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Exoskeleton Helps Paralyzed Student Walk For His Graduation
Austin Whitney is paralyzed from the waist down. He graduated this spring from UC Berkley. Also, he did something doctors told him he'd never be able to do. Walk.
Read More »Earth Shoots 50-Mile-High Jets of Lightning in Retaliation Against Space
Jets of lighting can shoot upward toward space, and reach distances 50 miles above the Earth's surface. Harness this and we have a pretty sweet anti-everything weapon.
Read More »Dark Energy Exists and Its Tearing the Universe Apart
No one can actually see it. No one knows what it is or how it works. But, after a five-year study of 200,000 galaxies, scientists are as certain as they'll ever be that dark energy exists, and it is tearing our universe apart.
Read More »Shell to Build Largest Object Ever to Float On Water
Shell just one upped Dick Cheney and all his fracking, they're going to build the largest man-made floating object EVER.
Read More »Amazing Bionic Hand
Last year a young Austrian man named Patrick was the first person in the world to choose to have his hand amputated, and fitted with a bionic replacement. The results are impressive.
Read More »Can Planets Be Orphans Too?
The astronomers, led by Takahiro Sumi if Osaka University in Japan, reported in the journal Nature there are hundreds of billions of planets that have been orphaned by their planetary systems. The planets have either been completely ejected out of orbit, meandering through space, or are distantly bound to their stars at a distance at least 10 times that of the Earth's distance from the Sun.
Read More »Worm Regenerates Entire Body From Single Cell
Researchers at MIT and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have discovered it takes only a single cell to rebuild a fully functioning flatworm.
Read More »Diamonds: Hard as Aerogel
Diamonds are as useful as they are beautiful. They coat our blades, sharpen our tools, and convince women way out of our league to marry us. Researchers have now managed to construct a diamond aerogel 40 times as dense as air.
Read More »Nocturnal Dinosaurs May Have Been a Thing That Existed
Researchers at UC-Davis believe that there are a number of species of ancient dinosaur that were nocturnal, meaning they spent their conscious hours at night.
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