NASA researchers have built the first working Star Trek Tricorder, and it's called the Scanadau Scout. This portable device can measure your heart rate, temperature, blood oxygen levels, respiratory rate, blood pressure, ECG and emotional stress - just like Spock's handheld gadget. Continue reading for two videos and more information.
Whle experimental, 12 burn victims have already been successfully treated with the "skin gun", a device that takes adult stem cells from a burn victim's only healthy skin and sprays it on to the damaged area. According to Dr. Jorg C. Gerlach and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, the process involves "isolating stem cells from a healthy patch of the patient's skin, putting those cells in a water solution, and then spraying the mixture back on. After being sprayed, the patient's wound is covered with a special dressing that provides glucose, sugar, amino acids, antibiotics and electroytes to the treated area, to provide nutrition and clean the wound until the stem cells get established. The whole process takes 90 minutes and burns have been reportedly achieved in as few as four days." Continue reading for a video and more information.
Reddit user Fidget08 noticed something odd on his way to work earlier this week, outside of Hennessy Hall (an 1890s Georgian-style building with 100 rooms: a tree missing its bark, due to it being struck by lightning. Click here to view the first image in today's viral picture gallery. Continue reading for a video of the greatest pommel horse routine you'll ever see.
Did you know that there are actually space sounds? Or, that there have been several occurrences of raining fish and that it's possible to travel faster than light? If not, those are just some of the fascinating science mysteries that we've rounded up for you today. Continue reading to see them all.
Dragon Skin is basically a type of ballistic vest made by Pinnacle Armor. It's known for its two-inch-wide circular discs that overlap like scales. This design creates a flexible vest that allows a good range of motion and can allegedly absorb a high number of hits compared with other military body armor. Continue reading for a video and more information.
Active camouflage is present in several groups of animals including cephalopod molluscs, fish, and reptiles. There are two mechanisms of active camouflage in animals: counterillumination camouflage, and color change. Continue reading to see twenty incredible examples of how animals camouflage themselves.
Simply put, you can cool water below its freezing point and then crystallize it into ice on command. This process is also known as supercooling. It involves taking a bottle of distilled / purified water, placing it in a freezer for 2.5-hours, and then pouring away. Continue reading to see five cool videos of this process in-action.
This week, scientists have successfully made an embryonic clone of a real person, using DNA from their skin cells. This breakthrough raises the possibility of babies being cloned in the lab by rogue scientists, allowing couples who lose a child to pay for the creation of a 'duplicate'. Continue reading for the news report and more information.
Magneto from the X-Men universe is best known as a powerful mutant with the ability to generate and control magnetic fields. These three people just might be real-life versions of this fictional character, albeit much weaker versions. Continue reading to see them all.
For starters, the Moon is located approximately 386,243 kilometers (240,000 miles) from Earth and has a diameter of 3,476 kilometers (2,160 miles). The Earth's diameter is approximately 12,742 kilometers (7,918 miles). With that said, the fascinating images you're about to see show how six planets from our solar system would look in place of the moon. Continue reading to see them all.
