technical updates

A few summers ago, Stefano Piraino was walking along the rocky shoreline on a small island off the coast of Sicily when he spotted a washed up jellyfish. Naturally, he tore a piece off and popped it into his mouth. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories http://bit.ly/2WL7etf

When the Kesharwanis decided to branch out and expand their family home, they came up with a novel way of dealing with an ancient giant fig tree in their garden—they built the house around it. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories http://bit.ly/2KnV8UZ

Deep under the ocean bed, a sinking tectonic plate causes a "swarm" of earthquakes, feeding molten rock into newly forming volcanoes, new research has discovered. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories http://bit.ly/2IVWROq

Be sure to look up from your phones for a few minutes tonight to see the Strawberry Moon, which will be visible from sundown to sunrise. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories http://bit.ly/2N4mhyi

If the world were on track to meet the Paris Agreement goal of less than 2 degrees Celsius of global warming, methane levels in the atmosphere would theoretically be dropping. Instead, they have been rising since 2007, and shooting up even faster since 2014. A perspective published in the journal Science discusses the potential causes and consequences of our planet's out-of-control methane. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories http://bit.ly/31PnQno

The experience we know as password hell could be radically changed for the better within the next year and a half to three years. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories http://bit.ly/2KosqDn

Chuck Carey is an experienced engineer and self-described technophile, but he's also wary of the proliferation of data-hoovering, Internet-connected devices such as the microphone-and-speaker combos used with digital assistants such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories http://bit.ly/2WRftsk