An anonymous reader quotes a report from Softpedia: It’s finally here! After so many months of development and hard work, during which over 6,600 bugs have been patched, the Wine project is happy to announce today, January 24, 2017, the…
USDA Scrambles To Ease Concerns After Researchers Were Ordered To Stop Publishing Publicly Funded Science
Layzej writes: Popular Science reports that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now barred from communicating with the public. [And early this morning, BuzzFeed revealed that] The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has banned scientists and other employees from sharing…
Scientists Create 3D Bioprinter Capable of Printing Living Human Skin
New submitter drunkdrone quotes a report from International Business Times: Spanish scientists say they have developed a prototype 3D printer that is capable of printing “functional” human skin that can be used for transplant patients, as well as an ethical…
India To Send Surveyors To Find Out If Everest Shrunk From Nepal Earthquake
OffTheLip writes: Recent scrutiny into the officially recorded height of the world’s tallest mountain will lead to a re-measurement. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal in 2015 is being eyed as the reason. India’s surveyor general Swarna Subba Rao said, “We…
George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Sales of George Orwell’s dystopian drama 1984 have soared after Kellyanne Conway, adviser to the reality-TV-star-turned-president, Donald Trump, used the phrase “alternative facts” in an interview. As of Tuesday, the book…