A bunch of Mexican scientists found that the makeup of tequilla is perfect for making diamond film from. The results were amazing, same as with the ethanol and water compound, we obtained almost spherical shaped diamonds of nanometric size. There is no doubt; tequila has the exact proportion of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms necessary Read more about Scientists Turn Tequila into Diamonds[…]
Some people have a natural resistance to HIV due to a genetic mutation. Dr. Hütter transplanted a HIV infected patient’s bone marrow with some from an immune person and the HIV virus, surprisingly, dissappeared. Now they’re looking into whether it’s a fluke or not.
You spit in a tube, post it to 23andMe and get a result on your predisposition for more than 90 traits and conditions ranging from baldness to blindness. So you can select your next partner with even more care than ever before and be scared shitless of having a child for ever more.
Who knew? If you peel away Scotch tape, you emit X-Rays. Well, the Russians found out about 50 years ago. It turns out that unpeeling 3 cm / second emits enough X-Rays to take a picture of a finger!
In addition to gas, liquid and solid we now also have “quasi-three- dimensional electron crystal”, which is sort of 3D, but not quite. Strange stuff, and the boffins are looking at it to see what they can do with it, but as they discovered it in a resistor, there’s a good chance this will be Read more about New state of matter found[…]
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The images made by National Geographic are incredible and show baby sharks eating their siblings in the womb as well as cats, dogs, lions, bees, wolves, penguins, etc as they grow in incredible detail
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This is a great introduction to the night sky, and teaches you to find Orion, Jupiter, Polaris, Casseopia and Betelguese quickly and easily. Worth running through.
It’s a great article about them, but this is something I’ve been looking for for ages: it describes the huge gatherings these sharks have as they migrate towards the poles: 500 large! I’ve seen footage of them passing over in endless ranks… this is something I need to do before I die!
After 3 failed launces, fourth time was lucky – the three stage rocket made it to low earth orbit, making it the first privately funded spacecraft to do this, trumping Spaceship One, which, allthough manned, only stays in space for very short periods of time.
Well done China, not many countries have had spacewalking astronauts!
20 Watts of power was transmitted wirelessley between 2 points 98 miles apart. The resultant power at the end station was only 1000th of what was sent, but this shows the feasability of the concept. The ultimate plan is to have satellites transmit the power to stations on earth.
We have had in rapid succession a transparent water repellent coating and Golden Shellback which water and dustproofs. Now we have a British process to make any item ‘100% waterproof’ through ion masking. They can’t yet do electronics though they’re working on it.
A great idea in the fight against cancer: make the cancerous cells light up in a fluorescent colour, so that the surgeon knows if he’s cut out enough the first time round. Saves a lot of extraenous flesh being cut away too.
What are cars going to look like in the year 2015? Well, I’m guessing they’re going to look kind of like our cars to day, but maybe a touch more aerodynamic. But hey, what do I know? When asked the same question, Transportation Design students at Turin-based IED (istituto Europeo di Design) came up with Read more about 2015 concept BMW certainly is futuristic[…]
When your aim is to travel across the great ice plains of Antarctica, a normal car or truck meant for highways and regular streets probably isn’t going to meet your specific needs. You need a vehicle designed for the wide expanses of ice down on the bottom of the world. The Lotus Concept Ice Vehicle Read more about Drive to the south pole in style in the Lotus CIV[…]
geothermal-power-process.jpgIn case you weren’t aware, below the surface of the earth there’s a sea of insanely hot material that’s constantly swirling around. When tapped, that heat source can be used as geothermal power. With so much down there, why aren’t we using it more? That’s a question asked in Australia, where a study determined that Read more about 1% of potential geothermal energy could deliver power for 26,000 years[…]
Of all the electric car designs we’ve seen, this one is the most puzzling yet. The Hinterland Project starts with the shape of an airplane fuselage and turns it into a sustainable vehicle. However, it looks more like an electric tin can with wheels to us. The idea is its aerodynamic shape and lightweight aluminum Read more about Hinterland electric vehicle looks like a bulbous bullet train[…]
The final frontier of wireless tech is upon us, with Intel showing off its electricity flying through the air with better efficiency than ever. While it’s not the first wireless power transmitting device we’ve seen, this one uses resonance rather than induction, and boasts 75% efficiency. Hey, that means if you send 100 watts across Read more about Intel wireless power is pure magic, most efficient yet[…]
What do you get when you bring together a pizza oven, some nail polish and inkjet printers? Solar cells. You and I may be scratching our heads, but the woman behind the process known as iJet, Nicole Kuepper, won two Australian Museum Eureka Prizes — Australia’s top science awards. The real beauty of Ms. Kuepper’s Read more about Australian student fashions solar cells out of nail polish as only MacGyver could[…]
Iran has just launched a satellite into space using it’s own rocket.
The coating causes water to bead up into drops and roll or bounce off a surface, can be applied by spraying, spinning or dipping and allows you to determine the path which the droplets take when they roll off. This is extremely usefull to prevent icing on aircraft (which is extremely dangerous) but also to Read more about Transparent coating repels water[…]
Nope – that’s when the Large Hadron Collider finally gets fired up!