As we saw a couple of weeks ago, plastic packaging may not be as innocent as it seems. But hey, all of this worry could be for nothing, as it appears that soon there might not even be a need for traditional packaging. Enter, the latest crazy concept from the ‘new food invention’ drawer – WikiPearl.
About a month ago, Orbital Sciences launched its Cygnus spacecraft on a demonstration mission to the ISS. The Cygnus spacecraft is a cargo logistics ship designed to be contracted by NASA to ferry cargo to and from the ISS in orbit around the Earth. Cygnus was forced to abort its first approach to the ISS […]
The breasts of women seem to age more quickly than the rest of their body, according to new research which uses DNA analysis of tissue and blood to measure the rate of cell decline.
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One of the universal truths for most humans who appreciate things like comfort and relaxation and a collection of soft feathers and enveloping warmth and rejuvenation is that we love our sleep. It makes us feel good! And sure it wastes a lot of time but we feel like crap when we don’t have enough of it. And beyond feeling good, we sort of need it. But why do we need it? Why is it that we can die faster from lack of sleep than lack of food? Scishow explains the science behind sleep. [Scishow]
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The team at Google’s Quantum AI Lab have recently done something rather exciting with the immensely popular block building video game Minecraft: they’ve added quantum physics. qCraft, as it’s called, is a mod that adds blocks which exhibit a number of theories present in current-day quantum physics.
Need an easy way to gross yourself out? Watch this video that describes six different parasites by Asap Science. You have worms that create a nest around your butt hole, parasites that take over the tongue of a fish, ants that can become zombies and a whole lotta other scariness. What’s least comforting is how unavoidable it all seems. The littlest things can eventually be the most damaging. [AsapSCIENCE]
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Many believed the Christmas Comet would arrive in time for the holidays. But fears are now rising that it won’t be here in time for the holidays.
Steve Horvath, a professor of human genetics and biostatistics at
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has invented a new
biological clock that accurately keeps time of nearly all tissues in the
human body and how fast they age. His clock helps us understand not only how we age, but how our biological clocks can be turned back.
Imagine creating a 3D digital archive of 500 of the world’s most at-risk heritage sites, preserved in virtual reality so that future generations can explore them in detail for centuries to come. That’s exactly what the CyArk 500 Challenge hopes to achieve—and it’s set itself the ambitious target of doing it in just five years.
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Hair plugs, comb overs and toupées beware; a team of researchers from Columbia has developed a way to induce new human hair growth for the first time ever. It’s not just the fact that they can just grow hair that’s so exciting, though. It’s that they can grow your hair.
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