Last week, we learned that Elon Musk will start a mind-computer interface company called Neuralink. The name added a brainy new entry to Musk’s growing scroll of big ideas—Tesla, SolarCity, SpaceX, the Hyperloop. Elon Musk has announced another visionary tech venture. His new company Neuralink will work on linking human brains with computers, utilizing “neural lace” technology. This invention would …

Most galaxies contain a supermassive black hole at the center. There’s a lot we don’t know them, even our own in the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*. But now over a decade’s worth of development has readied a telescope that scientists will use to solve some of the biggest mysteries about black holes. On April 5, astronomers will start imaging Sagittarius …

The RCMP says that it has arrested a Toronto man for leaving Canada to participate in the activity of a terrorist group. The RCMP alleges 27-year-old Pamir Hakimzadah travelled to Turkey during the fall of 2014 to join the Islamic State but was subsequently returned to Canada after being detained by Turkish authorities. Toronto cops are also holding Hakimzadah for …

According to a recent study published in the journal Gut, long-term use of antibiotics during adulthood increases the likelihood of developing precursors to bowel cancer. The research, once again, underlines the vital role of gut bacteria. The findings add to evidence that the type and diversity of bacteria in the gut, referred to as the ‘microbiome,’ may have a key …

Beware fathers, your energy drinks intake can affect children’s mental health. Researchers at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) have now shown that if male rodents are fed a diet rich in folic acid, methionine and vitamin B12, their progeny do not perform well in memory tests. The diet influences so-called epigenetic patterns in the genome, and this reprogramming …

Scientists in France are looking for volunteers to spend 60 days straight in bed to test the effects of weightlessness. According to The Guardian, researchers at the Institute are looking for young, fit and healthy males to do nothing else but lie on their back for 60 whole days in an effort to study the effects of microgravity, a state …

Mysterious signals called fast radio bursts (FRB) are from deep space and could be evidence of advanced alien technology, according to a study Australian scientists published Monday. FRBs are short, bright and highly dispersed pulses of radio waves that occur randomly. They typically last just a few milliseconds but register about a billion times brighter than anything ever observed in …

Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux hit the town for Tuesday’s premiere of HBO’s The Leftovers and if they weren’t #relationshipgoals already, the couple color-coordinated to a tee. The Golden Globe winning actress (48) hit the red carpet with her husband for the premiere of season three of drama The Leftovers, opting for an asymmetrical leather mini-dress. The couple, who wed …

NASA’s fabled Cassini mission is about to come to an abrupt but long-coming end. On Wednesday, April 26, the spacecraft will make the first in a series of dives through the 1,500-mile-wide (2,400-kilometer) gap between Saturn and its rings as part of the mission’s grand finale. “No spacecraft has ever gone through the unique region that we’ll attempt to boldly …

It seems like Apple has not forgotten about its Mac Pro user base. The iPhone makers assured them in a round table discussion on Monday that a brand-new Mac Pro will be getting launched in 2018. Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller revealed that Apple would be “completely rethinking the Mac Pro”, as quoted by Buzzfeed. Schiller continued: “Since …

Evidence has finally been found of how Britain split from Europe — not last month, but half a million years ago. Scientists have found geological proof of one theory, that a catastrophic flood sparked massive waterfalls that cut through the rock ridge running through what’s now the Dover Strait. According to the authors of the study — published Tuesday in …