[Photo credit: Bill & Mark Bell] Biofuel: a hot topic for doctors seeking to implant pacemakers and other life-saving devices inside the body without the need for batteries that would need to be changed every couple of years, or months, or even week. Now researchers at Case Western Reserve University have possibly found the answer […]
This is the perfect valentine for that Nerdy person in your life. What exactly is the formal definition for Nerdalicious? It is “the definition of a nerd who is the extreme in his area of nerdology, but is extremely and uncannily attractive nonetheless”. It has a 3-d panel that spells out Nerd using tiles from […]
Photo credit A team of scientists using data from the European Southern Observatory, have determined there is a potentially Earth-like planet in a nearby solar system, only 22 light years away, but it’s at least 4.5 times the mass of Earth! In addition to the public data from the European Southern Observatory, they were incorporating […]
A couple in Florida got a real surprise this week when their expecting mama cat gave birth to a live, two-faced kitten. Of course, there was no other choice than to name him Harvey Dent, after the Batman villain known for his double features. Called a “Janus cat” among veterinary circles, the term was derived […]
Researchers at UC Berkeley have shown its possible to decipher the words that a brain is thinking about. That could theoretically make it possible for a patient in a coma to communicate, though that’s a long way off. The research follows previous studies into the physical effects of thought. It had already been shown that […]
The original clone Dolly, preserved forever at the National Museum of Scotland. Photo Credit: Shelley Bernstein I’m sure we all remember Dolly, the world’s first successfully cloned mammal, a lovely little sheep in Edinburgh 16 years ago. Well, from the makers of Dolly, comes a whole new epic: Brain Tissue. The cloning of Dolly spurred […]
THE CITY DARK chronicles the disappearance of darkness. When filmmaker Ian Cheney moves to New York City and discovers skies almost completely devoid of stars, a simple question — what do we lose, when we lost the night? — spawns a journey to America’s brightest and darkest corners. Astronomers, cancer researchers, ecologists and philosophers provide […]
A new breakthrough in the wonderful world of forced infertility has Sonic Waves reducing the sperm count of men. The only problem is that it is not known if this technique could be reversed so it is still in the works. io9 reports: Scientists from the University of North Carolina say a non-oral form of […]