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In the closing days of the last month of the year, Princeton scientists achieved yet another scientific marvel when they successfully created the world's first synthetic proteins that sustain life. Michael Hecht, a professor of chemistry at Princeto
Lake Vostok, which has been sealed off from the world for 14 million years, is about to be penetrated by a Russian drill bit. The lake, which lies four kilometres below the icy surface of Antarctica, is unique in that it's been completely isolated fr
Several decades ago medical researchers noticed a shocking new trend: male fertility was declining. If the decline continued the human race would become extinct. Since that time the rate of decline has accelerated. When first detected, worried res
premature hair loss, reverse color loss in graying hair and regulate many of the ills that appear with excess aging. Fo-Ti helps prevent thinning hair and restore dry, brittle and damaged hair. It shows efficacy for use in genetic pattern balding as
The world of physics can be strange, very strange indeed. And every once in awhile something happens during an experiment that throws a wrench into the neatly constructed model of how everything works and causes all assumptions to be reassessed. Such
Milgram once wrote that we are "puppets controlled by the strings of society". Yet what is also true is that not all puppets jump when their strings are pulled.
In fact, the people who are most susceptible to catching the flu are precisely the very same people who get vaccinated. Why is that? Because vaccines weaken the immune system in the long run, leaving you more vulnerable to future infections. They den
One of the biggest mysteries of physics could end with what scientists find 4,850 feet below the Black Hills of South Dakota
The new specs for the project: 200 turbines, at least 18 miles off the Rhode Island coast; 1,000 Megawatts (previously it was 350 MW), with an undersea transmission network stretching from Massachusetts to New York. The transmission network alone add
A border collie named Chaser has learned the names of 1,022 individual items — more than any other animal, even the legendary Alex the parrot.
Sure, you can buy a flying car from Hammacher Schlemmer. But for truly bizarre catalog collections, turn to America’s laboratory supply companies. It’s a fair bet your favorite holiday catalog will not include a small-animal guillotine, for instance.
“I came up the the idea while working on a separate invention that required cutting many pieces off of metal bars, with a hack saw and miter box,” he told Gizmag. “I live in an apartment so using a power saw was not really an option. I wanted a less
The batteries employ vertical arrays of nickel-tin nanowires perfectly encased in PMMA, a widely used polymer best known as Plexiglas. The Rice laboratory of Pulickel Ajayan found a way to reliably coat single nanowires with a smooth layer of a PMMA-
A novel kind of fission reaction observed at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva has exposed serious weaknesses in our current understanding of the nucleus. The fission of mercury-180 was expected to be a "symmetric" reaction that would
Biologists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successful deciphered a 3-billion year old genetic fossil and found that an ancient surge of life on Earth was related to the sun. For some time it's been known that a surprising upsurge o
Today, a broken hip usually means surgery and extensive rehab. But what if all you needed was an injection and a shorter recovery period? That's the vision that inspires Thomas Webster, an associate professor of engineering at Brown University.
As the ship moves forward, the layer of air slides back and out from under the hull. But blowing more bubbles to replenish it does not require much energy, so fuel savings of 5-10% are within reach, says Dr Ceccio. He studies air-lubrication systems,
wind turbines, which rotate on a vertical pole and can take wind from any direction. As I was starting to model the equations for the wind field around a turbine, it was sort of one of these eureka moments—I realized that they were very similar to t
One of the most difficult muscles to repair are those that make up the heart. Now scientists working at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts believe they've found a method that's so simple it's stunning other medical researchers. T
"I was interested in seeing how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends," Butler wrote in a Facebook post accompanying the map. "I wanted a visualization that would show which cities had a lot of frien
Yes, that's right. In less than 10 years you might be expected to join millions of other "augmented humans" with a shiny new iBrain. As privacy experts cringe, advocates virtually wax poetic, ecstatically ticking off on their fingertips an array o
Britain's beaches could soon be inundated with records numbers of jellyfish, marine experts warned today. Scientists say the number of jellyfish are on the rise thanks to the increasing acidity of t
Levels of toxic vapour around smashed eco-bulbs were up to 20 times higher than the safe guideline limit for an indoor area, the study said.
Today's 33-megajoule shot — powerful enough to launch 33 Smart cars at 100 mph — means the Navy can fire projectiles at least 125 miles, keeping military personnel at a safe distance from their targets, according to the Office of Naval Research.
est solutions were for them,” Khan said, “both AC and DC.” The late nineteenth-century War of Currents pitted George Westinghouse and alternating current (AC) against Thomas Edison and direct current (DC). Because electricity was then primarily deli
Hyaluronan is a long, gooey sugar discovered in the 1970s. Researchers long thought that it was just another component of the extracellular slime that surrounds all cells. Since then, hyaluronan has been shown to be a significant player in heart deve
e bulb gives off 850 lumens, or around the same amount of light as a 60 watt incandescent bulb. The bulb, however, will only cost around $30 when it hits shelves soon. Two years ago, 60-watt equivalents sold for $100. A single LED bulb can save aroun
Modern analytical techniques can measure the atomic weight of many elements precisely, and these small variations in an element's atomic weight are important in research and industry. For example, precise measurements of the abundances of isotopes o
The new approach turns the conventional model on its head. Planet formation begins at distances in excess of 50 AU from the mother star, when random variations in the density of the protoplanetary gas cloud begin to attract more gas and so grow under
The eclipse begins on Tuesday morning, Dec. 21st, at 1:33 am EST (Monday, Dec. 20th, at 10:33 pm PST). At that time, Earth's shadow will appear as a dark-red bite at the edge of the lunar disk. It takes about an hour for the "bite" to expand and s
