The Future Will Be Full of Mushroom Batteries
The portobello mushroom: Great with grilled onions and ketchup, sure, but this fungus can do a lot more than console vegetarians at barbecues.
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The portobello mushroom: Great with grilled onions and ketchup, sure, but this fungus can do a lot more than console vegetarians at barbecues.
Hormone surges at puberty trigger a lot of physical changes in both men and women, morphing child-bodies into adult forms. Genitals, hips, and muscle mass change, obviously–but so do faces.
New research reckons humans are pretty shoddy at detecting doctored images.
It looks like a vivid red carnation, but this flower is actually the result of mixing simple organic chemicals. It measures just 10 microns across and to three hours to come into creation. Read more >>
Commuting affects your mental health, your physical health, and even the way you think about other people. And these changes are more profound than you might think.
Imagine electrical circuits that you could print off and use for a few hours before they melted away and stop functioning or changed their function.
For killer pain, a killer fish might be the solution.
The machine produces shapes solutions with the same consistency as hand sanitiser.
Keep your eyes on the tides in the wake of this week's much-photographed lunar event.
Who says scientists can’t be creative? Check out all the winner from this year's Agar Art competition, where researchers battle it out by creating artwork in a Petri dish. See more >>
Screw you, cynical physicists.
That's an unfortunate portmanteau of the words 'antenna' and 'rectifier diode', for the record.
Keeping tabs on ex partners stops the social stalkers from moving on, according to new research.
It may look like a sci-fi space scene or a Fear and Loathing outtake, but this image, which shows a a zebrafish larva infected with meningitis, could help researchers develop new treatments for the disease. Read more >>
All the big facts about the big discovery in one place.
If successful it could pave the way for saving the sight of hundreds of thousands of UK residents.
