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Novel MIT tabletop particle detector capable of ‘seeing’ individual electrons
A new tabletop detector developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is capable of imaging individual electrons. This new device may also answer one of the great...
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Polar Ice Caps On Pluto? NASA New Horizons Discovers Possible Features
A polar ice cap on Pluto may have been discovered by the New Horizons spacecraft, as the vessel continues closing in on the icy dwarf planet. As the spacecraft, launched in 2006, draws closer to the...
View ArticleThunder has been visually captured for the very first time
Thunder has been imaged for the first time, revealing how sound waves propagate from lightening. Lightning strikes roughly four million times each day, but the physics of the events is still largely a...
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Spiders not only ‘fly’ but are skilled sailors capable of sea travel
Arachnophobes everywhere be warned, even bodies of water cannot keep spiders away as it has been discovered that some spiders are master sailors capable of traveling across oceans in order to settle...
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Adidas turning ugly plastic ocean trash into beautiful sneakers
Adidas is looking to take the plastic waste that is dumped into our ocean yearly and turn it into a beautiful knitted sneaker comprised of material reclaimed from illegal deep-sea gillnets and other...
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Major cities doomed if remaining fossil fuel reserves burned absolutely
It may not occur tomorrow or the day after, but according to a recent study published in Science Advances, a journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), cities such as...
View ArticleArctic Ocean wildlife unexpectedly active during polar night
The Arctic polar night is typically seen as a time of year when the darkness and cold slow biological activity to a halt, but a recent study sheds light on the dark polar nights of the Arctic. The lack...
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Sweet Smell of Success! Rare Corpse flower blooms in Chicago Botanic Garden
After the disappointment surrounding the manual blooming of Spike the corpse flower, another corpse flower at the Chicago Botanic Garden has stepped up to show Spike how blooming is done. Alice, a...
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Ancient flea preserved in amber discovered harboring ancestral black death
A 20-million-year old microscopic flea preserved through the ages in hardened amber has been discovered to contain a possible ancient ancestor of the bubonic plague- or black death. “First of all it’s...
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Flower Power! Cyborg rose unveiled with embedded electronics
When the idea of green energy was constructed few probably would have thought that the term could ever become literal, but that is exactly what has happened as a team of researchers at the Laboratory...
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