All the stories tagged with science
New Software Resurrects Dead Languages
02/13/2013, Researchers have managed to piece together a new tool that was specially developed in order to help it reconstruct long-dead languages, where it is also known as protolanguages. Protolanguages are considered to be the ancient tongues from which our modern [...]
German Student Wants To Harness Electricity From Thin Air
02/12/2013, Dennis Siegel is a German student from the University of Arts Bremen, and he is working on a device that can gather energy from various radiation sources, including hi-tech radio signals like WiFi, GSM etc, but this should work with [...]
Film Material For Windows Switches From Translucent to Mirror Mode
02/12/2013, One of the biggest energy requirement for a city is to heat or cool down buildings and houses. It is not easy to design a place that will be warm in the winter, and stay cool in the summer, and [...]
Giant inflatable plug could have stopped NYC flooding?
11/05/2012, You know when Captain Planet is in retirement and the Planeteers are nowhere in sight, the only way to avoid New York City’s huge subway system from flooding during the full fury of Hurricane Sandy could very well have been [...]
Used car tires could have stopped Superstorm Sandy?
11/05/2012, Superstorm Sandy certainly did quite a number on the east coast of the US last week, but it seems that one of Britain’s leading marine engineers, Stephen Salter, emeritus professor of engineering design at Edinburgh University and a global pioneer [...]
Camera scoffs at frosted glass, sees around corners
11/05/2012, If there is one thing that absolutely kills you while watching movies, it is this – the hero is about to peer around the corner, where you know for sure danger is lurking there, but all the screaming in the [...]
Gold-producing bacteria used by researchers
10/03/2012, Throughout human history, many have tried to ‘create’ gold from other materials. We popularly know these people as alchemists, none of which succeeded of course. Thanks to the modern understanding of the chemical elements and the ability to use them [...]
Light switches for faster Internet?
10/02/2012, I am quite sure that you have heard of the phrase, “fighting fire with fire”, but how about this new one in the world of engineering, “using light to control light”? A team of scientists and engineers at the University [...]
The MakerBot Replicator 2 puts mad scientist-level prototyping within reach
09/19/2012, MakerBot’s new 3D printer was revealed at a event in Brooklyn, NY today, and although the 3D printer isn’t a household item yet, this iteration brings the concept closer to ubiquity. 3D printers lay down PLA plastic to form actual objects [...]
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 [...]
