Could emerging tech present new forensics in the suspicious early demise of controversial Rolling Stone reporter, Michael Hastings? How cheaper hardware and open-sourced coding could shed new light on a murder as the possibility of remotely hacking today’s cars gains traction. Hacking your car might already be possible. This tweet by NYT tech writer, Nick […]

Controversial hero of the information revolution to some, traitor to the American empire to others, Edward Snowden is popping up in headlines again. A lot of Cosmoso might have caught the John Oliver interview. The interview is an instant classic and will be talked about for a long time but it was also genuinely funny, […]

A lot of people really want alternate universes to make sense but they don’t. It makes for great sci fi and it’s a fun thought experiment, but alternate universes might be based on too much assumption to be considered good science: back in October, 2014, Wiseman and Deckert suggested a new take on the Many […]

Quantum theory can be misinterpreted to support false claims. Quantum science isn’t a young science anymore. This year, 2015, the term “quantum”, as it relates to quantum physics, turns 113 years old. The term as we know it first appeared “in a 1902 article on the photoelectric effect by Philipp Lenard, who credited Hermann von […]

CRISPR isn’t just the cutting edge of genetic modification – it is re-framing our understanding of evolution.  What is CRISPR? CRISPR is a DNA sequence that can do something most other genes can’t. It changes based on the experience of the cell it’s written in.  It works because of a natural ability for cells to […]

Maybe Jean-Baptiste Lamarck wasn’t as wrong as we thought. New Info Gives Life to an Old Dimension of Evolution. Biology students may remember the historical roots of evolution, back to the oft-taught lesson of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s argument for the inheritance of biological traits. Calling himself a naturalist, rather than a scientist, Jean-Baptiste’s work in the […]

Right now, Eric Evenchick is presenting CANtact at Black Hat Asia 2015 security conference in Singapore. Cantact is a hardware interface that attaches to the car’s CPU at one end and a regular laptop at the other. He’s already figured out how to do several simple hacks. It may sound like a simple device but […]

Sebastian Morales Prado is a mechanical engineer in Chicago who, as he says, works to merge science and art. A graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Morales now works for SmarterShade Inc. and serves as an artist in residence at Autodesk Pier 9.

Unexpected results are sort of the point of lab experiments. Laboratory studies reveal the unforeseen and if they didn’t, there would seldom be a reason to perform lab studies. It can be problematic when scientists don’t get the results they wanted or thought to expect but other times new data can be the result of […]

A picture is worth a thousand words with CLIP 3D’s laser-cured liquid printing. 3D printing is one of the best up and coming tech fields to follow. CLIP 3D Printing is the fastest device to date. Designers and engineers are starting to rely on 3D printing to stay competitive but the process is far from […]