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Science
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Imagine Charging Your Phone In 30 Seconds: 18-Year-Old Invents Best Thing Since Sliced Bread [VIDEO]
21 May 2013 by Gabi October / 1 Comment
Can you remember what you were doing at 18? It certainly had nothing to do with developing a superconductor that can charge your phone ina 20-30 seconds.
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The Future Of Medicine: Brain Implants Will Restore Your Lost Memory
08 May 2013 by Gabi October / No Comments
American-neuroscientists from the University of Southern California, and North Carolina’s Wake Forest University believe that the restoration of lost long term memory could be achieved through brain implants within the next few years.
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Meet The World’s Smallest Flying Robot [VIDEO]
03 May 2013 by Gabi October / 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 Gabi October / 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 Gabi October / 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 Gabi October / 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 Gabi October / 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 Aramat Broccoly / 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 Gabi October / 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 silverstreak / 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 Steyn du Toit / 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 Steyn du Toit / 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 Steyn du Toit / 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 Harry Haddon / 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 Albi P / 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 Bearded Wiseman / 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 Harry Haddon / 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 Simon Gerber / 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 Bearded Wiseman / 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 Simon Gerber / 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 Harry Haddon / 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 Albi P / 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 Albi P / 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 Simon Gerber / 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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