Stimulation of Brain Area Causes Bizarre Face Perception Experience
Ron Blackwell’s hospital visit took an unexpected turn when researchers electrically stimulated a specific part of his brain, causing him to perceive his doctor’s face...
Video: NASA: How Tractor Beams (May) Work
A working tractor beam? In science fiction the idea of a tractor beam, an invisible or at least non-physical energy-based attractive connection, is used as...
World’s Oldest Undeciphered Writing
Unraveling the Enigma of Proto-Elamite: Decoding the Ancient World’s Last Mystery Consider our ancient civilizations, where history whispers through the remnants of clay tablets...
Study May Solve the Mystery of Some Ball Lightning
Unlocking the Secrets of Ball Lightning For centuries, people have reported sightings of mysterious glowing orbs known as ball lightning, typically about the size...
Organism With No Brain Creates External Memories for Navigation
A particular slime mould, Physarum polycephalum (the “many-headed slime”), that has shown promise in mapping ideal routes to minimize energy, and this ability has...
What Might the Ocean Mission to Drill into Earth’s Mantle Release?
The Journey of the Chikyu: A Deep-Sea Exploration Vessel As of 2024, the Japanese deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu is actively engaged in scientific exploration in...
Quantum Causality: When Cause and Effect Coexist
Do you ever get the sense that the future, past, and present are linked in non-linar ways? I wrote a poem in highschool about a...
U of Minnesota Engineers Invent Device to Increase Internet Speeds
About eight years ago in the year 2012, a team of scientists and engineers at the University of Minnesota developed a groundbreaking microscale optical device...
U.S. Military Planned Seizure-Inducing Gun Inspired by Pokemon
The United States military once explored the development of a weapon inspired by a notorious incident from a Japanese children’s cartoon, *Pokemon*. This unusual concept...
‘Melt in the Body’ Electronics A New Medical Frontier
Dissolving Electronics: A New Frontier in Medical Technology Ultra-thin electronics that dissolve inside the body, once a futuristic concept, are now closer to becoming a...