The World's First Handheld DNA Sequencer is a Genetics Lab In a Box
It means doctors, vets, and health officials will be able to easily diagnose viral infections in the field, rather than relying on time consuming lab work.
While the bread and butter of Gizmodo UK is in the bits and bytes of technology, we have a lot of fun in the off-topic areas, with many of the stories being filed in the WTF category. Bookmark this page for the sillier stories, from ridiculous examples of body-art, to... sausages made of skittles?
It means doctors, vets, and health officials will be able to easily diagnose viral infections in the field, rather than relying on time consuming lab work.
Discoveries like this are helping to battle food allergies that have been increasingly and mysteriously on the rise in the last few decades.
A team of researchers has discovered over 500 bubbling methane vents just off the east coast of the US that are releasing the gas, too.
Growing nerve tissue and organs is a sci-fi dream. One pioneering researcher has made this dream a reality.
It's a technique called Magnet-optical trapping, and it uses lasers to cool down molecules and hold them in place with a vacuum chamber.
Tech to detect the drugs exists, but it's a bit clumsy to use. Nail polish, though, is just perfect.
It's still early days, but this could prove vital if scientists can do more complex organs inside a human.
It's a way of allowing robots to learn new things without having to have a human teach them how to do it first.
Who'd have thought hashtags would be useful to science?
Can you imagine having a robot as your supervisor? A lot of people seem willing to accept it.
Implanted electrodes can actually be used to control the flight of moths. That's scary and cool at the same time.
Blackfish exposes some of the behind-the-scenes practices at SeaWorld that very few people knew about. If you haven't seen it, you probably should.
All thanks to hard, irrefutable, science.
It's the first time it's been done at such a low voltage.
The research is still in its early stages so, for now, ketchup still needs its beauty sleep.
People that know about quantum mechanics tend to talk about it very breezily, leaving us mortals behind. Be left behind no longer, by watching this video.
