This week we’ve got the OSIRIS-REX flyby, this year’s IgNobel Prizes, and an electric bus that went a hell of a long way! It’s the sci-tech roundup for Sunday, September 24, 2017!
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Today we’ve got the end of the incredible Cassini mission, the efficacy of using the banhammer on Reddit’s bigots, and the sheer unrelenting incompetence of Equifax—it’s the sci-tech roundup for Sunday, September 17, 2017!
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Sorry guys, it’s not a good news week. We’ve got stories on North Korea building a hydrogen bomb, climate change making hurricanes and wildfires worse while American politicians scream about how now is “not the time” to talk about climate change, and a hack so big that nearly one in two people with an American credit history are affected. It’s the apocalyptic news roundup for Sunday, September 10, 2017.
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This week we’ve got stories about the role climate change played in making the disaster known as Harvey, a new pick for NASA administrator, and the starting up of a 3.4km-long X-ray laser called XFEL. It’s the news roundup for Sunday, September 3, 2017!
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This week we’ve got stories of a possible new type of gravitational wave discovery, the beginning of the video-throttling wars, and a few stories from SpaceX and Elon Musk. It’s the news roundup for Sunday, August 27, 2017!
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This week’s news roundup is brought to you by my Saturday activities—joining 40,000 protesters in the streets of Boston to give the middle finger to a pack of cowardly white supremacists, and then having a drink afterward to both celebrate the success and mourn the need to do it in the first place. So without further ado, here it is: the weekly roundup for Sunday, August 20, 2017.
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This week we’ve got stories on finding proof of an elusive particle, Google firing at least one misogynist (for a change) and a climate change report that we all get to see before the White House tries to ignore and/or bury it. It’s the news roundup for August 12, 2017!
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This week we’ve got stories about the newest kind of Bitcoin on the block, genetically modified salmon hitting the market in Canada, and a new asteroid-mining law in Luxembourg that might be worth watching in the decade to come. It’s the news roundup for Sunday, August 6, 2017!
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This week we’ve got stories on the release of the Tesla Model 3 into the wild, a story about a Type 1 Diabetes vaccine that’s not really what it seems, and more evidence that football isn’t good for your brain. It’s the weekly roundup for Sunday, July 30, 2017!
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Today we’ve got stories on a whole lot of changes taking place at SpaceX, the beginning of a decade-long saga to build a better neutrino detector, and a UK ban on using public funds for homeopathic quackery. It’s the news roundup for Sunday, July 23, 2017!
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