Japanese scientists at Kyoto University plan to have a fully functional mammoth up and running within 5 years. Those things don’t eat meat, do they? Just sayin’…
For the cloning to go forward, Dr. Iritani will need a number of …
Japanese eggheads have determined that a 2007 dust storm that sprang up in China circled the globe in a mere 13 days – which is impressive, moreseo when you consider that a single concentrated mass of dust particles was able …
Why glowing dogs, you ask? Well – it seems that this is really just a proof-of-concept test drive, if you will – proving that genes can be successfully impanted to produce ‘transgenic’ offspring…presumably with traits that are a little more …
Not straight away, mind you. It has to be REALLY HOT. And you have to drink it right after you pour it. And then you have to wait until you get esophogeal cancer from drinking lots of really hot tea …
Smoking minus the nicotine seems like non-alcoholic beer to me – what’s the point? I’m not a smoker (or a drinker, for that matter) but I don’t see the purpose in indulging in a vice unless it’s bad for you. …
The first thing I thought of when I read this was Paprika, the hallucinatory anime film from Satoshi Kon – but I’m nerdy that way.
Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly …
When I was a kid I used to love reading about all things Fortean – particularly cryptozoological phenomenon. Things like Bigfoot and the Yeti fascinated me, and to this day I’m totally unnerved when swimming in natural bodies of water …
So what we have here is some sort of remote robot-control rig designed for guiding the movements of a remote android – which will soon grow tired of being tethered to its’ wi-fi leash and turn on its’ creators in …
Usually when someone asks me to name a single product of space research that affects them, I blurt out ‘Tang!’ Now I can finally trump that argument with ‘Space Beer!’
The Sapporo brewing company in Japan is cooking up a …
Are the Chinese close to cracking a new form of space-propulsion that will put them at the forefront of the new Space Race, or is it just a bunch of scientific propaganda?
Chinese researchers claim they’ve confirmed the theory behind …
….and, fuuuuck that. I have serious acrophobia problems. Like – can’t climb ladders acrophobia problems. There’s no way I’m getting in an elevator that rockets you 20,000+ miles off the ground. Nuh uh. No. Fucking. Way.
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Looks like all the fearmongering regarding the operation of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has finally borne fruit. Inspired by numerous reports that the ginormous particle accelerator could potentially jump-start black holes which would then consume the planet, 16-year-old Chayya Lal …
