In a recent episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Bill Gates challenged Jimmy Fallon to drink a glass of poop water that was processed through the Omniprocessor, a machine that turns sewer sludge into regular, clean drinking water. To learn more about the Omniprocessor, you can see the machine in action at this […]
From The University of Rochester: This demonstration of superhydrophobic metal uses materials created in the lab of Chunlei Guo, professor of optics at the University of Rochester. The material is made by processing metal with high intensity lasers, creating micro and nano structures that make the surface highly water repellent. And here’s a more detailed […]
Want a girlfriend or boyfriend, but don’t want to put in the time or effort or actually have a living person in your life? We have an app for that! It is called Invisible Girlfriend and Invisible Boyfriendย and it does exactly what the name seems to imply. It creates a virtual partner for you to […]
Here’s some of the things that will happen to your body this year. Thanks to the World Science Festival for the enlightenment! [Source: World Science Festival]
If the Kool-Aid man would exist in reality, would he have the necessary power to break through a brick wall by launching himself through it? Watch as Jake Roper from VSauce explores the possibility. [Vsauce3]
The European Space Agency plans to sync two satellites to create a single, virtual telescope. If it works, it could mean hugely increased telescopic power. The ESA Proba-3 project, scheduled for launch in 2018, is designed to not only carry out a practical task (studying our Sun in greater detail) but to test a principle: […]
They explode when you touch them. Even a millionth of a gram can kill you. They can even disable you with their horrifying smell. SciShow introduces you to give of the most dangerous chemicals in the world. [SciShow]
Using X-ray equipment that allowed them to watch the animals move through a bed of dry sand, Georgia Tech researchers have studied how the shovel-nosed snake and sandfish lizard use their unique body plans to swim through sand. Information provided by the research could help explain how evolutionary pressures have affected body shape in sand-dwelling […]