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• Plant cells signal between each other to agree on what time it is

  Anyone who has travelled across multiple time zones and suffered jet lag will understand just how powerful our biological clocks are. In fact, every cell in the human body has its own molecular clock, which is capable of generating a daily rise and fall in the number of many proteins ...

  • The Conversation

• Stolen fingerprints could spell the end of biometric security – here’s how to save it

  The biggest known biometric data breach to date was reported recently when researchers managed to access a 23-gigabyte database of more than 27.8m records including fingerprint and facial recognition data. The researchers, working with cyber-security firm VPNMentor, said that they ...

  • The Conversation

• Silicon Valley wants to read your mind – here's why you should be worried

  Not content with monitoring almost everything you do online, Facebook now wants to read your mind as well. The social media giant recently announced a breakthrough in its plan to create a device that reads people’s brainwaves to allow them to type just by thinking. And Elon Musk ...

  • The Conversation

• Nanotechnology promises to revolutionize global nutrition — but it might be dangerous

  Proponents of nanotechnology say it will revolutionize farming and global food systems, with applications being explored that could cut waste, make food safer and help create ‘super crops’ that escape the controversial label of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). If successful, ...

  • Mićo Tatalović

• Why reCAPTCHA is actually an act of human torture

  Like many things that start out as a mere annoyance, though eventually grow into somewhat of an affliction. One particular dark and insidious thing has more than reared its ugly head in recent years, and now far more accurately described as an epidemic disease. I'm talking ...

  • Nils Gronkjaer

• Animals eat each other, so why don't we?

  Vulnerable spadefoot tadpoles eat their smaller competitors to speed towards toadhood as quickly as possible. Gulls and pelicans are among bird species that eat hatchlings for food or to prevent the spread of disease. In insect species such as the praying mantis or the Australian ...

  • The Conversation

• AI won't automate cybersecurity — but it'll improve the solutions we already have

  Cybersecurity, a huge industry worth over $100 billion, is regularly subject to buzzwords. Cybersecurity companies often (pretend) to use new state-of-the-art technologies to attract customers and sell their solutions. Naturally, with artificial intelligence being in one of its craziest ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Dinosaur egg bonanza gives vital clues about prehistoric parenting

  Perhaps the most amazing thing about fossils is that they don’t just show us what extinct animals looked like, they can also reveal how those animals lived. Even a fossilized dinosaur egg can provide a wealth of clues about its parents’ behavior. Dinosaur hunters in the Javkhlant ...

  • The Conversation

• We're now polluting the moon with near indestructible little creatures

  An Israeli spacecraft called Beresheet almost made it to the moon in April. It took a selfie with the lunar surface in the ...

  • The Conversation

• WhatsApp played a big role in the Nigerian election — not all of it was bad

  There is growing concern about the potential for the message and media sharing platform WhatsApp to undermine democracy in ...

  • The Conversation

• 3D printing with moondust could be the key to setting up a colony on the moon

  1The entire Apollo 11 mission to the moon took just eight days. If we ever want to build permanent bases on the moon, or ...

  • The Conversation

• How plants’ ability to ‘think’ might force us to redefine intelligence

  Some might balk at the idea that plants made of roots, stems and leaves could have intelligence or consciousness. But scientists ...

  • The Conversation