There is a new and insidious form of malware soon to be on the loose across the world wide web. It is known as Ransomware and it will hold a computer hostage until the ransom to be released has been paid. It has become a huge underground industry and is projected to take in millions …
Scientists at the University of British Columbia are conducting seminars on what they believe are the real zombies that we need to be deathly afraid of. What these scientists are warning about, however, are what they call the zombie parasites that are living in human hosts and may be poised to spread new disease epidemics. …
The existence of energy known as Dark Matter has been one of the pillars that modern day physics has been built upon. Back in the 1990’s, physicists determined that the universe was composed of around 70% of this dark matter and that the universe itself was expanding at a pace never seen before. A recent …
This week, young 13 year old Maanasa Mendu of Ohio won 3M’s prestigious Discovery Education Young Scientist Challenge by inventing a device that creates clean energy. Her entire project and invention only cost her five dollars to make. Young Maanasa can now claim to be the Top Young Scientist in America as well as taking …
The Planet 9 speculation has risen again recently as the Division of Planetary Science had their annual get together last week. Their Planet 9 speculative theory is that there is a ninth planet hiding somewhere behind Pluto. Since Pluto was officially downgraded by Mike Brown, and is no longer considered a planet, that is where …
A new type of bicycle lock has been developed that ends up spraying the potential thieves with a spray that is so noxious that, in the majority of the tests, caused the thieves to vomit without control or to panic and run away. It took Daniel Idzkowski six months to develop the idea and to …
A scientific project has recently bombarded the pyramids at Giza with subatomic particles in an effort to see if the pyramids will toss up any more of its secret passageways and hidden rooms. The ScanPyramid Project is a collaboration between scientists from Japan, Egypt and Canada who are using specially designed muon panels to try …
In a strange twist of experimental events, chemists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Tennessee, accidentally converted carbon dioxide into ethanol fuel. The process they stumbled upon is electrochemical as they used small shafts of copper and carbon to convert the CO2 into the ethanol fuel. Adam Rondinone, lead author on the experiment, said …
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have figure out a way to use what are known as quantum dots to store and release energy from simple panes of glass in windows. The quantum dots, first developed in 2012, are nanometer sized semiconductors that are applied to the glass in a thin film. …
In what could be a huge breakthrough for the treatment of paralysis, German scientists have successfully developed a way for nerve endings and fibers to repair themselves. The team of scientists at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases were able to identify a gene in mice that stops nerve fibers from regenerating and repairing themselves. …
Scientists and researchers have been chasing their dream of building a quantum computer or many years now. Recently, however, a team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, in New Mexico, have managed to link, or bridge, together two quantum computers with a single chip. What they have seemingly managed to do is to join separate …