Click through to find out exactly what billion year old water tastes like, according to scientists.
So, we don’t know our bodies as well as we thought. According to scientist, Harminder Dua at The University of Nottingham, a new human body part has been found. But you’ll never be able to clap your eyes on yours. The new classification comes in the form of a layer in the eye. The appropriately-named “Dua Layer” […]
Over two decades ago, eight people entered what they called Biosphere 2. It is a 3,15 acre ecological ark which is situated an hour north of Tuscon, Arizona. Would you be able to survive living and communicating only with eight people for two years?
Google and NASA are joining forces to create and study Artificial Intelligence. This new breed of super computer could change everything. The Quantum Computer will be programmed to behave like a human and make decisions based on the data it is provided with.
It’s a big world out there and there are discoveries being made every day. The Learning Mind website put together the top 10 most mind-blowing recent space discoveries.
A new exhibition, which opens on Friday June 7, will give its viewers an experience through space and time. Click through to see some of the images.
Read up on this amazing discovery on how champagne may be able to help you fight against brain disorders like Alzheimer’s and Dementia.
Asteroid 1998 EQ2 is 2,7 kilometers long and will make its closest pass to Earth soon. The asteroid is set to fly past Earth on 31 May 2013, in what will be the closest encounter for the asteroid to date.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Scientists at Stanford University have developed a new way of looking at the brain – they make the brain tissue almost transparent.
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.
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”.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
At approximately 14h30 South African time, skydiver Felix Baumgartner will attempt the highest, fastest free fall in history – 37 kilometres above Earth.
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.
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.
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.