(UFU - 2018 - 1a FASE)
“Once we’re dead, we’re dead. I don’t want a Japanese designer to start designing Dolce & Gabbana,” Gabbana, 55, said in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
The veteran fashionistas launched their brand in 1985 and...
(UFU - 2018 - 1a FASE)
Do Gun Owners Want Gun Control?
By Jess Bidgood and Sabrina Tavernise
Tom Galinat signed a letter to lawmakers, urging them to expand background checks for gun purchases. Mr. Galinat, 35, a farmer and hunter who owns nine guns, traveled last month from his home in Peach...
(UFU - 2018 - 1a FASE)
New Studies Link Cell Phone Radiation with Cancer
Researchers call for greater caution, but skeptics say the
evidence from rat studies is not convincing
By Charles Schmidt
Does cell phone radiation cause cancer? New studies show a correlation in lab rats, but the evid...
(UFU - 2018 - 1a FASE)
A new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, established the chemical composition of Uranus’ upper cloud deck for the first time. Using an instrument called the Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer (NIFS) at the Gemini North telescope in Hawa...
(UFU - 2018 - 1a FASE)
Technology and its discontents
Nuclear bombs can destroy us. Facebook undermines our privacy. Artificial intelligence (AI) and robots can enslave us (or, worse, take our jobs). Synthetic biology and geneediting have humans playing God. Social media make us depressed: we...
(UFU - 2018 - 1a FASE)
The assistant we didn’t ask for, but can’t live without
“Weird.” “Curious.” “Baffling.” “Quite Stupid.” These words all once described Alexa, the voice-activated digital assistant on Amazon’s Echo device....
(UFU - 2018 - 1a FASE)
“The woman hangs upside down behind her husband”
Novelist and travel journalist Jo Piazza on the benefits of competing in the wife-carrying race
You don’t hear that enough in life. But it was the first thing my husband and I were told after flying acr...
(UFU - 2018 - 1a FASE)
A Shoe Engineered to Boost Performance
By Julia Zorthian
Imagine a shoe that lets you run faster, pivot better and jump higher. That’s the idea behind the Futurecraft 4D, a new sneaker whose midsole can be expertly tailored to the needs of its wearers—not on...
(UFU - 2018 - 1a FASE)
Über-Adaptable Airless Tires
By Lisa Eadicicco
In the future, our cars will be smart, and our tires will be smarter. For starters, it’s airless, eliminating the need to worry about pounds per square inch. It’s also made from recycled materials in an eff...