Australia’s national science agency is trying to make amends for a gap in its research — dragons. Sophia Lester, 7, of Queensland wrote the scientists when her parents couldn’t fulfill her request for one of the mythical fire breathers. “Hello Lovely Scientist my name is Sophie and I am 7 years old,” her letter began. “My dad told me about ...
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Yellowj/Shutterstock.com A steroid hormone identified by French researchers could allow people to take medicinal cannabis without the behavioral effects, and could also help people addicted to marijuana, according to a study published in the journal Science. A naturally occurring hormone acts as spontaneous defense in the brain against the high caused by marijuana and could be useful in preventing addiction, ...
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If you were to ask 100 people to pick the single greatest superhero power or sci-fi technology, time travel would almost certainly win. And believe it or not, time travel isn’t entirely outside the realm of reality — for some unified theories of the universe, such as general relativity, traveling in time is actually fairly easy. That’s why two American researchers ...
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New Scientist/via YouTube Scientists have made tiny remote-controlled sperm robots, according to research published in the journal Advanced Materials. Scientists in Germany say they have created remote-controlled sperm biobots using magnets. These swimming “spermbots” are made by catching individual sperm cells in metal nanotubes, New Scientist reported. RELATED: SPERM SWIM BETTER IN WINTER, EARLY SPRING: STUDY The teeny-tiny magnetic tubes, ...
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