A young student of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin won first prize at General Electric’s Unimpossible Innovation Challenge by proving that a bell can, in fact, be unrung. The point of the contest, says GE officials, is to disprove a particular long held belief or idiom using any field of science the contestants …
It is the brain child of inventor and visionary Charles Bombardier of Montreal and it is called the Space Express. When completed, Bombardier claims that the space craft will be able to travel so fast that it will be able to get to Mars in less than 48 hours. He and his research team expect …
Scientists have discovered that the Tasmania Devil population may survive after all. It seems that in the last couple of generations, the creatures have somehow developed a resistance to a highly contagious face cancer that has threatened the species with extinction. Already, about 80% of the animals have disappeared because of the cancer. The amazing …
A cosplay Batman suit was recently cited by the Guinness Book of World Records as Most Functional Gadgets on a Cosplay Suit. The new record, and the suit, display 23 functioning gadgets that can do a multitude of things. The creation of the suit was inspired by the video game, Batman: Arkham Origins. The suit …
Scientists have recently discovered that a galaxy the size of the Milky Way galaxy is made up almost entirely of dark matter. The galaxy, known as Dragonfly 44, was originally found back in 2015 and was in a cluster of about one thousand galaxies that are at least 300 light years or so from Earth. …
Even though the technique known as “helicopter parenting” has been proven time and again to be ineffective, it has now been discovered that the concept is irreversible and that no amount of parental demonstrative love and affection can negate the damage it does in the long term. These were the recent findings of a research …
Researchers at Stanford University have created a small device about the size of a quarter that will work with the energy from the sun to purify contaminated water in less than thirty minutes. The process, they claim, takes only two days and will destroy 99.99 of all the bacteria in the water it is tasked …
Doctors at UCLA recently decided to try and stimulate, or “jump start”, the brain of a 25 year old man who had fallen into a coma following an auto accident. They decided to try and do this using ultrasound. The doctors figured they may be able to revive the thalamus region of the man’s brain …
A young Saudi Arabian woman named Hadeel Ayoub has recently invented a smart glove that has the ability to translate sign language into both speech as well as text. The young artist and designer, as well as scientist and researcher, was the recent winner of the UK’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Prize. She currently attends Goldsmiths …
The remains of an ancient marsupial that roamed Australia over 18 million years ago were recently discovered by paleontologists in a remote and untamed region of northern Queensland. The scientists say that the “micro lion” was rather small weighing in at around 1.3 pounds and much smaller than similar species around at the time. It …