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Big Pic: Mushrooms Make Wind To Send Spores Flying
The spores released by an Amanita form a cloud of bright little specks. Patrick Hickey Mushrooms produce spores in order to reproduce and spread their mushroomy goodness throughout the land—or at...
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Elderly Spaniards Can Get Medical Checkups Via Kinect
Woman Uses TEKI System Screenshot from "Teki Kinect Accenture Osakidetza English.mp4" by palomito97 on YouTube In Spain's Basque Country, some of the oldest residents are getting the newest...
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Occipital Structure Sensor
Occipital Structure Sensor Sam Kaplan The Structure is the easiest way to digitize the world. The iPad-mountable 3-D scanner uses diffracted laser light to create a depth map, which it can merge with...
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How Scientists Could Watch Brain Chemicals Through The Skull
Neurons Nick Kaloterakis Researchers have discovered a way to see chemicals at work behind bone. In the future, they hope to develop their technique as a way of watching chemical messages as they blip...
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Software Puts Together A Playable Score From Historical Music Manuscripts
From a Drawing of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Playing with His Father and Sister, by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle Just as books come in different editions, so do historical pieces of music. Different...
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Brunton Hydrogen Reactor
Brunton Hydrogen Reactor Sam Kaplan A single Hydrogen Reactor cartridge carries a week’s worth of smartphone power—more juice than any other portable source. When a user inserts one of the 3-inch...
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Can Red Wine Really Heal Cancer And Prolong Your Life?
Red Wine The health benefits of resveratrol, a compound found in the skin of grapes (and thus in red wine), have long been known. Studies have indicated that it serves as an antioxidant, that it has...
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Nonprofit Sends Free Kits Of Potential Malaria Cures To Researchers
Killed Mosquitoes about to Undergo a Lab Analysis for Diseases, 1976 CDC/ James Stewart All you have to do is write in. A nonprofit malaria research organization, the Medicines for Malaria Venture, is...
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The Microbiome and the Future of Artisanal Gastronomy
Earlier this week, the media caught the stinky wind of a rather unique art exhibit at the Dublin Science Gallery. Called SELFMADE, the installation featured a number of cheeses made by a variety of...
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FYI: Why Doesn't Plan B Work For Heavier Women?
Front and Back of a Tablet of Plan B One-Step, an Emergency Contraceptive Pillbox, U.S. National Library of Medicine If you're a lady—or even if you're not—you might have heard already. Mother...
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Big Pic: The Subarctic Lakes Of Canada Are Drying Up
Desiccated lakes in Wapusk National Park near Churchill, Manitoba (Canada) Hilary White The East Coast may be getting a little damp at the moment, but the subarctic region of Canada has seen a...
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The Physics Of Making Someone's Beer Foam Over
Tapped Beer Acts Like This Cold mud pots in Fort Bragg, California Mendo Mann on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0I had actually never seen this before, but maybe that's because I don't hang out with...
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Google Glass
Google Glass Sam Kaplan When the Google Glass concept debuted in June 2012, it became one of the most anticipated gadget launches ever—rivaling the first iPhone. For all intents and purposes, Project...
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FYI: How Much Weight Can You Gain From Thanksgiving Dinner?
Preparing To Chow Down Superstock/Getty Images Postprandial weight gain is all a matter of timing. In the short term—I mean the very short term—any food and drink that you put into your body will make...
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Sandia National Laboratories Non-Detonable Fertilizer
Sandia National Laboratories Non-Detonable Fertilizer Sandia National Laboratories In 2012, ammonium nitrate fertilizer was used in about 65 percent of the 16,300 IEDs found in Afghanistan. Engineer...
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Pat's Backcountry Beverages Pale Rail
Pat's Backcountry Beverages Pale Rail Pat's Backcountry Beverages Much to the lament of most hikers, beer is too heavy to schlep into the backcountry. Pat’s beer concentrate solves this problem...
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The 8 Greatest GIFs Of BigDog In Action
A Pair Of Robots On A Stroll The LS3, a robotic pack-mule developed by Boston Dynamics, is the latest bot to be greeted with ubiquitous Terminator quips. Boston Dynamics The BigDog family of robots,...
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Deciwatt GravityLight
Deciwatt GravityLight GravityLight By taking advantage of an immutable force, the GravityLight may be the most reliable electric light source of all. A person simply lifts a 22-pound bag of ballast up...
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Philips Hue
Philips Hue Philips How many electricians does it take to install a smart lighting system? Zero—if it’s the Hue. Homeowners just need to screw in the multicolor LED bulbs, connect a wireless hub to...
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