Soon You’ll Be Able to Turn Your Brown Eyes Blue for $5,000
Procedure not approved in U.S… yet.
Tag: Science & Technology
NASA Research Suggests Mars Once Had More Water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean
Water would have formed an ocean occupying almost half of Mars’ northern hemisphere…
Mars had a huge ocean billions of years ago
Most experts agree that the planet had some liquid water at some point.
‘Pee power’: UK university trials electricity generating toilet
“…in effect, a system which taps a portion of that biochemical energy used for microbial growth, and converts that directly into ‘urine-tricity.'”
Ebola vaccine tests to begin in Guinea: WHO
VSV-EBOV and CAd3 are also being tested in Liberia.
Ancient ‘lost city’ found deep in jungles of Honduras
Ancient civilization so unknown it doesn’t even have a name.
Old and Dusty Galaxies Grew Up Stunningly Fast, Say Experts
Young galaxy surprises astronomers by looking very old.
Military satellite explodes above Earth
Satellite had been in orbit since 1995.
Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links
The trustworthiness of a web page might help it rise up Google’s rankings if the search giant starts to measure quality by facts, not just links.
Study: Universe May Have Had No Beginning At All
“Our theory suggests that the age of the universe could be infinite…”
Why your smartphone records everything you say to it
Voice commands issued to smartphones are being recorded and stored.
Scientists Find a Black Hole 12 Billion Times More Massive Than the Sun
It remains a mystery how black holes could have grown so huge in such short time.
Selfie from NASA Mars Rover Shows Wide Context
Scene combines dozens of images taken during January 2015.
Black Death now blamed on giant gerbils from Asia, not rats
Rats, long believed to be the scourge that brought the Black Death to 14th-century Europe, may not be the disease-bearing scoundrels we thought they were. Scientists have shifted blame for the medieval pandemic responsible for millions of deaths to a new furry menace: giant gerbils from Asia. “Climate-driven outbreaks of Yersinia petis in Asian rodent […]
Mummified Monk Sits Inside Ancient Buddha Statue
Internal organs had been removed and replaced with scripts covered in Chinese writing.