A team of mechanical engineers from Rice University have won an Ig Nobel Prize for the development of what they are calling ‘necrobotics’, the use of dead organisms for use in mechanical devices, such as mechanized grasping tools made from corpses of dead arachnids. To summon their necrobiotic devices intoread more
Researchers that are making efforts to clarify the data being collected on Antarctic sea ice by satellites using ground-based instruments are reporting that the extent of ice surrounding our southernmost continent has shrunk to a record low, nearly one million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) less than when record keepingread more
Recent research into the possibility that consciousness is a quantum phenomenon has found evidence that nanoscopic structures in our bodies may be capable of sustaining quantum states necessary for such processes to occur. Previous experiments have found that molecular structures in the chlorophyll found in plant cells are capable ofread more
An international team of researchers has uncovered evidence of a massive solar event that occurred near the end of the last ice age that dwarfs any other known solar storm, and was twenty times stronger than the most powerful storm witnessed in modern times, 1859’s Carrington Event. This evidence emergedread more