Inside MIT's Self-Replicating Objects

As with other Self-Assembly Lab projects, including the chair that builds itself we debuted earlier this year, Self-Replicating Spheres is built on customized magnets. When...

Novel Antibody That Efficiently Attacks HIV Virus

The researchers from California Institute of Technology have discovered a new antibody that can make it easier to detect and neutralize HIV virus in an infected patient. Pr...

Pregnant Women World-Wide Need Timely Access to Supplements

Over 32 million pregnant women around the world have anemia every year, a condition that limits the blood’s capacity to transport oxygen to the body’s cells. Th...

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Returns In August

ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Eventually, people with ALS lose the ability to initiate and contr...

Device Pulls Drinkable Water From The Air As You Cycle.

Most bicycles have a place to hold a water bottle. This isn’t most bicycles. Fontus—a device created by Austrian designer Kristof Retezár—takes the...

Engineers Stumble On A Whole New Method Of Laser-Based Spacecraft Propulsion

A team of Chinese physicists has developed a new variety of light-based propulsion system with the ability to harness much greater forces than a conventional solar sail. Th...

This Rat Limb Was Grown In The Lab

The naked little animal arm in this video is no ordinary limb. According to a report by the New Scientist, it’s the world’s first bioengineered rat limb grown i...

Scientists Can Now Transform Blood Cells Into Neurons

Taking a trip to a clinic to give blood has just become a mission with a dual purpose. Scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to take those blood samples and...

VICTIMS, WOMEN & THE LANDED VOICELESS

So here?? the thing!

As I entered home this evening, my housekeeper Leela Lhama opened the door, as usual.

She normally takes my laptop bag from my hand and...