I Wish I Had Had This GPS Bike Tracker When My Bike Got Stolen
BikeSpikeBikeSpikeThe BikeSpike tracks your bike's location and lets you know if it's moved from its parking spot--or even if it's been tampered with. Only five hours left to fund it on Kickstarter....
View ArticleGoogle Searches For Mental Illnesses Increase During The Winter
Verschneite LandschaftWikimedia Commons, TheNoOneA new study suggests seasonal changes have a much bigger impact on mental health than previously thought. Psychiatrists have known about seasonal...
View ArticleAuto-Kitchen Records Everything You Do, For Easy Replication
Cookscan ConceptCarlos Gurpegui, Electrolux Design LabOne entry to an international design competition imagines a way to turn impromptu meals into standard recipes. Whenever I call my mom to ask how to...
View ArticleHow To Crowdsource Astronomy Without People Messing It Up
Four star system A family portrait of the PH1 planetary system that was discovered in part due to crowdsourcing Haven Giguere/Yale via Universe TodayMaybe it's because Jurassic Park is in theaters...
View ArticleHow Popular Tourist Destinations Will Look Submerged In 25 Feet Of Water
Bring a bathing suit, kids, we're going to the Jefferson Memorial. Climate change is going to ruin our vacations. Not only will it likely make our flights more uncomfortable, but our favorite...
View ArticleLaser Camera Makes 3-D Photos Of Objects A Kilometer Away
Pixel By PixelOptics ExpressIt can't quite handle bare flesh, though: not reflective enough. A team of physicists from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh has developed laser technology that can 3-D...
View ArticleScientists Discover Evidence Of Dark Lightning
Dark Lightning Flash Above Earth In this visualization of dark lightning, which is actually invisible, gamma rays are shown in pink. Highlighted in yellow are subatomic particles called positrons that...
View ArticleAfter 30 Years Off The Market, A Morning Sickness Drug Is Making A Comeback
A Cure For Morning SicknessPRNewsFoto/Duchesnay USNauseous pregnant women in the U.S. can finally have access to the morning sickness drug Canadians have been using for years. More than 30 years after...
View ArticleThis Cat Did Not Figure Out How Mirrors Work
It's cute! But not a major step forward for feline cognition. Earlier today, Gawker posted a video of a housecat looking at itself in a mirror, slowly raising one paw and looking with wonder at its own...
View ArticleCan We Smell With Our Hearts?
Smelly Tuna SandwichWikimedia Commons"Ugh, tuna again?" say your blood cells. In the back of your nasal cavity, you have special sensory cells that grab onto the various airborne compounds that...
View ArticleBuilding A Better Bed Bug Trap
Building a better bed bug trap False-colored green trichomes either pierced through the bed bugs' feet (a, b and c) or hooked around them (d) M. Szyndler, C. Loudon/UC IrvineNew research shows that...
View ArticleHow It Works: Honeybee Society
Workforce In The HiveTrevor JohnstonA beehive buzzes with thousands of genetically similar female honeybees. Some nurse their queen and her eggs while others fly out in search of pollen and nectar. For...
View ArticleWhat's The Freest State In America [Infographic]?
The Freest States U.S. states' ranks in level of freedom, as defined in an analysis by George Mason University's Mercatus Center Mercatus Center, George Mason UniversityA new analysis ranks how free...
View ArticleFYI: What Would It Feel Like To Travel At Warp Speed?
Warp SpeedingEverett CollectionIt wouldn't feel like much of anything. If it were really possible to build a warp drive, using it wouldn't make you fly back into your seat as in a science-fiction...
View ArticleNobel Prize Winner And Pioneer Of In Vitro Fertilization Robert G. Edwards...
Robert G. Edwardsvia Cambridge UniversityRobert G. Edwards, a British physiologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2010 for his pioneering work on in vitro fertilization,...
View ArticleYou Built What?!: A Tractor For The Apocalypse
Small and Mighty The LifeTrac isn't big like industrial tractors seen on most farms, but it can pull two tons, lift four, and work anything from a backhoe to a brick press. Courtesy Tristan Copley...
View ArticlePaolo Soleri, Utopian Architect, Is Dead
Paolo SoleriSMOCABut his plan for a 5,000-person, eco-friendly city lives on Paolo Soleri, the futuristic, eco-conscious architect, died yesterday at 93. He is best known among the masses (and in the...
View ArticleNew Exoplanet-Hunting Mission To Launch In 2017
TESS An artist's rendition of TESS in space MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics Research via Universe Today TESS will be the first dedicated all-sky exoplanet hunting satellite. Move over Kepler. NASA...
View ArticleNew Stanford Technique To Make Brains Transparent
A mouse brain before and after it's been made transparent using CLARITYKwanghun Chung and Karl Deisseroth, Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Stanford UniversityA new technique turns mammalian organs...
View ArticleThis Full-Size Helicopter Is Actually A Drone
The next big thing in drones? Bigger drones. The new MQ-8C Fire Scout looks so much like a normal helicopter that it took me two days of wandering the 2013 Sea-Air-Space convention floor to even notice...
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