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Science
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Meet The World’s Smallest Flying Robot [VIDEO]
03 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
American scientists, Dr Kevin Ma and his team led by Dr Robert Wood, have created a flying robot as small as a fly. Dubbed the “robo-fly”, the robot is built from carbon fibre, weighs less than a gram and has “super-fast electronic muscles to power its wings.”
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Mars Curiosity Rover Draws Penis On Red Planet – For Real [PIC]
25 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Mars Curiosity Rover, the world’s most expensive robot has taken to occupying its time by drawing penises on the surface of the red planet.
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Argentina’s Sky Lit Up By Meteorite [VIDEO]
23 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a an event usually reserved for Russian YouTube, night turned to day in Santiago del Estero, Argentina on Saturday evening. The video shows footage taken at a concert when the sky suddenly illuminates, so much so that it looks like day for a split second.
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Scientists Turn Brain Transparent To Get A Better Look [VIDEO]
11 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Scientists at Stanford University have developed a new way of looking at the brain – they make the brain tissue almost transparent.
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Awesome Camera Snaps 3D Images From 1 Kilometre Away
10 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This camera uses infrared laser beams to scan objects while the light gets reflected back to the camera. Adetector measures the distance and calculates the disctance between the camera and the object, and bam you have your 3-D image.
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NASA’s Best Footage Of Earth From Space, So Far [VIDEO]
09 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s earth month everyone, and as a tribute to our pale blue dot, NASA has put together a highlights reel of shots of the earth from space captured over the course of 2012, so we can “understand and sustain our home planet”.
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Electricity Generating Bacteria Could Be Used As Bio Batteries
26 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A joint research effort between the United States and the United Kingdom could result in bacteria acting as microscopic “bio-batteries.” The powerful bacteria, Shewanella oneidensis, have been confirmed by scientists to generate an electrical charge. Dr Tom Clarke, a lecturer at the school of biological sciences at the University of East Anglia and lead researcher […]
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“I Watched A Large Meteorite Burn Up Between Me And Australia” – Commander Hadfield Answers Excellent Questions From Space
14 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Canadian Astronaut, Commander Chris Hadfield has risen to Twitter fame over the course of the last few months by tweeting beautiful pictures of earth from the point of view of the International Space Station, currently orbiting around the planet at a sedate pace of 27 600km per hour. Consider this one, for example. The Isle […]
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What Is Passion Quotient (PQ), And Why Is This More Important Than Having A High IQ?
31 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Thomas Friedman wrote a best-selling book about our connected world in 2004, called The World Is Flat. But that was mostly before the dawn of Facebook.
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Nobel Prize Winner Predicts Human Cloning A Reality “Within 50 Years”
19 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sir John Gurdon, the British scientist who won this year’s Nobel prize for medicine, says that the progression to human cloning could happen within the next 50 years. It is also Gurdon’s work involving the cloning frogs in the 1950’s and 60’s that led to the later creation of Dolly the sheep by Edinburgh scientists in 1996.
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Stephen Hawking Awarded Prestigious R26 Million Cash Physics Prize
12 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Stephen Hawking and CERN have won this year’s prestigious Fundamental Physics Prize. The award was given to Hawking for his discovery that black holes emit radiation, and his “deep contributions” to quantum gravity and quantum aspects of the early universe. The prize money – a whopping R26m – is considered to be science’s most lucrative award.
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Mind-Controlled Artificial Limbs Coming In 2013 [VIDEO]
29 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The lives of those with prosthetic limbs may have the chance to improve rapidly with the introduction of thought-controlled robotic arms. These prosthetics and their electrodes will connect directly to the bones and nerves of amputees.
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SA Study: Some People Are Capable Of Making HIV-Neutralising Antibodies
22 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A team of South African scientists has discovered that certain people’s blood is capable of producing antibodies that can kill nine of ten known strains of HIV.
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Science Win: Scientists Turn Fresh Air Into Petrol
19 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Ah, science. Air Fuel Synthesis, a small British company based in Stockton-on-Tees, has produced the first “petrol from air”. The scientists used revolutionary technology that “promises to solve the energy crisis as well as help to curb global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.”
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Space Station Time-Lapse Lets You Fly Through Time And Space [VIDEO]
18 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Photographer Christoph Malin from Austria created this amazing film by stacking image sequences taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. It shows beautiful star trails and city lights streaking over the Earth’s surface as seen from space.
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Site Of Julius Caesar’s Stabbing Discovered
12 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Julius Caesar, the most prominent and famous of all the Roman rulers was stabbed on the 15th of March, 44BC – known as the Ides of March. We know this thanks to the many classical texts detailing the event. For the first time, archaeologists suspect they may have found physical evidence.
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Felix Baumgartner Jumps From 23 Miles Above The Earth At 14h30 Today
09 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
At approximately 14h30 South African time, skydiver Felix Baumgartner will attempt the highest, fastest free fall in history – 37 kilometres above Earth.
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Russian Boy Finds Perfectly Preserved Woolly Mammoth
05 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A local Russian boy has come upon the remains of a woolly mammoth, a creature that is estimated to have walked on the earth about 30 000 years ago. After excavation by local paleontologists, it has been described as the second best preserved mammoth ever discovered.
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South African Fossil Reveals New Dinosaur Species
04 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new species of dinosaur has been unveiled – the Pegomastax africanus, a 200-million-year-old dinosaur – and it is the subject of a new peer-reviewed research paper in the journal ZooKeys. The fossils were discovered in South Africa (around and in Lesotho) 50 years ago.
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Stellenbosch University Gives Companies Free Access To Its Research
03 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a bold move that is the is the first of its kind in the country, Stellenbosch University is making its intellectual property and research findings available to companies and firms, for free.
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How Smartphones Are Revolutionising Health Care [INFOGRAPHIC]
26 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
“The electronic management of health care through mobile devices” or, more simply, “mHealth” is rapidly on the rise and a recent study shows just how much of a positive impact it is having. From everyday apps that assist with general health and fitness to more medically-purposed ones that can monitor blood pressure, the presence of […]
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US Scientists Find New Way Dagga Could Stop Cancer
21 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s been a subject that’s as old as time – let us smoke our weed, because it has medicinal properties. Scientists at a US medical center in California have provided new credence to this claim, discovering a compound derived from the plant which stops the metastases of many kinds of aggressive cancer.
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A Robot Tentacle Gentle Enough To Pick Up A Flower
12 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Robots have an unfortunate rep as cold, heartless machines designed with the express purpose of crushing, destroying or otherwise permanently rearranging the makeup or anything smaller or weaker than themselves. A newly released video however casts the mechanical beings in a different light, one which shows that they are capable of immense finesse, so much so that they could pick a flower without damaging it at all.
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DARPA’s Robot Cheetah Can Outsprint Bolt [VIDEO]
06 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Usain Bolt recently made history again when he dominated both the 100m and 200m sprints in spectacular style at the Olympic Games, reconfirming his status as the fastest man alive. Fastest man. Boston Dynamic’s Cheetah just crushed Bolt’s all-time top speed of 44,72 kph and in doing so marked the commencement of the slow, but inevitable, robopocalypse.
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Awesome Interactive 360° Panorama From The Surface Of Mars
14 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Unless you’re currently in some kind of deep space training program, or you have some diabolical plan that no one knows about, the chances are pretty slim that you’ll ever actually get to set foot on Mars. Thankfully, we’ve got the next best thing for you, a fully interactive 360° panorama from the surface of the Red Planet. Enjoy.
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From Frankenstein With Love: Harvard Scientists Build Jellyfish From Scratch
23 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is just plain unbelievable. A group of researchers at Harvard, in a study towards building the first artificial human heart, have created their own creature. Similar to a jellyfish, they’ve created a Medusoid – a hybrid “pseudo-organism” made from the cells of a rat’s heart and a special polymer film.
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This 15-Year Old Is Revolutionising The Way We Test For Cancer [VIDEO]
19 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
For most 15-year olds, the last thing they want to do after school is head to a lab and work on their biology. Jack Andraka however, is not most 15-year olds and after school he heads over to Johns Hopkins University where he’s working on a test for cancer that is leaps and bounds ahead of what’s ahead now.
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In Mourning: Dolphin Carries Dead Baby For Days [VIDEO]
18 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A mourning ritual that is rarely seen, and even more rarely captured on camera, will raise further questions about whether dolphins understand the concept of death.
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The Best View Of Mars Yet
09 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
After months and months of image collection, NASA has released what is the best image of Mars yet. If you can’t get there this week, this is the next best thing. Described by Nasa as the ‘Greeley Panorama’ from the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, the first image documents the fifth Martian Winter of the mission.
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Higgs Boson ‘God Particle’ Explained – Quick Simple Video
08 Jul 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
This ‘God Particle’ vibe doesn’t seem to be going away. That’s why we scoured the net to find the shortest, clearest, simplest educational video to bring you up to speed, so you can wow your friends. Check it out.
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