Researchers have been studying the Tibetan people to help determine what exactly allows them to thrive at high altitudes. According to the researchers, genetic adaptations for life at high elevations … Continue reading
Kissing is great! Everyone loves kissing. But when you stop and think about it, the idea of rubbing your face and tongue up against those of another human being is actually a little… weird. This video tries to get to the bottom of the science of kissing.
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Whether you’re happy to admit it or not, from time to time we all cry. But how? Why? And are all tears the same?
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Medical technology has certainly come a long way from the early days where blood-letting used to be the de facto method of treating any kind of illness. Viral and bacterial infections might be fatal at times, but majority of them require you to just pop a round of antibiotics and you should be back to tip-top shape in no time at all. Burn victims, however, have a much more difficult time, and the scars remains as well which will require an extensive amount of plastic surgery wherever possible in order to return to one’s state prior to the burn. Dr. Jorg Gerlach at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh has come up with what is called a “skin gun“, where it will spray stem cells on burns that will heal in just days afterwards.
Skin Gun Could Heal Skin Burns Within Days original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Brain-bender alert! For the first time ever, scientists have managed to insert nanomotors into living cells. Once inside, the gold, rocket-shaped motors were propelled with ultrasonic waves and steered with magnets. Because we now live in a scene from Fantastic Voyage.
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Tiny motorized probes have navigated through live human cells steered by magnetic fields and propelled by ultrasonic waves for the first time, opening the door to fighting cancer or performing … Continue reading
Back in 1956 a scientists named Dean Bumpus from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod was out in the ocean tossing bottles into the water as a way … Continue reading
Being in the theater of war as a soldier can be quite a harrowing experience, especially when you are thrown headlong into a hot zone. Hence, making sure that you and your buddies are well camouflaged would play to your advantage. Apparently, the Pentagon did commission a new kind of camouflage make-up which is said to be able to offer protection to the human skin on which it was applied on from intense thermal blasts of heat, all the way north to 15 seconds. In the line of fire, this could eventually mean a difference of between 2nd or 3rd degree burns, depending on your proximity to the explosion at that particular point in time.
Insect Repellent Used To Create Camouflage Face Paint original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Scientists have long used balloons to carry certain types of telescopes way up into the air to the stratosphere to get a better view of whatever they are trying to … Continue reading
Losing a limb would be an extremely traumatizing experience for just about anyone, and to come to terms with the loss of a limb requires great mental strength. Thankfully, there are prosthetics which help make someone feel whole again, never mind that the added on limb cannot function anywhere close to the original. Technology, however, has advanced to a point where one can use 3D printers to print out a prosthetic, and when it comes to having that sense of touch, certain cases would allow one to be fitted with a bionic hand that will deliver “touch” feedback to the patient’s brain, now how about that? This time around, a 3D printed hip implant has enabled a teenager to walk again.
3D Printed Hip Implant Allows Teen To Walk Again original content from Ubergizmo. 
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