The natural genetic instability of HIV is this organism’s best weapon. By generating mutations and increasing its diversity, the virus is able to fool its host’s immune system and has made the formulation of a vaccine so far impossible.…
The brainiacs over Texas A&M University (Remember the movie “Drumline”?) has made a huge breakthrough in affordable DNA scanning technology that rivals the accuracy of larger lab machines.
The device has no moving parts and costs just $10 to
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A recent study from scientists at Stanford University, California, USA, reveals that younger people are more afraid of losing than the older generations. Could this simply confirm that wisdom of age is a reality? In any case, functional magnetic…
Black holes are collapsed stars with a gravitational pull such that nothing – not even light – can escape once a certain threshold, known as the event horizon, has been passed. They can only be observed indirectly by the…
For those who saw the 1959 movie Voyage To The Center Of The Earth, with the scene where the protagonists take a walk in a forest of 7-foot tall mushrooms, this will not come as a big surprise. However,…
Dogs can sniff someone’s “olfactive signature” and somehow smell that you’re coming home even before you’ve entered the door. They can also determine when you’re ill and know how to “treat their human” in such situations. Vince Rotello and…
A scientific technician at the University of Western Australia’s Institute of Agriculture has developed a new way to make seamless dresses by using the by-product of wine fermentations that went wrong. The project, called Micro’be’, is using…
Although in real life, Superman is merely fictional, it appears that one element from his world IS real. Researchers have unearthed an element that bears an uncanny resemblance to the make up of the green rock from the movie…
In the race to make solar energy both cheaper and more efficient, researchers at the Wake Forest University of North Carolina have found a new process to create plastic solar cells that capture more sunlight. Silicon-based solar cells had…
Planets form around a star from what is known as an accretion disk, made of gas and dust. These younger, cooler stars are however in danger of having their nascent planets boiled off if they happen to be too…
Just when we thought us humans were the “crème-de-la-crème” of evolution, new research indicates that chimps have undergone more selective mutations than Homosapiens since they parted from their common ancestor some 6 million years ago. Judging from the behavior…
One of NASA’s most complex measurement satellites has confirmed that Einstein was right all along: massive objects do distort the fabric of time and space. This ‘geodetic’ effect may only be part of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, but these…
