Nikola Tesla said it best, “the day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. To understand the true nature of the universe, one must think it terms of energy, frequency and vibr...
Wellcome Trust-funded stem cell research has produced red blood cells fit for transfusion into humans, paving the way for the mass production of blood.It is the stuff of gothic science fiction: men in white coats in factories of blood and bones. But the production of blood on an ...
Roads that light themselves, paint that warns you about icy conditions, and more from the zany Dutch design lab Studio RoosegaardeThe concepts include: glow-in-the-dark roads, asphalt paint that transforms in response to road conditions, and lanes that double as electric car char...
Since its launch in the spring of 2009, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has been hunting exoplanets. The holy grail being a planet that is essentially like ours in terms of size, composition, and habitability: an Earth-twin.While we still haven't found a planet that exactly fits th...
The Japanese space agency JAXA is developing a revolutionary concept to put “power stations” in orbit to capture sunlight and beam it to Earth.The country has been looking for new power sources following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March, 2011, that destroyed mu...
It's a computer - inside a cockroach. Nano-sized entities made of DNA that are able to perform the same kind of logic operations as a silicon-based computer have been introduced into a living animal.The DNA computers - known as origami robots because they work by folding and unfo...
There is no scientific proof of man-made global warming and a hotter earth would be ‘beneficial for humans and the majority of other species’, according to a founding member of environmental campaign group Greenpeace. The assertion was made by Canadian ecologist Patrick ...
No one in the world can fathom what quantum mechanics is, this is perhaps the most important thing you need to know about it. Granted, many physicists have learned to use its laws and even predict phenomena based on quantum calculations.But it is still unclear why the observer of...
Italian designer Gabriele Diamanti (@GabDiamanti) has invented Eliodomestico, an eco-distiller running on solar power, to provide safe drinking-water for people in developing countries: a very simple way to produce healthy, bacteria-free water. Eliodomestico is an open source pro...
For decades, the U.S. government banned medical studies of the effects of LSD. But for one longtime, elite researcher, the promise of mind-blowing revelations was just too tempting.At 9:30 in the morning, an architect and three senior scientists — two from Stanford, the other f...
If you haven’t yet been amazed by the hybrid car that runs on air or the water-powered engine, this vehicle is sure to make you think twice about the alternative forms of transportation which will one day rule the road.The new Thorium car, created by a company called Laser Powe...
While we often think of our bodies and minds as two distinct entities, it turns out they are much more entwined than we might assume.Researchers are continually finding evidence that the brain has a distinct power to manipulate the body’s physiology.As these 10 examples show, t...