This week in “What has science done?” comes the pooping robot.
Before you ask, yes, the robot actually does ingest matter and excretes it out. Scientists working at the Bristol...
Have you ever asked yourself "Where am I?" "What am I?" "Who am I?"; Have you ever just stopped to ask "where is the universe?"
As Robert Lanza, M.D. of Wake Forest has...
Arachnophobia; the fear of spiders. Most people are afraid of these little guys for varying reasons; some are poisonous and some are just creepy looking. However, these 8-legged ar...
Twitter can be a magical place full of 140-character bites of wisdom. It can also be an idiotic place full of incomprehensible jibberish being passed off as worthwhile. Science has...
In an effort to broaden the scope of content and presenters at their conference next year, TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) announced that they'll be holding public auditi...
You can do a lot with your smartphones. You can get directions, pay your bills, watch movies, play games, browse through dinner recipes. It's an endless list that everybody could p...
I think we can all agree that cockroaches are pretty gross. Science has always stuck up for the disgusting vermin and are once again championing the little guys as the first step t...
Finally, we will likely have the chance to eat test-tube meat. Soon!
Wait, what? That grosses you out? Hah, really? C'mon! It's only shmeat: lab-grown in vitro meat, and it's no...
This is probably one of the most miraculous things you will ever see or even hear about in your life. There's not much I can say about it without revealing myself to be an ignoramu...
With the ETA of the workday's end inching closer, here's your feel-good story to ferry you into the weekend:
Samantha Garvey, a 17-year-old high school senior in Long Island, N...
The first mixed-embryo monkeys were born yesterday, and this is a major stepping stone in medical research. The monkeys were born in a lab in Western Oregon by the combining cells...
I usually live by the 8-leg rule. If an animal has less than 8 legs, it's fine - it doesn't freak me out. Starting with spiders, my fear exponentially increases based on the numb...