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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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 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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...