Easy New Ways To Make Stem Cells, With A Squeeze Or A Dip

01-30-2014 • popsci.com

Just shy of 10 years after scientists first made embryonic-like stem cells from adult cells, another team finds a totally different way to do it.

The Internet of Vegetables: How Cyborg Plants Can Monitor Our World

01-30-2014 • Wired.com

In the not too distant future, we could see cyborg plants that tell us when they need more water, what chemicals they’ve been exposed to, and what parasites are eating their roots.

Eyes-on with the Avegant Glyph's mesmerizing virtual retinal display

01-30-2014 • gizmag.com

After a few days of bouncing between booths and events during CES, I was more than happy to retreat from the chaotic show floor to a quiet hotel suite to demo Avegant's innovative new headset.

You say lateral frontal pole, I say that little devil/angel that whispers in my ear

01-30-2014 • independent.co.uk

Without recognising it, Oxford scientists appear to have located the consience

Zero running cost home heater

01-30-2014 • Daily Paul.com

I'm not sure if this tech has been posted here so because of all the cold weather I thought I would. It is basically a "free energy" device.

Badass Dive Suit Will Make Even Astronauts Jealous

01-29-2014 • http://www.wired.com, By Erin Biba

After eight hours underwater at a depth of 1,000 feet, a diver must spend 10 days in a decompression chamber. Now there’s a better solution: Nuytco’s Exosuit.

This Leech Can Survive A 24-Hour Submersion in Liquid Nitrogen

01-29-2014 • http://www.popsci.com, By Douglas Main

100 percent of the leeches also survived extreme cold (-130°F) for nine months!

Alpha Centauri B may have "superhabitable" worlds

01-29-2014 • http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy

Since Earth is the only known inhabited planet and we happen to live here, it’s only natural to regard it as the ideal place for life to exist, and to assume that another life-bearing planet would be fairly similar.

This Amazing Camera Prints Images Onto Handblown Glass

01-29-2014 • http://www.wired.com, By Joseph Flaherty

How do you take a photo of a mountain or coastline that doesn’t feel like a hackneyed homage to Ansel Adams?

Scientists Digitize Psychology’s Most Famous Brain

01-29-2014 • http://www.wired.com, By Greg Miller

Henry Gustav Molaison is one of the most famous patients in the annals of brain research.

Rise Of The Insect Drones

01-29-2014 • http://www.popsci.com, By Adam Piore

Nature spent millions of years perfecting flapping-wing flight. Now engineers can reproduce it with machines.

Q&A: The Engineer Who Wants To Power The World With Carbs

01-29-2014 • http://www.popsci.com, By Francie Diep

Visions of a sweet future

Three Years Without Shampoo

01-29-2014 • arclein

Remember pH from high-school chemistry class? If you don’t, here’s the tl;dr version. The pH scale goes from 0 to 14. Water sits in the middle with a neutral 7; anything below that is acidic and anything above is basic or alkaline. Human skin needs t

Quest to grow human organs inside pigs in Japan

01-28-2014 • arclein

The unconscious pig is about to become a surrogate mother - and the embryos she is now carrying are very special. They are chimeric, that is, they carry genetic material from two different species.

This Robotic 'Terminator' Hand Is The Realest Prosthetic We've Seen Yet

01-28-2014 • http://www.businessinsider.com, Amanda Macias

A recent video posted to LiveLeak shows a man, who lost his right hand in a car accident last year, with a Touch Bionics i-limb ultra prosthetic hand.

Watch A Drone Launch A Rocket

01-28-2014 • popsci.com

Put a flying thing on a flying thing so you can blast off while you take off.

Nissan’s Crazy-Powerful New Engine Weighs Just 88 Pounds

01-28-2014 • Wired.com

Anyone can build a small engine. Hell, Ford’s tiniest Ecoboost engine has the displacement of a soda bottle.

Audi Bets on Bio Gasoline Startup

01-28-2014 • Technologyreview.com

Startup Global Bioenergies uses genetic engineering to avoid one of the costliest steps in biofuel production.

10 Reasons To Join The Global March Against Geoengineering

01-27-2014 • theorganicprepper.ca

The debate over the “conspiracy” known as chemtrails, a major part of the growing geoengineering program, has shifted from the existence of the program, to how and why it is being employed.

10 Reasons To Join The Global March Against Geoengineering

01-27-2014 • theorganicprepper.ca

The debate over the “conspiracy” known as chemtrails, a major part of the growing geoengineering program, has shifted from the existence of the program, to how and why it is being employed.

Bee’s Propolis Found to Combat Aluminum Toxicity and Much More

01-27-2014 • naturalsociety.com

In an earlier Natural Society article I covered aluminum toxicity antidotes that are necessary in our toxic environment.

Study: Reading Books Triggers Lasting Changes in the Brain

01-27-2014 • naturalsociety.com

If you’re a reader, chances are there are a few books that stand out as having changed the way you thought about something.

Your Thoughts Can Cause Changes To Your Genes

01-27-2014 • arclein

a group of experienced meditators, compared to a group of untrained control subjects who engaged in quiet non-meditative activities. After eight hours of mindfulness practice, the meditators showed a range of genetic and molecular differences, includ

Lab-grown, virus-free stem cells repair retinal tissue in mice

01-27-2014 • esciencenews.com

Investigators at Johns Hopkins report they have developed human induced-pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) capable of repairing damaged retinal vascular tissue in mice.

Lasers poised to supercharge underwater communications

01-27-2014 • dvice.com

Li-Fi, the technology which allows light in the visible spectrum to be used to transfer data, will someday soon give us all super-fast Internet connectivity through our desk lamps.