “Ouais! Bien sûr, nous y travaillons.” …