Bitcoin wallet provider Xapo gets legal approval in Switzerland

The significant strategic move could place the country as the home of bitcoin technology in the world. The digital currency is consistently gaining acceptance around across the world. While companies which provide virtual wallets have yet to become the norm and face a multitude of legal quagmire which typically drives away any non-savvy customer, in…

Visual Vertigo Could be Treated with the Help of Virtual Reality

A team of Cardiff University psychologists claim that diagnosis and treatment of visual vertigo can be possible by the use of virtual reality. People suffering from the condition often cite places with repetitive visual patterns, such as supermarkets, as the trigger and suffer from dizziness and nausea. To help with diagnosis and rehabilitation, a team…

Trump’s attempts to muzzle the scientific community will receive a very public backlash

Apart from the Women’s March, all those who oppose Trump’s attempt to block the flow of the dissipation of scientific knowledge and data will march against Trump’s policies. Access to scientific knowledge and data cannot be allowed to be obfuscated or placed beyond the reach of every citizen of this planet. As a result of…

Gene-alteration in ants has the potency for medical breakthroughs

According to the study, even an insignificant alteration of the ant’s DNA can impact its social behaviour. The study has the potential to impact research on complex biological systems such as autism, depression and even cancer. What is the percentage of societal behavior dictated by genetics, could be a million dollar question. Before you jump forward…

U.S. Agricultural Department rescinds gag order after vocal outcry from the scientific community and the public

The U.S. Agriculture Department had temporarily been ordered to not share its research regarding the effects and impact of climate change with taxpayers, the very people whose money is used to fund the research. Thankfully it didn’t last long: it was just day before yesterday that the United States’ Department of Agriculture had issued an…

MIT Researchers create sensors powerful enough to detect changes in a single protein

This new sensor array system could potentially lead to new breakthroughs in biopharmaceutical treatments. Although carbon nanotubes have since long been associated with new breakthroughs in computer science, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have now found an alternative use for them – medicine and chemical engineering. Researchers at MIT have published a paper…