All the stories tagged with scientists

Grow Your Next Piña Colada With The AusFestival Coconut-Flavored Pineapples

12/07/2012, It’s Friday which means we’re all just a few hours away to the weekend, which also means we’re a few hours away from getting our drink on. I’m not much of a drinker, but I certainly can appreciate the deliciousness [...]

Scientists come up with a way to grease-proof our devices

12/02/2011, Now it doesn’t matter how big or how glossy or how vivid our smartphone/tablet displays are. Without fail our greasy fingers (and that of our friends/family/strangers) will stain our displays, leaving long and ugly fingerprints and marks on them at [...]

Scientists in spain develop a machine that helps detect rotten fruit

10/18/2011, When it comes to buying fruits, most of us just inspect the outer layer of the fruit to check for mould or bruises which might indicate that the fruit may have been damaged on its way to the market. Thanks [...]

Salt used to increase hard drive storage capacity

10/17/2011, With the quality of our media on our computers getting larger (i.e. HD movies, Blu-ray rips, etc), and with the quality of our games going up and eating up more resources, we’re starting to need more and more hard disk [...]

Scientists develop self-wiring chip

10/17/2011, There’s an increasing trend to start producing gadgets that are getting thinner and thinner with each generation. Heck, Motorola is set to unveil the Droid RAZR, which based on the legacy of the RAZR feature phone, will most probably end [...]

Nanorockets used to deliver drugs to the system

10/03/2011, What cooler way to deliver drugs (the good kind that saves lives) to your system than by shooting nanorockets through your body’s system? Not only is this supposedly a faster method of delivery, but will also be able to target [...]

Jelly-like battery could result in thinner, cheaper and safer batteries

09/12/2011, Thanks to scientists and their research at the University of Leeds, it appears that jelly has been upgraded from a tasty treat to something that could possibly power your mobile devices in the future, in a thinner, cheaper and safer [...]

Brain used to control computer

04/07/2011, US researchers over at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have laid claim that patients who had a temporary surgical implant, are able to make use of regions in the brain which control speech to “talk” to [...]

Scientists are one step closer to creating an invisibility cloak

02/03/2011, Ever wanted a cloak like the Harry Potter uses to sneak about Hogwarts at night? Well, we’re on step closer to such technology. Since we don’t have magic, we have the brains of scientists to create such a device instead. [...]

Woolly mammoth to be given a second chance at life

01/18/2011, Back in the year 2007, the frozen carcass of a one-month-old woolly mammoth calf was discovered in Russia. The mammoth was estimated to have been frozen for approximately 10,000 years. Though the mammoth has been long gone and dead, it [...]