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Documents, Fingerprints, Genetics: Storing & Searching Forensic Data

What goes on in the lab and how does it work? The technology behind crime-fighting and detective work we see on TV screens remains strangely opaque, yet much of it is decades old. And fascinating. The unfortunate consequence is innovation around it remains bottlenecked. Keywords in thousands of documentsThe first

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Can We Turn Sargassum Blooms Into An Agricultural Crop?

It's brown, and ugly, it's smelly, and it ruins vacations to the Caribbean. It destroys the tourism local people need to feed their families. Thousands of tonnes of this crap collect for hundreds of miles into blooms which block the beaches of at least twenty countries. And nobody's figured out

magic

Engineering Magic Tricks: The Science & Effects Behind Illusions

Illusioneering is the process of creating magic tricks, often through exploiting strange phenomena discovered in the STEM (science, technology and engineering) subjects as brain hacks. Trick interrupt the human senses of causality and continuity; they disrupt our perception of cause and effect. Strange quirks of physics are indistinguishable from magic.

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A Sci-Fi Future Of Small Modular Liquid Fluoride Thorium Molten Salt Reactors

We are paying the price of the 2022 energy crisis for the failures of our politicians 30 years ago. There is no way to provide for humanity's electricity needs other than a massive and unprecedented investment in nuclear energy. There simply is no other non-hydrocarbon source which can reliably serve

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Reverse Transcriptase, Antibody-Dependent Enhancement: Did A Lab Leak Interrupt China's Assembly Of A Genetic Weapon?

Chairman Mao put it bluntly: power comes from the barrel of a gun. The world's power is held by those with nuclear weapons. The Second World War was ended with them and created two superpowers. To be the world's most powerful superpower, you need the world's most powerful weapons. What's

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A Better Mind: The Great Unknowns & The Great Values

Our generation's most brilliant minds are burning CPU time explaining, to our least functional minds, the basic concept of the link between sex and gender; despite having more knowledge than ever before, we have less wisdom. It begs the simple question: what should we spending our time on? Well, there

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The Hopelessly Partisan Impartiality of Fact Checkers

Whenever anyone claims they are offering the "correct" perspective of the facts in a political context, you should be highly suspicious. Cynical, even. Aspiring to the "correct" version or opinion is something the Communist Party of China and their fans in Academia require and mandate you to do. "Fact checking"

drugs

Illegal Chemistry Vol.2 - New/Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS)

Alexander Shulgin died in 2014, but his legacy lives on. Breaking Bad finished, and captivated viewers in a way most producers couldn't have imagined. In the period of 2009-2017, 803 new substances of abuse had been reported onto the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) Early Warning

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Playing God with jaw-dropping controversial science

Ask many 21st students what they’d like to do in future with their lives and very few will confess to wanting to be a scientist. Days spent in a lab testing things in dishes and tubes, uncertainty over what used to be a stable career, along with a deep