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This Tiny, Inexpensive Microchip Can Diagnose Diabetes Instantaneously

Stanford researchers recently published work on a small microchip they’ve developed that scans for diabetes in a fraction of the time of current tests. Additionally, their test is reusable for upwards of 15 patients, can be performed on site, and is more accurate in differentiating the biomarkers that distinguish type 1 and type 2 diabetes.…

Health Eric Rydin

Animals Shaped the Evolution of Colorful Fruits

Fruits can get their colors from a lot of places. New research suggests that the color preferences of the animals that eat fruit are among the strongest influences on fruit color. It’s an assumption scientists have always made, but now they have some evidence to support it. It has long been thought that part of…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

Scientists Use World’s Largest Laser To Recreate Jupiter’s Core

It is not pleasant inside the core of Jupiter—or any other planet for that matter. However, gaining a better understanding of what’s going on in there is key for understanding how these planets form. That’s why a team of scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recently used diamonds and lasers to recreate those very conditions.…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes

Pangolins Walk Just Like T. Rex

Pangolins, or Scaly Anteaters, are fascinating creatures. The eight pangolin species are found in Africa and parts of Asia, and they’re the only mammals whose skin is covered in scales. The scales, which harden as a pangolin ages, are made of keratin. The substance is found in human skin as well, but is best known…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

How Quantum Mechanics Explains Global Warming

We all know that carbon dioxide is contributing to the warming of our planet but… how, exactly? In this video, Lieven Scheire explains how quantum mechanics holds the answer. Don’t worry, though: he starts off slow, using the physics of rainbows and light bulbs to describe how gases can absorb light—and why, in the case…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

How the Internet Is Helping a Father Fight an Illness Unknown to Science

In 2012, Matt Might sat down to write a blog post. The 5,000-word essay titled “Hunting Down My Son’s Killer,” which was also republished on Gizmodo, documented his and his wife’s harrowing attempt to make sense of their son’s mysterious illness. The post went viral online—setting the family down a road that could change medical…

Health Sarah Zhang

Predatory Birds Remind Us That Inside, They’re 100% Dinosaur

Watch this Great Blue Heron stalk, snatch, and swallow a gopher and you’ll get a sense of how terrifying it must have been to be a small prehistoric proto-mammal just trying to survive without getting gobbled up by a dinosaur. Also: OMG you can still see the gopher wriggling around as it moves down the…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

This Is the Most Detailed Map of Mars’s Surface Ever Made

Ever wondered how you might navigate your way across the surface of Mars, if you ever find yourself there? Well, perhaps you could use this: the most detailed map of the Red Planet’s geology ever made. The map compiles 16 years’ worth of observations from four orbiting spacecraft—Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Express and…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

Shark Week Doubles Down On Its Lies

Last week, Youtube user “Fisher86” posted what appeared to be a video shot with a camera phone of a shark in Lake Ontario. It resulted in mainstream news coverage and official government warnings. It was all a hoax created to drum up interest in Shark Week. And to scare people. It took Discovery Channel a…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

Here’s What Happens To Snakes In Microgravity

In honor of World Snake Day, which is today, here’s what happens when you put a bunch of snakes on a plane…for science. Most animals perceive the weightlessness of microgravity as if they were falling upside down. If you drop a cat from a great height, for example, it will roll over to attempt to…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

DARPA’S Turning to Bezos and Branson For Help Building Its Spaceplanes

We’ve known about DARPA’s plan to build a reusable, unmanned space plane for quite some time, but the agency just announced the companies that will help. Unsurprisingly, two feature famous billionaires who love space. DARPA awarded contracts to Boeing, Masten Space Systems, and Northrop Grumman to lead the first phase of its Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1)…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes

Biologists Have Finally Realized That Animals Don’t Live in Flatland

Animals live their lives in three dimensions. By incorporating data from the third, vertical dimension – elevation, altitude, or depth – scientists can finally have a more accurate understanding of how animals move. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions was an 1884 parable written to satirize the hierarchies of Victorian culture, but it also provides…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

This Machine Generates Electricity From Humidity

This silver cube looks like it belongs on a spaceship—but actually, it’s way more exciting than that. In fact, it can create electricity from humidity, as water condenses on its internal surfaces. It may sound implausible, but in fact it exploits the physics of a finding made at MIT last year: when water droplets spontaneously…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Treetop Camera Traps Catch Animals In Their Most Candid Moments

Most of the world’s photographs are taken between zero and six feet from the ground. Wildlife biologists love their camera traps, and one group finally decided to place some in the trees of a tropical rainforest, nearly 90 feet high. Here’s what they found. In Peru, a strip of rainforest was mowed down recently for…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

See How the First Moon Photos Are Being Recovered In an Old McDonald’s

Earlier this year, the internet was collectively tickled at the reports of how NASA was conducting the recovery of some of the first photos of the mooninside an abandoned McDonald’s. This new video takes a closer look at how this surreal research lab came to be. The doc comes our way from the Carnegie Museum…

Space & Spaceflight Michael Hession

Shame Bathroom Slobs That Don’t Wash Their Hands With This DIY Alarm

Here’s the deal: If you use a public bathroom for any reason, you need to wash your hands before you leave. Don’t try and debate it, don’t get defensive, just do it, or else you might be publicly shamed by this DIY alarm that lets everyone know your hands are probably a cesspool of disgusting.…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Heart Rate Monitoring Car Seats Keep You From Drifting Off

Instead of finding ways to help reduce stress, long hours at work, and other contributing factors to our increasing levels of fatigue, researchers have just accepted the fact that we’re all perpetually tired, and are instead focusing their efforts on ensuring we don’t fall asleep at the wheel. And the latest innovation for preventing that…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Why Do We Have Blood Types, Anyway?

More than a century after their discovery, we still don’t really know what blood types are for. Do they really matter? When my parents informed me that my blood type was A+, I felt a strange sense of pride. If A+ was the top grade in school, then surely A+ was also the most excellent…

Health Carl Zimmer - Mosaic

High Speed Footage Reveals The Alien Mechanics of Fish Feeding

How do you eat if you don’t have any teeth? Combine an independently moving jaw with a delicate, refined use of the principles of fluid dynamics and you’ve got a perfect hunting mechanism. If you’re like me, you haven’t spent all that much time thinking about how fish eat, but it’s pretty incredible. The super…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

Astronomers Invent New Telescope by Tying Telephoto Lenses Together

A team of Yale astronomers got a little crafty recently. In an attempt to see parts of space that their big fancy telescopes weren’t showing them, they tied eight telephoto lenses together to create their own little homemade array. And then, thanks to their new invention, they quickly discovered seven new galaxies. “These are the…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes

This Tiny, Inexpensive Microchip Can Diagnose Diabetes Instantaneously

Animals Shaped the Evolution of Colorful Fruits

Scientists Use World’s Largest Laser To Recreate Jupiter’s Core

Pangolins Walk Just Like T. Rex

How Quantum Mechanics Explains Global Warming

How the Internet Is Helping a Father Fight an Illness Unknown to Science

Predatory Birds Remind Us That Inside, They’re 100% Dinosaur

This Is the Most Detailed Map of Mars’s Surface Ever Made

Shark Week Doubles Down On Its Lies

Here’s What Happens To Snakes In Microgravity

DARPA’S Turning to Bezos and Branson For Help Building Its Spaceplanes

Biologists Have Finally Realized That Animals Don’t Live in Flatland

This Machine Generates Electricity From Humidity

Treetop Camera Traps Catch Animals In Their Most Candid Moments

See How the First Moon Photos Are Being Recovered In an Old McDonald’s

Shame Bathroom Slobs That Don’t Wash Their Hands With This DIY Alarm

Heart Rate Monitoring Car Seats Keep You From Drifting Off

Why Do We Have Blood Types, Anyway?

High Speed Footage Reveals The Alien Mechanics of Fish Feeding

Astronomers Invent New Telescope by Tying Telephoto Lenses Together

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