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Discovery Communications has released an updated version of the company’s iOS client for watching clips and select full episodes from Discovery Channel shows.
Discovery Channel HD version 2.5.1 features an enhanced sharing module which can be experienced throughout the app. Additional Discovery Plus support ha... |
9 May 2013
20:11 GMT |
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It's one thing to build a piece of headgear that can take you to a 3D virtual environment, and another thing entirely to create something that opens your senses to things not normally perceivable to humans.
The latter endeavor was taken up by some students at the Royal College of Arts in London, and it turns o... |
8 May 2013
05:43 GMT |
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The idea of sticking antennas into the human body is an old one, but adding one of those metal rods to someone's flesh or bones never did provide people with the ability to tap into radio waves, unlike in comics.
Still, where there's a will there's a way, and some researchers led by Michael McAlpine, ... |
2 May 2013
10:58 GMT |
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It's been centuries since men and women first started arguing about one very important topic: whether or not childbirth trumps getting hit in one's private parts as far as pain goes.
The video above is intended to shed some light on this topic with the help of science. The issue appears to be far more com... |
27 April 2013
15:01 GMT |
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A man breaking the record for most time spent underwater shows us exactly how wrinkly our hands would get after subjecting them to lying in water for 10 days.
If you have ever spent a lot of time in the bathtub, then you know that your hands tend to get really wrinkled in the process.
HuffPost quotes biologist Cari... |
25 April 2013
08:39 GMT |
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Light emitting diodes are used for a lot of things nowadays, but soon they may be employed in implants, or injectable drugs / methods of treatment or internal nervous system stimulation.
Researchers at the University of Illinois have designed LEDs that are so tiny that they can fit through the eye of a needle.
Tha... |
13 April 2013
04:53 GMT |
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The word “invisibility” is really being used and abused these days. We've even stumbled upon an instance where it is used in relation to sound waves.
That is to say, an invisibility “cloak” has been created which, rather than mask objects from light and sight, cuts them off from all soun... |
1 April 2013
10:34 GMT |
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On May 25, 2008, Roadrunner, a supercomputer built by IBM at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA, was the world's first system that managed a sustained performance of 1 petaflop in the TOP500 Linpack benchmark.
Despite that, however, the supercomputer worked in the background, contributing mu... |
1 April 2013
04:13 GMT |
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We've seen lots of strange things, some weirder than others, but the truly bizarre usually only turn up in fiction.
There are exceptions though, like the Magnetic Putty that likes to eat magnets. Rare-earth magnets to be precise.
Scott Lawson has posted a video on YouTube, in which he shows how a rare-earth ma... |
30 March 2013
05:24 GMT |
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Computers have come a long way since the 19th century, sometimes making huge leaps rather than slowly advancing. Such a huge leap has just been accomplished, or soon will be made based on a new breakthrough in bioengineering.
Bioengineering is the science that seeks to take computing beyond mechanics and into the r... |
29 March 2013
06:00 GMT |
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Residents of the town of Seffner in Florida have come across another sinkhole, after a man was killed by one just last month.
Jeff Bush was sleeping when the cavity opened up underneath his bedroom and he was instantly swallowed up. After an extensive search for his remains in the 20-feet (6-m) wide and 20-feet (6-... |
25 March 2013
03:36 GMT |
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Artificial eyes and pacemakers are just two things that could benefit from a wearable inexhaustible power supply, and the Institute of Physical Chemistry in Poland claims to have invented something of the sort.
Basically, they have created a battery based on the standard zinc-air battery chemistry but modified to wo... |
9 March 2013
06:56 GMT |
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After a large sinkhole swallowed up Seffner, Florida resident Jeffrey Bush just a few days ago, demolition works have been performed to be able to reach Bush and tear down the dangerous structure. He was sitting in his bedroom when the hole opened up under him, as I previously reported. He fell inside and, since he ... |
5 March 2013
10:56 GMT |
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Invisibility is something that humankind has dreamed of achieving for decades, if not centuries, but never did, folklore and legends from all around the world notwithstanding.
Both fantasy and science fiction authors came up with theories, over the years, of how a cloak of invisibility would be possible.
Baile Zha... |
27 February 2013
03:25 GMT |
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The idea of implants is one that science fiction has been going on about for decades, and which has been turned into reality to a certain extent, but which only now is crossing over the boundaries into the fantastical. As is often the case, the first steps towards a new scientific milestone were taken by testing th... |
14 February 2013
10:27 GMT |
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Lots of things are justified by scientists through use of the words “for science” and since some experiments would completely ignore human rights, they use animals instead.
Rats are the most common test subjects, as Researchers at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, have once again shown.
A team led by H... |
12 February 2013
10:51 GMT |
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Google has announced the third edition of the Google Science Fair which challenges kids around the world to come up with interesting experiments and ideas. The competition, organized by Google along with CERN, LEGO, National Geographic and Scientific American, is now underway and kids can submit their ideas. "For th... |
30 January 2013
09:14 GMT |
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The idea of pulling things towards us with our minds or some technological implement, without actually using any physical means, is one that fantasy and Sci-Fi fiction has been playing with for decades, if not centuries.
Science Fiction even popularized the idea of tractor beams to such a point that every series of... |
26 January 2013
04:38 GMT |
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Newton Inc. Apps. has officially launched the digital edition of Newton Science Magazine for the iPhone and iPad. Download the first issue for your Newsstand completely free. The magazine covers today's hottest topics in science, including string theory, iPS cells, the world of animals, and natural phenomena, i... |
18 January 2013
03:31 GMT |
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One of the most interesting features of the upcoming Wasteland 2 is the collaboration between developers inXile and the scientists at Thawacke, designed to ensure that the entire experience is as close to scientific principles as possible.
Sebastian Alvarado, one of the members, has talked to Gamasutra about the inv... |
28 December 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Despite the fact that Wasteland 2 is working with a collective of scientists in order to add realism to the post-apocalyptic experience, they have no plans to eliminate the humor or the speculative elements that were a hallmark of the first game in the series.
Sebastian Alvarado, one of the members of the Thwacke te... |
27 December 2012
05:14 GMT |
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It would take a Grinch to look at this picture of clouds and not see Santa Claus in his sleigh depicted in the formation.
The photo was captured by amateur photographer Julie Wells and published by the Daily Mail.
“I saw the cloud and ran in straight away to fetch my camera.
“Anyone who doubts Santa&#... |
21 December 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Many people are dreading the Apocalypse, scheduled for today, the date allegedly foreseen by the Mayans. Rumor has it they ended their calendar on December 21. The Mayans used three types of calendars, Live Science informs – a religious one, or Tzolk'in, a secular one or Haab', and the one that spark... |
21 December 2012
09:03 GMT |
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The question of who is behind the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci has puzzled scientists for centuries. Italian archaeologists believe they can finally unravel the Mona Lisa mystery, as they found remains belonging to the real Mona Lisa. The model for the painting was Lisa Gherardini, a wealthy socialite of the... |
12 December 2012
08:55 GMT |
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Fisherman Zach Donnell has found a rare specimen of lobster, which has four claws. The man from Wells in Maine caught the lobster in one of his traps.
WCVB writes that Donnell has no intention of selling the lobster. He was planning to take it to a market, but since finding out he stumbled upon a possible once-in-a... |
11 December 2012
05:27 GMT |
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YouTuber Grant Thompson, at NurdRage Science Experiments, put up a solar power clip as one of his “Random Weekend Projects.” The “Solar scorcher,” as he calls it, is a screen made out of an old TV station. He found various applications for the screen, including – but not limited to &nd... |
7 December 2012
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Comedians at Sketch Empire put together a prank in which one of them dresses up like a dinosaur and tries to take people by surprise.
Their "Jurassic Prank" proved widely popular, with almost 1.4 million views in the last three days. The idea is quite different, as you really do not see a lot of people in dinosaur c... |
6 December 2012
11:47 GMT |
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The microscopic close-up of a human intestine with snowflakes added on top of it is intended to bring science closer to the masses in the magic time of Christmas, University of Bristol researchers report. The “labstract” piece of art representing the impression of an intestinal wall resembling a group of... |
6 December 2012
04:38 GMT |
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Sasquatch is a human relative, reports say, as new DNA testing confirms the existence of a species with partly Homo Sapiens, partly primate characteristics.
DNA sequencing has brought about the discovery of human genes when examining the new hybrid species in North America. The testing was performed by DNA Diagnosti... |
28 November 2012
02:58 GMT |
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4D scans performed by Durham University researchers reveal some fascinating footage in which it appears that a fetus is yawning.
The video is part of a trial, in which similar results were recorded in all the cases. 15 mothers took part in the process, being tested four times along their pregnancy, with the latest ... |
22 November 2012
11:10 GMT |
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This year's International Educational Week held in Washington D.C. hosted a novel space experience, both challenging and inspiring for the participant science students. Thursday, over 9,500 young people of the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program participated in a live conversation with Sunita Williams, Comm... |
16 November 2012
03:22 GMT |
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Ever wondered what font you would be, were you to be a font? Neither has any other person not under the influence of mind altering substances. But now that you've read the question you can't not find out.
Luckily, you can, from a website on the internet. Blogthings.com, home of countless other scientific ... |
5 November 2012
18:11 GMT |
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With Halloween upon us, today is perhaps the best day to ask ourselves the years-old question: could zombies really exist? Could certain conditions turn man into a beast that knows no reason, is extremely aggressive, feeds on flesh and is in no way identifiable as human anymore?
The answer is in the video above but,... |
31 October 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Of all the ideas that are born every day, only a scant few ever blossom into something extraordinary. The one that the European Union wants to foster is that of a super laser.
The EU doesn't actually call its project that. One might even say that what it is looking into is not even a “super” laser ... |
29 October 2012
09:36 GMT |
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Some past Nobel prize recipients rejected the award, while some weren't allowed it. Some found themselves in very complicated social and political situations, while others were of the wrong gender. During Adolf Hitler's reign of terror, German Nobel Laureates Richard Kuhn, Adolf Butenandt and Gerhard Domag... |
12 October 2012
08:40 GMT |
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Just in case you were still holding out hope that, one day, science will allow us to use DNA found in dinosaur bones to clone a new specimen, thus turn the events of “Jurassic Park” into a (rather cruel) reality, a new study comes to shatter all such dreams.
Cloning of a dinosaur from old DNA is impossi... |
11 October 2012
14:21 GMT |
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User AsapSCIENCE has posted a lucid dreaming tutorial yesterday, continuing the science for dummies series. They may be simplistic, but their basic techniques for remembering your dreams sound legit.
You too have 3 to 7 dreams per night, even though you might be thinking you don't dream. In order to perform thi... |
11 October 2012
04:49 GMT |
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Have you ever wondered how much your shadow weighs? Michael Stevens from Vsauce has, and he sets to answer this seemingly philosophical question, the scientific way.
Vsauce upload tons of videos, bringing science to the people via YouTube. This particular informational clip racked up a half of a million views since ... |
9 October 2012
04:02 GMT |
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Doctors at the Stony Brook Hospital in New York performed a miracle when they removed a 4-inch (10 cm) nail from a 78-year-old man's chest.
Huffington Post reported on this man's unusual injury, that left his relatives and doctors shocked, and praying for his recovery.
The incident happened in Stony Broo... |
8 October 2012
08:33 GMT |
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Like-A-Hug is the world's first social media piece of clothing. This coat will hug you every time friends like your posts or pictures on Facebook. MIT researchers put together the technologically advanced item. This device inflates every time one receives a like, and the recipient can send a like back, which wo... |
6 October 2012
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Albert Einstein's letter to God was written in German, one year before his death, on January 3, 1954. It embodies the expression of the scientist's views on god and religion.
The handwritten letter will be auctioned off on e-Bay by Los Angeles-based agency Auction Cause. The item is set to include the orig... |
5 October 2012
09:16 GMT |
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As legend has it, the effects of caffeine were first noticed by Ethiopian goat shepherd Kaldi, that realized their goats were more energetic after consuming little red berries. The origins of the bean were placed somewhere in the Ethiopian Kingdom of Kaffa. Those bright red berries contain the coffee seed. They usua... |
4 October 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Jakub Halik underwent heart surgery on April 3rd, at which time his heart was replaced with a mechanical one. This is the first successful case in which a man survived said transfer, living for six months with no pulse.
According to Medical Daily, the artificial pumper spins at 10,000 rotations per minute, performin... |
4 October 2012
10:42 GMT |
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YouTube user FlippyCat gives an interactive, visual lesson in paleontology. His Fall of the dinosaurs video went viral with more than 100,000 views in the last few days.
Dinosaurs roamed the planet for more than 100 million years, which makes them one the most persistent creatures in history.
The video recreates t... |
4 October 2012
05:24 GMT |
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Hexaflexagons are basically folded paper hexagons, which, when, unfolded, reveal a surprising number of faces.
The flexagon was discovered by Arthur H. Stone in 1939, that figured out that polygons made out of folded strips of paper, can be flexed, or reversed, revealing more than 2 faces.
Stone was a student ... |
2 October 2012
05:30 GMT |
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Associate Professor of Biogeography Lyudmila Emeliyanova has used echo sounding devices to analyze the waters of Lake Labynkyr in Siberia, looking for proof of what the locals call “the Devil.”
The Devil is a large underwater creature allegedly spotted by locals in the lake. Also known as “Russia&r... |
24 September 2012
08:54 GMT |
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Cats and dogs are everyone's favorite pets, but there is a long-standing rivalry between the two species, so here are some areas where cats display genetic superiority.
Cats have better hearing than dogs. Though both species perceive ultrasounds, cats capture sounds one octave higher than dogs are able to. Acco... |
20 September 2012
05:40 GMT |
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The video below shows you how to get “Big Brother“ off your tail. The man turns his hat into a device that blinds the camera, while still remaining undetectable to the naked eye. According to Wikipedia, a light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor light source. In the past, LEDs were used as indicato... |
19 September 2012
02:52 GMT |
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Oddstuffmagazine has recently published some odd and interesting facts about cats.“Ailurophilia,” for example, is the “official” term used to describe a cat lover.
“Psi-traveling” is the cat's ability to find its way home, by interpreting the angle of the sunlight. That ... |
18 September 2012
13:51 GMT |
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The idea of using milk to make plastic may sound far-fetched, but this video shows it works in practice. Milk contains casein molecules. This molecule is a monomer, and a chain of casein monomers is a polymer.
The steps of this experiment are provided in the Scientific American. You will need one cup of milk and fo... |
14 September 2012
04:00 GMT |
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