All the stories tagged with: science
Chemistry Project by 10th Grade Student Goes Viral [Video]
05/29/2012, A 16 year old high school student had no idea that a video he made for extra credit in his 10th grade chemistry class would be what it is now. Eli Cirino, who in my personal opinion deserves at least [...]
Scientists Create Super Adhesive Inspired from Gecko Feet
04/30/2012, A team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have taken inspiration from a gecko climbing up a wall and subsequently created a super-strong adhesive material which is based closely on the feet of the wall-climbing lizard.
Microryza: Crowd Funding for Scientific Research
04/12/2012, A firm called Microryza launched today has taken the famous crowd-based fundraising model applied in websites like Kickstarter and applied it to something that is essential for the steadily improving quality of life here on earth; scientific research. While it [...]
Lab-grown hamburgers need no cows
02/22/2012, The next time you bite into a juicy beef patty, here is some food for thought (pun not intended) – it could not be real beef as in, from a humanely slain cow, but rather, “meat” that has been grown [...]
Plant eats worms now
01/11/2012, Here is a little respite from all the usual CES news that has flooded our site for the past few days – and while no real tech is involved here, it does bring a smile to our faces since the [...]
Text generated from brain images
09/01/2011, Imagine the future where you are able to get a text output from nothing but your thoughts – yes, that is right, Princeton scientists have managed to make it possible, although their effort is still in its infancy. These scientists [...]
Cyborg roaches love Lady Gaga tunes
08/15/2011, Cockroaches, or roaches for short, are more or less the pariahs of the insect world, even though they are most definitely going to survive and perhaps even thrive in a post-nuclear world compared to us humans, but for the moment, [...]
Cellphones do affect the brain: new study
02/23/2011, In yet another such study, the National Institute of Health finds that using a cellphone for as little as 50mn does modify the brain activity in the region near the antenna. Don’t panic yet: there’s no signs that this is [...]
Science: Head-mounted camera implant rejected
02/09/2011, You might remember the freaky story about a professor that embedded a camera at the back of his head via a titanium plate? Well, it turns out that he’s facing a few challenges at this point as he just underwent [...]
Laser-propelled rockets in the future?
01/24/2011, We’ve already seen laser-powered helicopters from LaserMotive and perhaps the company will go about sending rockets into space using lasers in the near future too. One of the issues about sending a chemical-powered rocket into space is that you need [...]
Researchers use LCD projectors for mind control?
01/18/2011, The smart folks over at the Georgia Institute of Technology have managed to use inexpensive components from ordinary liquid crystal display (LCD) projectors to control both the brains and muscles of tiny organisms such as worms. While previous research was [...]
Researchers try to determine if you’re a pro gamer with science
01/13/2011, Are researchers running out of things to research about? Probably not, but a group of psychology professors at the University of Illinois have been doing some research and discovered that you can tell how gifted someone is at gaming by [...]
Spinal implant could cancel pain signals
12/14/2010, Researchers Down Under might just come up with a new implantable chip which is capable of canceling the pain signals sent from the spine to the brain in human trials. This chip will naturally target folks who suffer from chronic [...]
