Company Mimics Spiders to Create Lustrous Faux Silk That is 1,000x More Energy Efficient
Mimicking how spiders spins silk, Spintex has created a high performance, biodegradable textile 1,000x more efficient than man-made fabric.
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A Rose Inspired This Design For the Smartest Way to Collect And Purify Water
A new device for collecting and purifying water was inspired by a rose and is a dramatic improvement on current methods.
Google and Harvard Map a Tiny Bit of Our Ridiculously Complex Brain Connections in Unprecedented Detail
Containing 1.4 petabytes and 225 million images, the H01 Dataset from Google and Harvard is the most detailed brain image ever made.
Farmers Now Use Floating Gardens To Keep Crops Alive When it Floods - A Climate Crisis Lesson
Floating Gardens could be a key to keep farming despite climate change, scientists at Ohio State University have found.
See the Strange, Beautiful Landscapes Below the Foliage and Buildings Revealed by Lasers
A LIDAR-image presentation of the geological hazards, features, and changes of Washington state is mesmerizing to look at.
Stress Can Accelerate Grays, But Hair Color Can Be Restored When Stress is Eliminated, Scientists Find
Researchers have found that stress really does turn hairs grey, and the effect is (at least partially) reversible, Columbia researchers find.
Scientists Have Figured Out How to Instantly Cure Hiccups
A special L-shaped drinking straw cures hiccups in 92% of people immediately upon use, and is available for about $15 on Amazon.
Magical Firefly Lights May Seem Random But There's a Different Pattern For Every Species in U.S.
In the Great Smoky Mountains, one species of firefly blinks in synchronicity with its neighbors, creating a "life changing" light show.
Coffee is Now Linked to Reduced Risk of Many Ailments, Including Liver Disease, Parkinson's, Melanoma, Even Suicide
Though it has been classified as a carcinogen in the past, there's no end to the health benefits of coffee, finds review from WS and Harvard
That Song Stuck in Your Head is Helping the Brain With Long-Term Memory
When songs get stuck in your head, they are helping you to remember—according to researchers at University of California-Davis.
If You Want to Master a New Skill Take Plenty of Breaks While Practicing
Scientists discover that the resting brain repeatedly replays compressed memories of what was just practiced
Scientists Design Junk Food Game to Help People Eat Less, Lose Weight - Study Shows it Works
A study from the universities of Exeter and Helsinki shows that a junk food game, available to download, does help people eat less and lose weight.
Scientists Discover a New Brown Species They Named the 'Chocolate Frog' - And it's Adorable
Relative of the Australian green tree frog, which can also be brown, a new species of frog was found in New Guinea called the chocolate frog
The Lifestyle of This Amazonian Tribe May Hold a Key to Healthy Aging
The Tsimane Indigenous people of the Bolivian Amazon experience less brain atrophy than their American and European peers.
Researchers Create AI Device to Sniff Out Cancer in Blood Samples With 95% Accuracy For Hard to Detect Types
An odor-based test from Penn U. sniffs out vapors in blood samples to detect pancreatic or ovarian cancer cells with up to 95% accuracy
'Mind-blowing' Surgery in Mothers' Wombs Spared Dozens of Babies From Spina Bifida Paralysis
At Great Ormond's Street Hospital, 'mind blowing' surgery in the womb has been saving dozens of babies from spina bifida paralysis.
If You're Anxiously Awaiting News, Do This One Thing to Feel at Ease - Researchers Say
Research from the University of California - Riverside shows the mental health and wellness benefits of experiencing awe.
Five Million Years of Climate Change Found Preserved in One Location
A tall sedimentary cliff in Charyn Canyon has provided the missing link for understanding global climate over the past 5 million years.
Flying Squirrel as Big As a Cat Discovered in Himalayas, 'One of the least known mammals on Earth'
A reexamination of one of the world's rarest mammals finds it's actually three distinct species, that like in the Himalayas, and Yunnan.
The Weirdness Of Dreams May Be Why We Have Them, Says New Theory of Dreaming
A new theory about dreaming has been published by researchers writing for Cell Press: the reason for dreaming may in fact be their weirdness.
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