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Quadriplegic uses her mind to control her robotic arm.
DARPA robot can traverse an obstacle course.
Genetically modified silk is stronger than steel.
DNA was photographed for the f...
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Albinoism in Animals
Albino Sea Turtles
Albino Koala
Onya-Birri, the only albino koala to be found in captivity born on September 1 1977. His name means ”Ghost Boy” in Australia’s aboriginal language.
Albino Cobra
Despite their lack of pigment their poison is just as toxic as regular cobras.
A...
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn
"I hate science." In six years of graduate school, this has to be the phrase I’ve heard most frequently from my colleagues.
People who have dedicated their lives to science.
People who made a decision when they were about 16 years old to focus on science, who went through four years of under...
A researcher in Russia has made more than 48 million journal articles - almost every single peer-reviewed paper every published - freely available online. And she’s now refus...
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“[Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Michael] Yassa’s research team gave people 100 to 300 milligrams of caffeine after looking at some image...”
Good definition of science fiction: “No, it doesn’t make sense, but it’s internally consistent in the lack of sense it’s making.”
“Without [mental time travel], there would be no planning, no building, no culture; without an imagined picture of the future, our civilizati...”
SCIENCE NEEDS YOUR HELP!
Help! The Los Angeles Science Fair is being cancelled just three weeks before the event due to insufficient funding.
Over 4,000 students have been working diligently since July to compete in this science fair. They are not able to compete in any other counties and will not be able to compete region...
In a recent experiment, students who learned about the struggles and failed experiments of some of the greatest scientists who ever lived got significantly better grades than those...