Diagnosing cancer and heart disease generally requires extensively trained personnel and expensive instruments. But one MIT research group that wants to solve that problem has designed a single injection and paper-based detection system they’re hoping to ship them everywhere a letter can travel.
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Using the processing power of smartphones from around the globe, HTC is making an initiative called Power To Give for theresearch of medicine, science, and echology. This initiative will work … Continue reading
The folks at HTC have done a scientific study which they suggest leads them to believe that good design makes us happy. In a scientific study of the physical (biometric) … Continue reading
One Moon "day" is approximately 29 1/2 Earth days. This rotation coincides with its orbit around the Earth so that we only see about 59% of the surface of the Moon from Earth. When the Moon first formed, its rotational speed and orbit were very different than they are now. Over time, the Earth’s gravitational field gradually slowed the Moon’s rotation until the orbital period and the rotational speed stabilized, making one side of the Moon always face the Earth.
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Do you remember the T-1000 robot from Terminator 2? Well, that was certainly a villain that was certainly memorable, capable of mimicking other forms as well as voices. Well, that science fiction world might not seem to be too far fetched now, with researchers Lei Sheng, Jie Zhang, and Jing Liu from Tsinghua University in Beijing having come up with a method of manipulating liquid metal, even allowing it to transform its shape on command.
Liquid Metal Robot A Possibility original content from Ubergizmo. 
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There is no planet quite like our beloved planet earth. After all, it is the only planet in the solar system that is capable at this point in time to support life as we know it – and even if we were to be able to colonize the likes of Mars eventually, it will still be very different from earth since there is a need to create an environment that is suitable for humans to move around and breathe without requiring any special apparatus. The European Space Agency has hopes of discovering a new “earth”, where the PLATO (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars) project intends to place more than 30 telescopes in space so that these telescopes will get to work, scanning millions of stars in the process. The reason for doing so? To look for another earth-like planet in another galaxy which has a close resemblance to our solar system.
PLATO Seeks Another “Earth” original content from Ubergizmo. 
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I’m not a kid anymore (unless you’re being very charitable with your age guidelines), but I can only assume today’s parents are telling their kids "Facebook will rot yer brains." In fact, the opposite might be true, according to a teeny, tiny little study from England. Especially for kids with dyslexia.
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One of the more technically creative time lapses we’ve seen in a long while, Snowtime is a 2-minute "microscopic time-lapse" by Vyacheslav Ivanov that captures the mesmerizing bloom of budding ice crystals in all their hexagonal glory.
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Everyone would like to think that, when the robot overlords arrive, they’ll fight. Turns out, most of us might be likelier to submit – scientists in The Republic of Congo have made some very interesting observations about humans, concluding that we might well be wired to serve.
Even though it has many real-world applications—like as a self-sealing lubricant—ferrofluid’s
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