• Bio-engineer develops a Petri Arcade

    We already thought that Flash games were cool, imagine how we’d feel about petri dish games. This is exactly what Ingmar Riedel-Kruse had in mind when he developed Ciliaball and Pac-mecium, two games that are playable by interacting with real live microbes, using microscopic cameras and a special microscopic...
  • Twenty-four hour photo is a creative way to kill a full day

    The amazing photograph that you see above is the perfect combination of art and science. Greek photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos spent a full day capturing photographs in specific directions at a spot in Athens, Greece – he then spent 12-hours rendering them to combine the 360-degree small world effect with...
  • Coming soon; “Killer Paper” to preserve food longer.

    Scientists have developed a way to affix silver nano particles on paper without the nano particles falling off, so now we’re only a handful of clinical trials and tests away from getting our own “Killer Paper”. The coated paper killed off E. coli and another nasty bacteria in just three hours....
  • A second Sun for Earth in lieu of the Mayan end in 2012?

    Apparently it’s not only scientifically plausible, but also very possible and likely. At least the part about the second “sun”. According to Dr.Brad Carter Senior Lecturer of Physics at the University of Southern Queensland, Betelgeuse, the second most massive star in our galaxy, is losing mass and is nice...
  • German Dentist Uses Sexy Dresses to Calm Patients

    Dentist Sedates Patients with Cleavage One German Dentist is using her God given talents to get patients calm before procedures. She’s outfitted herself and 10 dental assistants in cleavage exposing, figure enhancing dresses to distract worried patients. Plunging to new depths in techniques that are more naturally endowed then...
  • And for their next trick, Italy brings us cold fusion!

    They’ve brought us pizza (they still do!), they’ve invented the road, and marble, they’ve perfected pasta and made real football unwatchable, now for their next trick; Cold fusion. It’s the holy grail of energy making processes, basically it’s a controversial (but patented) process by which very little mass is...
  • Scientists Ready to Clone Extinct Wooly Mammouth

    Once again the world of science is looking to mess with the natural evolution of things. This time they’re looking to clone the woolly mammoth which has been extinct for thousands of years. And they’re saying it could be done in as little at 4 years. Attempts to accomplish...
  • Jeopardy champions no match for IBM’s Watson [video]

    So how do you think a couple of sharp human minds would stack up against IBM’s Watson in a game of Jeopardy? Former Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter find out when they taste bitter defeat in this rather one-sided three-minute practice session. To be fair, Ken scores...
  • Solar eclipse as seen from space

    In case you didn’t know, there was a solar eclipse on January 4th and Japan’s Hinode x-ray telescope satellite (which was set up to study the Sun’s magnetic fields) was in prime position to capture one of the best eclipse photographs that I have ever seen. [National Geographic via...