Inside the Science of Sharing Rare Blood
We all know that rare blood types exist in the world, but have you ever wondered what it's like to donate if you have one?
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We all know that rare blood types exist in the world, but have you ever wondered what it's like to donate if you have one?
Considering the ISS has six living, breathing, excreting human beings living in close proximity, some smells could get to be a major problem.
The plume allows scientists to understand how injecting additives or surfactants into the oil can change the way it behaves underwater.
This diagram shows that people in vegetative states can still respond to stimuli.
It's an incredible achievement, a world first and one that's been called "more impressive than man walking on the moon."
Hawking takes time out of his rock and roll schedule to talk future tech.
'Rare mutation' actually shared by 99 per cent of Europeans.
Should scientists be allowed to create mutant viruses deadlier than natural ones? The White House waded into this controversy today with a surprising announcement to cut all funding to such studies, pending a thorough review of this risky research.
Jabbing a steel needle into your flesh is not ever going to be fun, per se, but scientists have found a way to make it hurt a lot less.
Lasers? Fun. Slow motion? Beautiful. Shooting things with lasers and recording what happens in slow motion? That'll be what happens in this beautiful video.
We're currently overdue for a switcheroo and scientists now say it could happen in as little as 100 years
High-tech materials technology that takes design cues from bacon.
It is the size of a jet engine, power aeroplanes, spaceships, and cities—and they say it will be operative in only 10 years.
Here's a startling fact: Doctors sometimes prescribe treatment just to cover their own backs.
Locusts, beetles, mealworms and more: are they the answer to feeding ever more humans and livestock that will inhabit the planet?
The experiment is being performed to discover the mass of a neutrino, something that has eluded physicists for years.
