Ingenious New Camera Can Read Closed Books
Finally something that can work out what my wife is thinking.
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Finally something that can work out what my wife is thinking.
Breathalysers and rehabilitation result in a dramatic decrease in DUIs even after devices are removed, says study.
MXene underpants set to be Christmas 2018's big thing.
That makes it the oldest surviving manuscript from the pre-Colombian era.
Scientists are hoping to tweak the amphibian’s evolutionary development by bulking up their bods with small doses of the very thing that’s killing them.
Secretly gloating over the misfortunes of others (a.k.a. schadenfreude) might not be noble, but it’s certainly universal. Neuroscientists may have just identified the brain cells associated with that feeling.
And yet, it still can’t stop me from eating this piece of floor candy! Who’s in charge now, Science?
This particular class of insecticides has also been linked to colony collapse disorder, a mysterious phenomenon in which the majority of worker bees suddenly abandon the hive.
"You cannot restore wilderness. Once it is gone...these ecosystems are gone."
By building a gigantic petri dish, researchers have produced an incredible visualisation showing bacteria as it mutates to become resistant to drugs. Read more >>
Throw some dye into milk, add a drop of soap and suddenly the whole thing turns into a psychedelic mess of shapes and colours. Read more >>
NASA’s asteroid-skimming spacecraft just blasted off into space without a hitch, completing the first step in a seven-year journey.
Plucking their webs helps semi-blind spiders to sense prey and mates, as well as test their structure's strength.
What have we done to anger you, space gods?
Terzan 5 could help us piece together our cosmic origin story.
Life on Mars 67P?
