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BBC – Future – What would happen if all the world’s trees disappeared?
In Mad Max: Fury Road, Charlize Theron’s Furiosa strives to return to “the Green Place” – a tree-filled oasis in the otherwise lifeless wasteland that the Earth has become. When Furiosa arrives at the sacred spot, however, she finds only skeletal trunks and sprawling dunes. She screams in anguish. Without trees, all hope seems lost. …
The first ever black hole image lands scientists $3 million prize
The prize will be split between the 347 scientists that worked on the ground-breaking project, which produced the very first image of a black hole. The data behind the image — which could confirm or at least pose significant questions about our understanding of the universe — was equivalent to the number of selfies 40,000 …
BBC – Future – Is soya bad for women’s health?
Consumed in many traditional Asian populations for millennia, soya has only been a common part of the Western diet for around 60 years. Now, many of our supermarkets are full of soy milk alternatives, soy burgers and other soya-based meat replacements – not to mention traditional soy-based products like tofu, tempeh, soya milk, miso and …
BBC – Future – Sunscreen: What the science says about ingredient safety
Melanoma is one of the deadliest cancers. It’s also one that – while still the least common form of skin cancer – is rising in prevalence around the world. Since the early 1990s, rates of melanoma in the UK have increased among every age group. Rates of non-melanoma have increased too. In the US alone, cases …
Breast Obsessions and Body Image – Seven Tips to Go From Obsessions to Health
From Booby-Trapped to Treasured Chest 1. Why breast? Why now? At the same time, during 1940’s when large female breasts were ‘discovered’ as the most efficient vehicle for promoting merchandize, advertisements agencies started using the image of large size female breasts for selling everything from toothpaste to cars. The wishes of women, who perceived their …
BBC – Travel – Does Egypt have the best falafel in the world?
It’s Wednesday afternoon in downtown Cairo, and the usual smorgasbord of humanity is going about its daily business. From sharp-suited businesspeople single-mindedly weaving through the capital’s notorious traffic to young men on bicycles perching wooden trays of fresh bread on their heads. Everyone, it seems, has somewhere to be. Down a small alleyway in the …
BBC – Future – The truth about saturated fat
Advice to limit intake of saturated fat has been official government policy in many countries, including the UK, for decades. But many people are ignoring this advice, preferring to believe that saturated fat – which is highest amounts in foods such as meat products, full fat dairy, butter, ghee, cakes and biscuits, as well as coconut and palm …
Breaking down the wonders of image recognition tech Google Lens
(Screenshot) Q: What can you tell me about Google Lens and does it work as well on an iPhone? A: Google’s image recognition technology, known as “Lens,” came to be through a myriad of acquisitions over many years, including one of my favorite early augmented reality text translation apps called Word Lens. As processing power …
Scientists unveil the first-ever image of quantum entanglement
Full-frame images recording the violation of a Bell inequality in four images. (A) The four coincidence counting images are presented, which correspond to images of the phase circle acquired with the four phase filters with different orientations, θ2 = {0° , 45° , 90° , 135°}, necessary to perform the Bell test. Scale bars, 1 …
BBC – Future – Apollo in 50 numbers: The technology
74: Memory (ROM) of Apollo guidance computer, in kilobytes Computer technology was one of the greatest – and long lasting – achievements of Apollo. From the solid-state microcomputer fitted to the lunar lander, to mighty IBM mainframes, with their flashing lights and banks of magnetic tape. To navigate the Apollo spacecraft the quarter of a …
