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...LATEST
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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...LATEST
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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...LATEST
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...GEAR
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...LATEST
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...GADGETS
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...GADGETS
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,...LATEST
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....STYLE
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...LATEST
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...LATEST
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...LATEST
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...WEB
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...LATEST
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,...LATEST
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...LATEST
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...LATEST
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...LATEST
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...GADGETS
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,...LATEST
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...WEB
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...GADGETS
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,...GADGETS
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...LATEST