Is It Better To Run Or Walk In The Rain To Stay Dry?
When you’re stuck in the rain with no umbrella, raincoat, or strange protective forcefield of air, should you tell yourself “It’s just water!”, and resign yourself to a brisk walk, …
Category: Science
This Is What Humans Will Look Like in 1,000 Years
About 10,000 years ago, humans evolved a tolerance to cow’s milk; over the past 150 years, we’ve added 10 centimetres to our average height; and over the past 65 years, …
Researchers Just 3D Printed The First-Ever Complete Heart Using Human Tissue
In what the Israeli media is calling a “world’s first,” scientists at Tel Aviv University have 3D printed a small heart using human tissue that includes vessels, collagen, and biological …
This Is The First-Ever Image Of The Event Horizon Of A Black Hole
In April 2017, eight radio telescopes around the globe all turned to look in the same direction. Their goal was an ambitious one: to image the shadow of the event …
This 29-Year-Old Computer Scientist Helped Bring Us The First Image of a Black Hole
Katherine Bouman had a secret: An algorithm she’d developed had stitched together a picture of a black hole. She told nobody except her colleagues. Until today. That’s when Event Horizon …