The University of Michigan recently released a new smartphone app that’s designed to help you do self-examinations for skin cancer. The free app, called UMSkinCheck, works by taking 23 (naked) pictures of yourself and analyzing them for moles and legions. The app will also have useful information and tools associated with skin cancer. I wonder […]
What is this world coming to when a person is assaulted because someone took offence to their medical prosthetic? That is essentially what happened when Dr. Steve Mann from Toronto, Ontario was on vacation with his family. Dr. Mann uses a form of “wearable computing” known as an Eye Glass – a prosthetic Augmediated Reality […]
Dark matter has been something that astrophysicists have postulated about for some time – matter we cannot see but must exist for things to make sense in the universe. A new technique has been demonstrated in a paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that indicates that entirely starless galaxies conclusively […]
A song of ice and statistics… [Via TDWG]
Chronostasis (from Greek ??????, chrónos, “time” and ?????? “standing”) is the illusion in which the first impression following a saccade (quick eye movement) appears to be extended in time. The most well-known version of this illusion is the stopped-clock illusion, where the first movement of the second hand of an analog clock, following the viewer’s […]
The ‘Amazing Spiderman’ definitely has some unique tricks and abilities, but do any of them stand up to scientific realities? We’ll take a look at how some of Spiderman’s main attributes could legitimately happen, while others…not so much! [AsapSCIENCE]
Although the moon has remained largely unchanged during human history, our understanding of it and how it has evolved over time has evolved dramatically. Thanks to new measurements, we have new and unprecedented views of its surface, along with new insight into how it and other rocky planets in our solar system came to look […]
3,000-year-old “bog bodies”, dug up over a decade ago in Scotland, have recently been found to be composed of six different people’s body parts. Not so original, were you Dr. Frankenstein? It seems that the explanation of why these bodies were pieced together will forever be lost in time. But the details that have been […]