A Spoonful of This New Material Can Suck-Up a Whole Roomful of Oxygen
Say goodbye to bulky oxygen tanks.
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Say goodbye to bulky oxygen tanks.
Unsurprisingly this is from Japan. Apparently the Japanese like their ice to be perfectly spherical.
NASA is pursuing future cosmic exploration with some rather unexpected whimsy. Occasionally fantastical but always backed by concrete science, here are 10 of the most awesomely strange projects NASA's scientists are cooking up.
It's not really invisible, but at certain angles it disappears from view.
A significant portion of underwater exploration is done in 2D, but that could soon change thanks to the recent installation of a revolutionary new scientific camera rig. We'll never look at the ocean's depths the same way again.
A Princeton engineer has found a cheap new way of making LEDs brighter, more efficient, and five times as clear. It even makes them last longer.
Scientists are using anthrax to cure cancer. Effectively fighting a deadly disease that has killed millions with... a deadly disease that has killed millions.
What's the closest thing we could make a lightsaber in the real world? Let's look at the options.
This is Gary Dryfoos demonstrating his Ig Nobel 2014 nomination: use bacon "to stop uncontrollable, life-threatening nosebleeds".
Scientist earlier this year claiming to have found direct evidence of the Big Bang may need to check their numbers again.
As it turns out, Positron is not a Decepticon. Who knew?
With a circumference of 80-100km, The Future Circular Collider is going to be triple the size of the LHC.
Sadly the sci-fi dream of life on Mars will almost certainly never come to be. That doesn't mean Earth is the only place in the solar system capable of sustaining life.
It's a joke prize for wasting everyone's time.
Hitchcock was great for manipulating his audience, and that comes in handy for neuroscientists, who used one of his films to measure patients' consciousness.
For instance, you might have heard that the iPhone comes bearing "ion-strengthed glass," but what does that actually mean?
