DeepMind, the AI developed by Google. has made what scientists are calling a “gargantuan leap” in solving biology’s greatest question. To say scientists are excited would be an understatement.
Category: General Science
You can now easily build a low-cost microscope that uses off the shelf parts and is as powerful as commercial microscopes costing thousands of times more. Meet the brilliant modular UC2 microscope system.
This is definitely one of the coolest things we’ve ever seen. A open source microscope that uses a modular design letting you build a low-cost microscope using off-the-shelf parts and a 3D printer – and it’s as powerful as microscopes costing thousands of times more!
Scientists are getting closer to figuring out which types of forests are best to fight global climate change.
Trapping carbon dioxide is a crucial role in the battle against climate change. Thus, scientists are trying to figure out how to maximize the ability of forests to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
Scientists have measured the shortest interval of time ever recorded – and now know it takes 247 zeptoseconds for a particle of light to cross a single hydrogen molecule.
It’s official folks. It takes 247 zeptoseconds, or a trillionth of a billionth of a second, for a particle of light to cross a single molecule of hydrogen marking the shortest interval of time ever recorded. Yep, that’s a 1 written behind 20 zeroes and a decimal point. Blink, blink. It’s gone. The measurement was…
The record for the largest machine ever built by human hands, the Large Hadron Collider, is about to be beaten.
At nearly 17 miles long, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest machine every built by human hands. This week CERN says they are planning to build an even larger super collider – about 4-times bigger than the existing collider.
Neanderthals weren’t as stupid as dumb scientists thought – they could make fire and used resin ‘glue’ to craft their stone tools and stuff.
It seems as if Neanderthals were not as dumb as scientists thought. Archaeologists rummaging around in a cave in Italy found some of the oldest known evidence of the Neanderthals using glue on their stone tools. The process is called “hafting” and it wasn’t believed the slope-headed cousins of Homo sapiens knew how to do…
Watch this Air Force test sled reach a mind boggling 6,599 miles/hour (Mach 8.6).
Hold on tight because this video shows a high-speed test at the Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico that makes us think the Air Force should be designing roller coasters. The sled in this video reaches a dazzling speed of 6,599 miles/hour. That’s Mach 8.6 for the science nerds.
This company is trying to solve climate change by using giant machines to suck CO2 out of the air.
Today kids can triumphantly raise their fists in the air and shout “We told you so!” A company out of British Columbia has created a machine that can suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and put it back into the ground!
What plant or tree is best to grow for offsetting global warming and combating climate change?
The production of carbon dioxide and other “greenhouse gases” is further worsened by our purposeful destruction of trees. This is bad because trees absorb carbon dioxide and store it. The very thing that sucks carbon dioxide out of the air and helps reduce global warming causes is being destroyed at an alarming rate.
Check out the “dirty thunderstorm” raging inside the mouth of erupting Mount Sakurajima
Mount Sakurajima, a 3,665-foot high volcano in Japan, erupted this week sending a plume of smoke more than 3 miles into the air. Even cooler, all the flying ash and rock created a static electricity storm inside the mouth of the volcano. A photographer captured a picture of the storm which raged within the Showa…
