Scientists have developed a water filtration system that is designed to filter out contaminants, especially salt, from ocean water. The groundbreaking work being done at the University of Illinois may be a major step toward a sea water water filtration system that isn’t all that expensive. Many have been wondering for decades why the United …
On September 7, the 2016 Paralympic Games will be held in Rio de Janeiro and a cyclist, Denise Schindler of Germany, will compete with a prosthetic leg that was created with a 3D printer. It is the first time anyone has competed in the Paralympic Games with a prosthetic that was generated in this way. …
Apparently, it is no longer a secret that sleeping naked is more healthy for you than sleeping with any sort of clothing on. Body temperature, recent research declares, can greatly affect your sleeping mind to the point where just a slight rise in temperature will cause more disturbed sleep. With regard to men, a lower …
Recent research coming out of the University of Auckland, in Australia, has discovered that zinc is able to help the brain cells to communicate more effectively. It has built upon 2013 Japanese research that found zinc to be extremely deficient, even absent, in autistic children. The scientists believe that the zinc could stimulate and change …
A recent study out of the University of Illinois has found that the psychological pain and damage from childhood bullying is longer lasting that may have been previously anticipated. The researchers found that the long term affects of bullying can be as strong as damage done by sexual assault or rape. The research team studied …
A young student of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin won first prize at General Electric’s Unimpossible Innovation Challenge by proving that a bell can, in fact, be unrung. The point of the contest, says GE officials, is to disprove a particular long held belief or idiom using any field of science the contestants …
It is the brain child of inventor and visionary Charles Bombardier of Montreal and it is called the Space Express. When completed, Bombardier claims that the space craft will be able to travel so fast that it will be able to get to Mars in less than 48 hours. He and his research team expect …
Scientists have discovered that the Tasmania Devil population may survive after all. It seems that in the last couple of generations, the creatures have somehow developed a resistance to a highly contagious face cancer that has threatened the species with extinction. Already, about 80% of the animals have disappeared because of the cancer. The amazing …
Scientists have recently discovered that a galaxy the size of the Milky Way galaxy is made up almost entirely of dark matter. The galaxy, known as Dragonfly 44, was originally found back in 2015 and was in a cluster of about one thousand galaxies that are at least 300 light years or so from Earth. …
Even though the technique known as “helicopter parenting” has been proven time and again to be ineffective, it has now been discovered that the concept is irreversible and that no amount of parental demonstrative love and affection can negate the damage it does in the long term. These were the recent findings of a research …