Neuroscientists are Still Confused About #TheDress
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In a remote stretch of the Pacific Ocean south-east of New Zealand, the broken remains of space stations and robotic freighters litter the ocean floor, four kilometres below the waves.
Syntactic foam could completely change how military craft are design.
Since the Ebola outbreak last year, researchers feared that the virus had been able to evolve at a more rapidly. Now, analysis reveals that it mutated at a perfectly normal rate alleviating those fears.
Everyone's heard of people who implant magnets or RFID chips into their hands, but these are a different story entirely. These are the kind of hacks that could cripple you if they go wrong.
Like-minded people like to hang out together across many cultures. Same with baboons. But should we buck that trend?
Take a journey to the core of the sun to learn more about our solar system's source of light.
The European Space Agency’s satellite captured before and after images of the area hit by the quake, showing the change.
This chamber might not look empty—but in fact it’s missing something that usually permeates every space on Earth: magnetic fields. And it will help physicists in the quest for a unifying Theory of Everything.
The strange B meson is certainly a lot less famous than the Higgs boson, but it also has an important role to play in the Standard Model of particle physics.
Viruses have always hidden in parts of our bodies you’d never expect. In fact, we’re all walking virus reservoirs. It's not just rare diseases like Ebola either.
Atmospheric scientist Joseph Dwyer's accident flight into a thunderstorm led him in a direction he never expected
Bistro in Vitro imagines three-course meals made entirely of synthetic nosh.
You’ve probably heard by now that sitting is bad for you, but do you know why?
This new super-small battery could finally put power supplies on the chip—and tiny computational systems anywhere you can imagine.
The image in question is the ancestor of Japanese tentacle porn, yet the octopus is clearly not having that much fun buried in the women's genitalia.
