It seems as if college degrees are not that important to be an inventor rather a cause and motivation is more imperative to conquer the impossible. John Kanzius, a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy, proved the above mentioned point when he...
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It is not natural for a dolphin to survive without a tail. But, the year-old dolphin ‘Winter’ at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida has proved as an exception even after losing one of the very significant part of her anatomy.
Caught in a...
Though many of us believe the whole process of hypnosis as myth and have kicked up controversy for decades, with many researchers thinking that there is really no such thing -- the medical fraternity are taking hypnosis seriously!
That hypnosis...
Most of us are aware of lenses that of the cameras and our eyes, but how many of you have even heard of a lens made from your teeth or even egg shells?! Perhaps none, as such innovative thoughts can only be expected from impertinent and crazy scientists....
While creating something in the laboratory is generally expected to be mimicry, recreation of something natural immediately draws the attention of the concerned fields of application.
Plants have many defense mechanisms to help battle the attack of...
At times, you need to control some of your much desired activities; you otherwise would have not given a second thought for! But, how do you control it? Habit? ‘Self-control’ is not built just out of habit – but is physiologically regulated! Yes,...
The brains’ axons do jobs more than just transmitting information or electrical impulses from one brain cell to the other – it also turns the signals up or down with the right stimulation! -- Does it seem to be defying what we have read in our test...
Next time you visit your physician’s clinic for diagnosis of a casual or recreational activity to serious neurological disorders – like Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease – don’t be surprised if he places some small sensors on your body or...
In a report last month, doctors made an alarming prediction for more than 43 million Americans – they will be developing age-related eye diseases by 2020!
This disturbing statistics is prompting scientists to come up with remedies to the approaching...
A team of Japanese researchers have reported success cloning world’s first fourth generation pig at Tokyo Meiji University.
The findings will solve the complexities involved in successive generation cloning. Scientists believed that genetic material...
Do you reckon the MAG LEV train? The train that operates by magnetic levitation? Well, recently scientists found out how well levitation can be applied to smaller objects. The recently revealed secret might change the future designs of the micro...
A team of HHMI researchers has prompted female mice to behave like male mice in the lab by depriving them of gene called TRPC2, responsible for functioning of pheromones-sensing organ present in nose called the vomeronasal organ.
After researchers...
Did you forget what you had for lunch? Well, all you have to do is study your fingerprint. In a recent development, fingerprint photographs show the substances left on fingertips. This technology lets the experts find everything from caffeine...
Hey! Wish to see all those bizzare characters from the animated animal world in real? Just send a request to the herd of those crazy and impertinent scientists who have already leased a conspiracy to enliven the unusual, entertaining...
While on one hand the world is being alarmingly robbed of its forests, be it by natural calamities or to meet the selfish, merciless ends of humans – on the other, the poor across the world are starving of their forest resources necessary for their daily...
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