All posts tagged "Science"
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Cancer In A Can: The Shocking True Story Of How Pringles Are Made
To understand the nature of Pringles and other stackable chips, forget the notion that they come from actual potatoes in any recognizable way. The Pringles...
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World’s Oldest Life Form Could Help Fight Antibiotic Resistance
If you’ve ever taken a biology course at or above the high-school level, you’ve probably encountered the term Archaea in a passing sense. You won’t...
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Harvard Researchers Have Successfully Created Human Pain
It’s not easy to develop new treatments for a disease. In fact, many of the things doctors try never make it past the early stages....
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Next Generation Elevator Will Use Magnets Instead Of Cables
The elevator of the future may be just over the horizon thanks to German company ThyssenKrupp. The firm has invented a cable-free elevator (called MULTI)...
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DNA-Programmed Paper Can Test For Ebola And A Whole Lot More
A team of researchers from Harvard and Boston University have invented a remarkably well-developed new screening technology that could allow quick, cheap, portable, and accurate...
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Electronic Skin Breakthrough Makes It Stretchy And Transparent
There’s a lot of research being done right now in the field of wearable electronics. We’re already seeing this in the form of gadgets such...
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North Can Become South In Less Than 100 Years
Schematic illustration of the invisible magnetic field lines of Earth. A recent discovery has shown that the Earth’s magnetic reversal could happen much quicker than...
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Apple, Facebook To Pay For Female Employees To Freeze Their Eggs
Apple and Facebook are adding a new perk for female employees: Free egg freezing that would let them delay parenting for a few years. Facebook...
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Smart Batteries Can Tell You When They’re About To Blow Up
We still have a long way to go when it comes to battery capacity in our mobile devices, but progress has been made. It’s common...
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Harvard Researchers Create A Transparent Smart Bandage That Glows
Tissue oxygenation is important when healing a wound, but it’s also difficult to measure. A new type of spray-on bandage developed by Professor Conor Evans...
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So Just How Contagious Is Ebola, Really
As history’s worst outbreak of Ebola continues to ravage many poor countries, the first cases of the disease are now popping up on affluent North...
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Here’s Why You’re Bouncing Off The Walls: The Genetics Of Coffee Consumption
Researchers have discovered six new genetic variants associated with coffee consumption, bringing our total count to eight, following the first such discovery in 2011. And...
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