New data sent back by the Cassini spacecraft is hinting at the possible existence of methane-based lifeforms on Saturn’s moon Titan. The data received by scientists at NASA show that for some unknown reason, hydrogen and organic molecules are disappearing at the moon’s surface. The reason could be alien microbes breathing the gas like we breathe air.
Check out this mechanical fish that’s guiding a shoal of actual fish across a pool. The fish was designed by New York University’s Poly’s Dynamical Systems Laboratory, and the developers say that it could one day be used to guide real fish away from man-made ecological disasters.
Under certain reasons, sound waves can generate visible light. Find out which circumstances, explore the debate about how the phenomenon works, and learn how to make your own sonoluminescence generator. The first instances of sonoluminescence were documented in the mid-nineteen-thirties, when scientists experimenting with naval sonar noticed that sound waves, when traveling through water, could [...]
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have placed nanowires inside rats that have successfully converted the animals breaths and heartbeats into electricity. These nanowire generators could one day lead to battery-free nano-scale medical implants and sensors powered by the body itself.
Scientists may be closing in on the age-old goal of finding a cure for the common cold, and other forms of influenza. Scientists at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York have discovered a method of stopping the spread of influenza viruses by stopping the genetic process by which the virus replicates itself. They can essentially flip a switch that stops the virus RNA in its tracks.
Scientists are finding success recently in getting DNA to mimic non-biological circuits and form logic gates, the stuff from which all computers are made. DNA-based logic gates that could some day carry out calculations inside our bodies and can be programmed to target diseases as they arise. “The biocomputer would sense biomarkers and immediately react [...]
A giant gaping hole in the ground has suddenly opened up in the middle of the city street intersection of Ciudad de Guatemala. Looking at the picture would give anyone the creeps, like looking down straight into hell. We can’t see these pictures without getting vertigo. A sinkhole is a natural depression caused by the [...]
What you see below is the K Cooling Tower at the Savannah River Site, a giant nuclear cooling tower that’s been sitting unused since the end of the Cold War. It costs taxpayer money to maintain, and so it makes sense to just demolish this useless relic. But why wait so long to demolish this [...]
Anthony Le, 25, has been a fan of Iron Man since he was a kid, but when he heard that the comic-book superhero was hitting the big screen in 2008, he was inspired to build his own Iron Man suit.
A British scientist has become the first human being to contract a computer virus.
Shrek Forever After still proves that all 3D movies turns to gold because it doesn’t shatter the charts as strongly as many expectation.
Nuclear bomb testing in the 1950s has resulted in an unexpected occurrence: it has turned the teeth of all humans on the planet radioactive. Researchers discovered this phenomenon while trying to determine the age of deceased individuals. They have found that all our teeth are, in fact, radioactive clocks. Above ground nuclear tests in the [...]
Genomic science has hugely enhanced our understanding of the biological world. It is permitting researchers to “read” the genetic code of organisms from all branches of life by sequencing the four letters that build up DNA. Sequencing genomes has now become routine, giving rise to thousands of genomes in the public databases. In one of [...]
Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first synthetic living cell.The researchers constructed a bacterium’s “genetic software” and transplanted it into a host cell.
Researchers at Duke University, funded by Darpa, have developed a biosensor that has the ability to know if you’re sick with a virus infection even before your first sneeze. The sensor detects changes in gene expression that occur in people exposed to viruses like the common cold, flu, or the respiratory syncytial virus. This approach [...]
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