NASA wants to send astronauts to Mars, where the atmosphere is 96% carbon dioxide. An experiment just turned some of that CO2 into oxygen.

I tried a compressed workweek – which had me working 10-hour days for four days per week – and I did not like the unusual schedule. I felt more stress and pressure to outperform the amount of work I usually do in a week, leading me to long for the […]

Previously, I reported on a $US16 “Thinking Egg” advertised on Amazon as a solution to stress and anxiety. I wanted to try it for myself, to see if it could help me balance the stress of a typical 20-something living in New York City. I started out sceptical, but over […]

Scientists at the University of Richmond taught rats how to drive tiny little cars, New Scientist reported. The scientists made a car out of a plastic food container and retrofitted it with an aluminium bar and three copper bars for steering wheels. Scientists trained the rats to drive and steer […]

Japan’s government approved a request for stem-cell experiments meant to create an animal-human hybrid and allow it to be brought to term. The experiment, which still requires approval from the Japanese science ministry, would create animal embryos that contain human cells and transplant them into surrogate animals. According to researchers, […]

Cheesemaker Beat Wampfler has teamed up with researchers from the University of the Arts in Bern to see if music can change the taste of cheese. His Emmentals are being blasted with a mixture of rock, classical, and hip-hop music. They will be tested in the new year to see […]

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