science

Scientists Finally Observe Gravitational Waves 100 Years After Einstein Predicted Them

One of the major predictions from Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity involve ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves, whi... Read More...

This Incredible Chemistry Set Comes With 35 Experiments You’ll Actually Enjoy

Chemistry sets used to be crazy, including substances that, when combined, can create explosions and melt holes through stuff. Yeah, they weren’t very safe.... Read More...

Japanese Scientists Just Fired The World’s Most Powerful Laser Beam

Scientists from Japan’s Osaka University just fired the most powerful laser ever. Using a device called the LFEX (short for Laser for Fast Ignition Experime... Read More...

Scientists Just Used Graphene To Create A Super-Thin Light Source

Graphene is amazing. And we’ve only just touched on the very surface of what we can do with the wonder material. Here’s another innovation a group of scient... Read More...

Forget Retinal Scans And Fingerprints, Brainprints Could Be The Biometrics Of The Future

Passwords suck. At least, the way we handle them suck. From users creating weak passwords to hackers compromising them using simple social engineering, it’s... Read More...

A New Discovery Could Enable Us To Manipulate Crop Genes And Grow Supersized Fruits

While they were originally berries no larger than olives, tomatoes have grown bigger over the years, mostly as a result of selective domestication. Some bre... Read More...

Someone Made A Portable Fire Extinguisher That Uses Sound Waves To Put Out Flames

Scientists have long been experimenting with using sound waves to stop fires. So far, though, no one’s been able to shrink the devices capable of squashing ... Read More...

Scientists Create Self-Cleaning Paint That’s Also Highly-Resistant To Scratching

Super-hydrophobic paint isn’t just great because it repels water, it’s also naturally self-cleaning, so there’s no accumulation of dirt as with regular coat... Read More...

In The Future, We Will Really Be Flying Planes Using Just Our Minds

It’s the kind of stuff we’ve relegated to science fiction, but, apparently, flying planes using just our minds isn’t that far off. At least, that’s the conc... Read More...

Watch This Man Who’s Been Blind For A Decade See Again Using The Second Sight Argus II

Imagine you have a regenerative eye disease that slowly took your eyesight over time, leaving you completely blind before your 60th birthday. That’s what ha... Read More...

Scientists Develop New Process To X-Ray The Insides Of Bacteria

X-rays have allowed us to take quick snapshots inside our bodies for a long time now. For bacteria, though, the process isn’t quite as simple, often requiri... Read More...

These Glasses Can Turn Into Tinted Sunglasses With The Flick Of A Switch

Someday, you can own a pair of glasses that can turn into sunglasses at the flick a switch. And, no, it doesn’t involve tinted lenses folding down like they... Read More...

Scientists Invent A Way To Unboil Eggs In Five Minutes

Science is awesome, letting us build useful things like exoskeletons with superhuman strength, tractor beams, and artificial human brains. This time around,... Read More...

iChip Allows Scientists To Discover First New Antibiotic In 25 Years

Before Teixobactin, an experimental antibiotic recently found by scientists, it’s been 25 years since a new antibiotic has been discovered. That drought end... Read More...

Scientists Are Using Poisonous Mushrooms To Produce Drugs Without Side Effects

Many drugs can be very effective against life-threatening diseases. Many of those same drugs, however, carry side-effects that make a lot of patients wary o... Read More...

Google Made A Cloud Service For Storing And Processing Millions Of Human Genomes

You already trust Google to store your emails on Gmail, your daily schedule on Calendar, and your personal files on Drive. Might as well trust it with your... Read More...

Scientists Build Tractor Beam 100x More Powerful Than Others Before It

In the future, we can visit other planets and beam up their inhabitants into our spaceships. Well, if we can make spaceships that travel that deep into spa... Read More...

New Medicine Extracted From Blushwood Fruits Can Destroy Cancerous Tumors

(image from The Australian)A new drug is showing great promise in the fight against cancer.Called EBC-46, the compound is extracted from the fruit o... Read More...

This Spray-On Bandage Will Emit Light To Signal Healing

Putting a Bacon Band-Aid or some other bandage on an open wound is a great way to keep it covered up from potential agents of infection. But it’s no help w... Read More...

Gene Mutation Lets This Worm Eat All The Sugar It Wants And Not Gain Weight

Imagine: eating all the Snickers, Reese’s, and M&Ms you want without ever gaining weight. Heck, you can eat this entire Gummi Chandelier and you’ll sti... Read More...

This Family Tree Charts How Dinosaurs Turned Into Modern Birds

A study recently published in the journal Current Biology included the above family tree, which shows the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and modern bir... Read More...

Scientists Invent Recyclable Lithium-Ion Batteries That Work At 99% Potency Post-Recycling

A team of researchers from Uppsala University is claiming to have found a new method for producing lithium-ion batteries that allow them to be easily recycl... Read More...

Rochester Cloak Uses Ordinary Lenses To Make Things Appear Invisible

Invisibility cloaks? Not going to happen for a long time. Using lenses to make your presence undetectable, though, is something many people have pulled of... Read More...

Harvard Offers Free Soft Robotics Toolkit For Building Your Own Bio-Mimicking Robot Army

If you’ve already come to terms with a future filled with robots that look like the hunks of steel they’ve always been depicted in the movies, you’ll probab... Read More...

10 Coolest, Funkiest, Most Interesting Things We Saw At Maker Faire NY Over The Weekend

Self-described as “the greatest show and tell on Earth,” (and we agree with that statement) Maker Faire returned to New York this past weekend, bringing wi... Read More...

Thinklabs One Digital Stethoscope Can Amplify Body Sounds Upto 100 Times

The Thinklabs One is a digital stethoscope with all its components installed on the compact chestpiece. To use, simply plug in your favorite headphones to t... Read More...

This Is How You Put A Legit Mini Museum On Your Desk

The Mini Museum is a desktop display case that holds some of the most interesting specimen artifacts in the world. And you can have it sitting right on you... Read More...

Einstein’s Manuscript For The Theory Of Relativity On Display

First published in 1916, Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity remains a groundbreaking landmark in modern Physics. Now, the original manuscript de... Read More...