Tag: Science
According to The Independent, a small group of researchers at Sun Yat-Sen University have finally tracked down the ever-elusive cure for pounding headaches, seemingly nonstop vomiting and profuse sweating after a night of drinking alcohol. While the only guaranteed way to avoid a hangover is to properly hydrate before drinking, there are some good news! Scientists believe that […]
Poop power is finally upon us, as researchers from Stanford University have developed a battery that gathers electricity from the bacteria that grows on feces. It’s yet enough to power the world–the device can generate just 30 percent of the potential energy found in shit–but according to its developers, it could at least help power […]
The happy father in the photo above likely has tiny little itty bitty testicles. His lil’ baby balls are probably so small he can hardly see them when he showers. How do we know? Because he looks empathetic, nurturing, and involved in his daughter’s life–all qualities that decrease when a man has great big cojones, […]
Remember the rodent mind meld we told you about earlier this year, in which researchers used one rat’s brain to control another rat’s movements? A group of scientists at the University of Washington just upped the ante, using a human brain to control… another human brain. The gist of it is this: Rajesh Rao sat on one […]
To create the mystifying marbled circles you see above, artist John Sabraw and environmental engineer Guy Riefler looked to pollution. Riefler collected river water that had been tainted with iron by coal mining near Athens, Ohio, then using it as pigment for Sabraw to use in paint. “I was coming back from rivers with stained socks,” […]
Back in 1977, a team of hip NASA scientists led by astrophysicist Carl Sagan produced two gold-plated copper records featuring a compendium of sounds, images, and illustrations from planet Earth. The 12-inch time capsules were loaded onto twin Voyager spacecraft then launched into space with the hopes that alien life would find the records and […]
Q: What’s scarier than an animation designed to employ the uncanny valley to terrifying effect? A robotic face designed to interpret the electrical signals given off by slime mold as human emotion. And also it’s wearing a little top hat and scarf, for some reason? Watch the video, replete with a soundtrack of dissonant electronic […]
Underneath the bright blue mass of geometric crystals you see above is something much more discomfiting: a dead bee, one of many victims of the plague of potentially chemically-caused bee deaths of recent years. Bioartist Simon Park–the guy behind this smartphone bacteria art–created Bee-Jewelled, the clumsily named but wonderfully executed piece, by dousing the insect carcasses in […]
As the summer draws to a mild and enjoyable end, a new scientific development in the treatment and overall understanding of sunburns has emerged. Researchers have found that TRPV4 — a particular molecule present throughout our skin cells — is not only completely responsible for much of the pain we associate with bothersome, itchy, red sunburns, but is also quite […]
Okay, let’s try to get through this together. A few months ago, a bunch of researchers from London’s King’s College grew a full set of “human/mouse” hybrid teeth using human stem cells from gum tissue and mouse kidneys. At the time, I called it the “most unnerving study ever.” Well, because science hates us all […]
