Matthew Ocko
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Rossen reports exclusive: 'drone hunter' captures enemy targets before attacks
Drones are more popular than ever, but the recent assassination attempt of Venezuela’s leader by drone shows the dark side to the new technology. Federal state and local officials worry it could happen here. But airspace security company Fortem...
Matthew Ocko
See @TODAYshow cover fully autonomous hunter-killer drones to stop terror drones - and terrorists.
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The transcriptional landscape of polyploid wheat
Wheat is one of the major sources of food for much of the world. However, because bread wheat's genome is a large hybrid mix of three separate subgenomes, it has been difficult to produce a high-quality reference sequence. Using recent advances in...
The Twenty Minute VC - Venture Capital, Startup Funding, The Pitch
Venture Capital, Startup Funding, The Pitch
Trapped in 99-Million-Year-Old Amber, a Beetle With Pilfered Pollen
The discovery is among the strongest evidence in the fossil record that the insects pollinated prehistoric cycads, a plant that preceded flowering plants.
Museum Visitor Falls Into Giant Hole That Looks Like a Cartoonish Painting on the Floor
Like a real-life version of a Looney Tunes cartoon, a visitor to a Portuguese museum was injured last week when he stepped into an art installation resembling an inky void. Currently on exhibit at the Serralves Museum in Porto, Descent Into Limbo by...
How to build a super-magnet
Ziad Melhem outlines the thinking that went into the design and development of the world’s most powerful all-superconducting magnet
The Parasitic Vine That Slowly Sucks The Life Out of Wasps
“Pretty freaky”
Antidepressant restores youthful flexibility to aging inhibitory neurons in mice
A new study provides fresh evidence that the decline in the capacity of brain cells to change, called "plasticity," rather than a decline in total cell number may underlie some of the sensory and cognitive declines associated with normal brain...
How Unpaywall is transforming open science
Unpaywall has become indispensable to many academics, and tie-ins with established scientific search engines could broaden its reach.
Narrow-beam laser technology enables communications between underwater vehicles
Nearly five years ago, NASA and Lincoln Laboratory made history when the Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) used a pulsed laser beam to transmit data from a satellite orbiting the moon to Earth—more than 239,000 miles—at a...
Shaping the Future of Environment and Natural Resource Security
The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated...
Flooding in Toronto is the new normal
In Toronto right now, there’s a lot of truth to the saying “When it rains, it pours.”
Late summer storms that have the weather turning from pleasan...
There’s a new insecticide on the block, and it’s also bad news for bees
Scientists call for evidence-based approach to approving new insecticides.
How to Protect Yourself Against a SIM Swap Attack
Your phone number is increasingly tied to your online identity. You need to do everything possible to protect it.
The very first living thing is still alive inside each one of us
A cellular machine so powerful that it gave rise to all of life and created our marble planet can tell us how it all began
How 3D Printing Will Change Business | Josh Wolfe Interview | Real Vision
Josh Wolfe, Lux Capital co-founder and managing director, speaks with Real Vision about how 3D printing, virtual reality and the evolution of mathematical ap...
This Stunning Metro Station Is Also an Ecological Wonder
Stockholm's deepest subway station has developed its own self-sufficient ecosystem.
Osiris-Rex: Chasing Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft will hunt down an asteroid and return a sample to Earth.
How Deja Baker overcame long odds and finally landed her dream job
Her title may be unremarkable—software engineer at a Chicago trading firm—but the journey she took to land it is a triumph that doesn’t fit neatly on a resume.