Believe it or not, artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg uses the DNA found in random objects, like chewing gum, to recreate people's faces. Simply put, she extracts the DNA and studies certain regions of the human genome and then proceeds to send the results to a lab, which translates them to text files filled with sequences of As, Ts, Cs, and Gs, the nucleotides that compose DNA. Continue reading for more.
Scientifically speaking, sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is an inorganic, colorless, odorless, and non-flammable greenhouse gas. It's generally transported as a liquefied compressed gas and has a density of 6.12 g/L at sea level conditions, which is considerably higher than the density of air (1.225 g/L). Continue reading for more.
It's inevitable, humans with bio-tech upgrades that is. These eleven technologies are all real and have been under development for quite some time. They include: exoskeleton suits, bionic eyes, RFID chips that can be embedded in your skin to unlock doors, and more. Continue reading to see them all.
Technically speaking, lightning refers to an electrostatic discharge between electrically charged regions within clouds, or between a cloud and the Earth's surface. The charged regions within the atmosphere temporarily equalize themselves through a lightning flash, commonly referred to as a strike if it hits an object on the ground. Continue reading for more.
Whether it be gallium or self-healing concrete, there are even more mind-bending materials that actually exist today. For now, most of them remain elusive to the average consumer, but some of these could be readily available to consumers in the near future should practical and / or safe uses be found. Continue reading to see more.
You've probably come across at least one video showing what happens when people microwave ivory soap, but have you ever wondered why it reacts that way? According to Steve Spangler, Proctor & Gamble whip lots of air into their ivory soap mixture before solidifying it to form bars. The air, along with moisture, gets trapped inside tiny bubbles throughout the bar. So when those bubbles are exposed to intense heat, they boil and expand causing it to foam up. Continue reading for more.
We have seen the future of artificial intelligence, and they're plugged into the world wide web. Researchers at Japan's Tokyo Institute of Technology, led by Dr. Osamu Hasegawa, unveils SOINN, an artificial brain that actually uses the internet learn and perform new tasks. Continue reading for a video and more information.
What you're looking at above is touted as the world's smallest movie, and it's called "A Boy and His Atom". Technically speaking, an atom is the smallest division of a chemical element, and to even see one with the human eye, you'd need to magnify it over 100-million-times. According to IBM, "there are probably more atoms in one grain of sand than there are grains of sand on an entire beach." Continue reading for more.
At first glance, this may appear to be an artificial lake of sorts, but it's actually Minnesota's Medicine Lake. In the video, you'll see ice needles being pushed up from the water onto the shore. This phenomenon is so rare that it already received over 1.2-million views on YouTube in less than 2-days. Continue reading to see why.
Did you know that the slinky was invented and developed by naval engineer Richard James in the early 1940s and demonstrated at Gimbels department store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in November 1945? It was originally intended to help support and stabilize sensitive equipment on ships. Continue reading for more well known items that were discovered by accident.
