Soon We Could Have Displays and Windows That Change Colour with the Flick of a Switch
All thanks to the same kinds of light-scattering nanoparticles unwittingly used by Medieval artisans.
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All thanks to the same kinds of light-scattering nanoparticles unwittingly used by Medieval artisans.
Whip out your telescopes if you want a good look at the gherkin-looking thing.
Godo thing it was prprly chequed over before publishng.
The process is a bit like a teeny tiny blind person’s finger being used to read Braille.
Basic physics suggests that electrons are essentially immortal.
You need bacteria to help you digest your food and go about your day. It turns out that plants have their own version of this, and one weed is driving out the competition
As global temperatures rise, many animal species are edging toward the poles and even climbing mountains to stay within their preferred temperature ranges.
Do you like driving cars, the way World War I turned out, and dislike Nazi collaboration? If your answer to all three questions is “yes,” then Eugene Houdry is your kind of guy.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has boldly gone where no robotic probe has gone before.
We all know that male seahorses are the ones who bear the young, but how does the female get her eggs in there?
And the blood tests can easily be performed in virtually any setting.
You know, the exact technologies that could lead to the robopocalypse.
If you’ve had your fill of depressing predictions for the future, here’s one that is both fascinating and as innocuous as they come
Tens of thousands of wildfires ravaged Indonesia in September and October. A sizeable portion of these blazes was smouldering subterranean peat fires, which sent toxic gas and particulate matter into the atmosphere.
It looks like an alien parasite come to invade our brains, but the truly bizarre creature pictured above is one of the first fossils of a mud dragon ever discovered, and it could help scientists answer some big evolutionary questions.
This machine that shoots a blast of beads at a metal target is actually an analogue for the early universe. Read More >>
