Check Out all the Alien Species Discovered by Deep Sea Vehicle Alvin
America's venerable oceanic exploration sub, the newly-renovated DSV Alvin, continues to uncover scores of deep sea life forms that science has never even seen.
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America's venerable oceanic exploration sub, the newly-renovated DSV Alvin, continues to uncover scores of deep sea life forms that science has never even seen.
Not as much as you think. All you need is a mere 1.5 gigabytes to fit your entire genetic code.
We'd rather hurt ourselves than be left alone with just our tedious thoughts for company.
3G, NFC, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are all well and good, but there's perhaps an even geekier wireless protocol in town.
Plants respond to caterpillars eating them, and what's more, they will even make the plants put up additional defences, researchers have found.
Have you been listening to SOMETHING LOUD? If so, you might have a ringing in your ears—but what, exactly, causes it?
The new genetically-engineered virus is based on H1N1, which killed an estimated 500,000 people just five years ago.
Remember that 84-year-old pitch drop experiment? Well, finally, it's been given a modern overhaul.
You can tank your immune system for keeping trillions of nasty pathogens from ruining you. Why not start off my understanding how it works?
One of these paintings is by Claude Monet. The other is a microscopic replica. Can you tell which is which?
There's a long held myth that urine is sterile: it may not be as pure as we thought.
Some people fear that Moore's Law will eventually become redundant, but carbon nanotubes are coming to the rescue.
We've been to the moon but we still haven't discovered everything on our own planet yet.
In this video, Minute Physics imagines the perfect pair of eyes to establish if physics could ever actually allow Legolas to see what's claimed in the book.
This is not your typical electron microscope snowflake photo, usually delicate and beautiful.
This camera from Edinburgh's Heriot Watt University captures video so fast that you can actually watch individual photons move across a room.
