Humans Have Been Able to Perceive Infrared Light This Whole Time
Some scientists found that Human eyes do indeed perceive infrared light, but not they same way they perceive ordinary colours. It's weirder than that.
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Some scientists found that Human eyes do indeed perceive infrared light, but not they same way they perceive ordinary colours. It's weirder than that.
Naloxone can reverse an otherwise fatal heroin overdose within minutes, and Carrie Arnold meets the doctors who put this remarkable drug in the hands of people and saved thousands of lives.
For the first time in history, a theory of what doesn't exist is successfully predicting what does.
Feeling intellectual? Then you'll delight in the fact that Nature has made all of its archived scientific papers free to read, though sadly you can't print them out.
Physicists at the University of Warwick created a new hard-to-eat pasta shape they call anelloni to demonstrate the complicated formations ring-shaped polymers can form when they intertwine.
The Bristol Interaction and Graphics group has used ultrasound to render floating 3D shapes in thin air, creating an object that can be seen and felt.
Google has amped up every scientist's favourite diagram to show how elements get used in the real world.
The Philae lander may have had a tough start to its mission to land on the huge 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet, but while we await the lander to revive, the nearby Rosetta mothership has been snapping away – providing us with the first colour image of the comet.
In a proud and noble tradition stretching back a whole two years, NASA yesterday did Black Hole Friday, rather than just flogging a few Apollo mini-figs for 25 per cent off. Here are the best.
We've all heard of invisibility cloaks that can (theoretically) hide objects, but this is whole other ball game.
We know that graphene is super strong, so it should stand to reason that it would be a sensible—if expensive—choice for body armour.
In the quest for marginal gains, how many calories might you be able to burn off by laughing your way through a day?
How do you test a new method for CPR in space without actually going into space? You take flight in a microgravity plane, obviously.
Great news for the people dwelling in buildings using the stuff – bad news for the air conditioning companies.
New research proves why it's a lot harder to spill beer than coffee. A good head of foam on your pint is more helpful than you may think.
Touchscreens are so ubiquitous these days, but many of us probably have no clue how they work. This video explains.
