Researchers at Duke University have given lab rats the ability to ‘see’ infrared light, in research published in Nature Communications last week.
The story was reported widely as the rats getting ...
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Does any of your medication get washed away through the water system? If so, your medication could lead to aquatic life having a very exhilarating day indeed.
Research from Umeå University, ...
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Everyone has heard of the inkjet printer, you probably have one yourself. However, one application of the venerable office supply you haven’t heard of is printing drugs, recently developed at ...
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Condoms have been around for quite a while now, allowing men all around the world to awkwardly fumble and pretend they know what they’re doing. The design has actually been ...
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Blowing bubbles from soapy water has been a favourite past time for all of us. Struggling as we try to catch them before the breeze takes them higher and higher ...
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The radius of a proton has generally been considered to be 0.87 femtometers (fm), an incredibly tiny amount. However, a paper published in Science earlier this year suggests this miniscule ...
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Inside every cell, tiny biological machines are hard at work, constructing the proteins that will perform vital roles as enzymes, hormones, and a wide variety of other structural and biochemical ...
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he effects of a stroke can be devastating, with the initial loss of blood supply to part of the brain setting in motion a series of biochemical events called the ...
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Love is a many-splendored thing, according to experts. As someone who considers themselves a scientist and, depending on how many glasses of wine I have had, someone who has been ...
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The pill has been letting women grab life by the balls instead of washing those of unwanted children for over 50 years. Roughly 100 million women worldwide take the pill ...
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