There are legal, social and political ramifications to jamming cell phone signals. Police want to do it to stop protestors or criminals from organizing and monitoring police activity. Governments want to control information. Security teams want to make sure explosives can’t be triggered with cell phone calls. It’s tricky to regulate jamming devices because law […]

Luke’s missing hand is supposed to foreshadow that he is becoming more like Vader, and as the new trailer demonstrates, Luke is destined to eventually succumb to the dark side of the force. Modern prosthesis in the real world are becoming more functional, including the ability to control movement of prosthetic limbs through brainwave reading […]

Can an image, sound, video or string of words influence the human mind so strongly the mind is actually harmed or controlled? Cosmoso takes a look at technology and the theoretical future of psychological warfare with Part Three of an ongoing series.  Click here for Part One. Click here for Part Two. A lot of […]

It makes for a sensational headline but NASA didn’t even come close to discovering warp technology. The mechanism behind their fuel-free propulsion has no clear link to warping space-time. In fact, space-time is not proven or understood to exist as a material substance able to warp. It’s all nonsense. So what really happened? Richard Feynman […]

Clickbait headlines claiming there is poop in people’s beards whipped around social media this week. It’s junk science based on common misconceptions about bacteria. Of course, I wanted to read the evidence for myself, like I do with all outrageous, suspicious claims. I couldn’t even find a study cited in any of the articles. All […]

Bill Maher threw softballs at the most famous anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on”Real Time” Kennedy isn’t the only prominent vaccine denier but he’s the current media darling for whatever reason. After several hints in the past about vaccine paranoia,  Maher took it to the next level and had a notable anti-vaccine conspiracy […]

in·tu·i·tion ˌint(y)o͞oˈiSH(ə)n/ noun noun: intuition the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. People tend to trust their own intuition. Has there been much formal study about the veracity of intuition? Brain science itself is a young field, and the terminology has yet to mature into a solid academic lexicon. To […]

From folklore to children’s stories, it seems humans have always been fascinated with spider silk, the diverse material produced in abundance, at will from the body of nearly all species of spider. Studying the biomechanics of the spinnerets and the chemicals that combine to produce various textures of silk at a molecular level has allowed […]

Biomimicry is the study of nature as inspiration for human designs in effort to fit  human technology into a more efficient and workable, sustainable model. Each organism alive today has the potential to teach humankind about the systems and rules it follows. Natural solutions aren’t just about having better materials. They are about making products […]

Some of the most poisonous animals on the planet are found down under. Australian researchers retrieved exciting new data when taking a closer look at spider venom. Biosynthesized chemicals designed to be highly reactive with other organisms could inspire new drugs and, eventually, an entire new class of painkillers. It can be defensive but the […]