High tech sniper rifle can tag victims and helps shoot around corners
Photo: Tracking Point Guns today are looking more and more like they're from a video game or something. Take TrackingPoint's...
Ballistic test on Kevlar shows what could happen to the ISS from space debris impacts
We've mentioned on numerous occasions the growing problem of space debris and voiced our concerns that, if left unchecked, the thousands of metal...
This sweet shrew looks like a mouse but is more related to elephants
Photo: California Academy of Sciences A new mammalian species has been discovered among the ancient volcanic formation in Namibia that...
The elephant bird: the largest bird to have ever lived
Restoration of the famous elephant bird. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Once one of Madagascar's crown inhabitants, the elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus)...
Americans are convinced of global warming by changing temperatures, not by climate scientists
The Stanford News Service recently made an interview with Jon Krosnick, a Stanford professor of communication and of political science who conducts...
Foldscope – the origami microscope that aims to carry science in every pocket
The Foldscope is one of those innovative instruments that could potentially turn science communication and education en mass upside down....
Super-stretchable yarn made from graphene could change the industry
Strong, stretchable fibers made of graphene oxide can be knotted like yarn (credit: Terrones group/Penn State) Chemical researchers at Penn...
Germany produces more than half its energy from solar
Photo: greenbag.com Germany has reached a new renewable energy milestone recently after the country announced that on a given day...
X-rays image atoms during chemical reactions for the first time
Since its advent some 100 years ago, crystallography has become one of the most important processes in chemical research and...
Dr. Oz Admits ‘Miracle’ Diet Products He Advocates Are Pseudoscience
A senate panel interviewed Dr. Mehmet Oz on Tuesday regarding his claims of various ‘miracle’ weight loss cures; as a...
Bees build mental maps to get home
When I was a kid, I asked, like many others, how do bees know how to make their way back...
Will the world’s strongest brakes stop the Bloodhound after it tops the 1,000MPH land record?
Bloodhound SSC 1,000 mph land speed record car The current world land speed record stands at 763.035 mph, as set...
The future’s children of the stars will forget about Earth, but it’s all for the better
Artist impression of a spacecraft that might help mankind colonize other planets. Photo: Thinkstock If it weren't for man's innate...
Ant biomechanics might inspire the super robots of the future
An electron microscope shows the neck region of the Allegheny mound ant. Ohio State University Ants are one of the...
Why octupus arms never get entangled
Photo: c4dcafe.com Roboticists and mechanical engineers hold octopuses to great respect and admiration because of their many skills, like great...
3D Bioprinted liver-inspired device traps toxins and detoxifies blood
Photo: UCSD Inspired by the healing properties of the human liver, researchers at University of California, San Diego created a...
Silly Putty ingredient helps improve batteries
Photo: momfabfun.com When you think about Silly Putty toys, the last thing that comes to mind is high-tech. A group...
Moving snails at least 20m away reverses homing instinct
Photo: scribol.com For the casual nature enthusiasts, snails are a infinite source of joy whenever people come across them. People...
Mice with multiple sclerosis walk and run again after human stem cell treatment
In a feat that surprised even the scientists who made the experiment, mice disabled by a condition similar to multiple sclerosis...
Who’s got the most efficient muscle engine : the tuna or the grey whale?
Photo: Wikimedia Commons The humongous grey whale and the skipjack tuna, though of contradicting sizes, both employ similar propelling mechanisms...
Russia will deny the US access to the ISS come 2020 over Ukraine sactions
Photo: AP I've expressed my fears that something like this might happen a few weeks ago when the first US...
Brawls for colony domination transforms winning worker ants into queens without DNA changes
Harpegnathos saltator ants undergo dramatic physiological changes triggered by heightened dopamine levels, following ascension of the colony's social ladder. It's...
Lucid dreaming easily triggered by zapping the brain at 40 Hz
One of the most common experience people choose to have when lucid dreaming is flying - can you blame them?...
Desert spider flic-flacs through the sand like a gymnast
The Moroccan flic-flac spider, Cebrennus rechenbergi. Image credit: Ingo Rechenberg. A most peculiar spider has been discovered by entomologists in...
Electro-magnetic helmet proves great benefits for fighting depression
Photo: Copenhagen University Danish researchers have developed a special helmet that shoots electro-magnetic waves in target brain regions and treats...
Protein Dracula: transferring young mice blood to older mice reverses aging
This Sunday a trio of landmark studies were published each discussing an aspect of a wider picture: reversing aging in the muscles...
Bioplastic made from shrimp shell could help curb plastic pollution
The Wyss Institute researchers molded a series of chess pieces made of their chitosan bioplastic, demonstrating a new way towards...
Tree rings reveal worst droughts in the West’s history happened during Christopher Columbus’ lifetime
Professor Bekker and a student extract a core sample from a dead tree in Provo canyon. (C) BYU Modern climate...
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Mars could become colonized by stowaway Earthling tiny space travelers
The European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF) attached to the Columbus module of the International Space Station during orbital flight. Image...
New circuitboard is 9,000 times faster and more energy efficient at simulating the human brain than PC
The Neurogrid circuit board can simulate orders of magnitude more neurons and synapses than other brain mimics on the power...
Small mite is world’s fastest land animal, relative to size
Usain Bolt of the animal kingdom - Paratarsotomus macropalpis. Photo: FASEB Journal Cheetahs are the world's fastest land animals in...
Bionic prosthetic allows disabled to run, climb and even dance – watch this TED talk!
Hugh Herr, head of the Lab's Biomechatronics research group, spoke at TED 2014 on March 19 about his group's work...
Google Earth used to track uncontacted Amazonian tribe
An Amazonian isolated village, with natives in the background. Some of them can be seen with their bows readied to...
Study of HIV evolution shows the virus is adapting to human hosts
Illustration of HIV virus. Photo: FDA One of the most threatening modern pandemics, HIV/AIDS, has been thoroughly studied in the...
Taking a walk encourages creativity more than sitting
Photo: flickr If you've ever read the biographies of some of the world's greatest thinkers, you may have noticed that...
Environmental rule regulating mercury emissions saves lives (and $90 billion)
Photo: Wikicommons Can you put a cost on pollution? Policy makers, not matter how some may deny it, are more...
The Chameleon vine: the only plant that morphs host plants near it
The animal kingdom is full of cons - shapeshifter who have learned that to survive, they need look different or...
Glass molecules jam to form fractal wells
Water is liquid, air is gaseous, but glass? For years at end, glass has perplexed scholars intending on fixing it...
Legalizing marijuana doesn’t encourage consumption among teens
A common concern among the general public, parents especially, is that once a draft calling for legalizing marijuana goes through,...
Blood from world’s oldest woman tells us why life reaches its limits
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, aged 115. Photo: wikia.com No matter how much some would like to avoid this prospect, death is...
3D printer used to build 10 homes in one day in China
Photo: Winsun New Materials Say what you will, but the Chinese are clearly the fastest builders in the world, though...
Making graphene in a kitchen blender
A team led by Jonathan Coleman at Trinity College Dublin reports they've patented a technique that can easily produce large quantities...
Claws of meanest crustacean inspire supermaterial design
The punching mantis shrimp is one of the meanest sea dweller. Photo: Carlos Puma As the night covers the tropics,...
Condensing towers could make water from thin air in the driest places on Earth
Artist impression of how two such tower might look like in a desert community. Photo: Architecture and Vision The Namib...
Monkeys can do math, study proves
Photo: PNAS It's long been supposed that monkeys are capable of mental arithmetics, but it was only recently that this...
Vitamin B may have come from space – what does this mean for origin of life?
Residue from a laboratory experiment simulating the conditions of interstellar space. The residue contained vitamin B3 (and related compounds) and...
China just admitted 20% of its farmland is polluted
The Chinese government sort of took everyone by surprise after it made a most unaccustomed statement; it admitted the country...
Sleep aids and anxiety pills can kill
Photo: prevention.com There's no secret prescriptions drugs have taken off in the past few decades, amounting to a multi-billion dollar...
Artists have unique brain structure
Photo: NeuroImage A common brain myth is that creative people, like artists, use their right part of the brain more,...
Shy children often grow to be anxious adults
Photo: telegraph.co.uk A team of development psychologists who have been following children's temperament since they were babies until early adulthood...