Getting shot with a Tesla cannon

In which Matt Inman of The Oatmeal (who is also known to be a huge admirer of Nicola Tesla ) shoots Matt Harding of Where the Hell Is Matt ...

Rubber chicken in space

At the beginning of March, the sun unleashed the most intense radiation storm since 2003. And that's when students at the Bishop Union H...

DIY: How to extract your own DNA

In case you want to see the strands of genetic material you're made of, you can extract them yourself, without any fancy lab equipment. ...

How to synchronize metronomes

Some dude from Lancaster University's Physics Dep. - Nonlinear dynamics and medical physics group demonstrates how you can synchronize o...

Advances in hoverboards

The MegaSurf is the first actual working hoverbooard capable of supporting a human. It was developed by students at the Diderot University, ...

Infographic: Star Trek technology - how far are we from it

Sortable.com takes a look at some of the technology in Star Trek and how close we are today to having that technology in every day life. Vi...

Science video of the day: quantum levitation

This one takes the Insane Clown Posse reference to whole new level. An unidentified member of the [Tel-Aviv University] Superconductivity ...

Glow-in-the-dark dog

Tegon the Beagle has been turned by scientists at Seoul National University in Korea into a freak of nature of sorts. They genetically modif...

NASA's breakthrough discovery

You may have already heard: a new life form has been discovered by NASA. It's not alien life, as some would expect to hear. The basic id...

MRI scanner with built-in bong

If I ever need a brain scan, God forbid, this is how I'll do it. Harvard Scientists Build a Device to Smoke Weed During Brain Scan : Smo...

Vampires - a mathematical impossibility

A physics proffesor at the University of Central Florida came up with this one: Legend has it that vampires feed on human blood and once bit...

Cows With Holes - Holey Cows

Oh my God! Are there holes in those cows? Yes there are. Read more In order to perform experiments on cows, scientists have developed a way ...

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