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How to Make Your Own Anti-Venom without Poisoning a Horse

# 2013-05-17 13:00:00, Gizmodo
The Iocane Powder trick really does work! As this slick educational short from the SciShow explains, you've got two choices when it comes to treating deadly, deadly snake bites: you can either hopefully make it to a hospital in time to counter the toxins with dozens of expensive vials of delicate a...

Earth's Atmosphere Is Slowly Escaping Into Space

# 2013-05-17 10:20:00, Gizmodo
Take a deep breath. You're lucky to be able to. Without a handy blanket of atmosphere gases to swaddle us all, we'd be no more than a twinkle in evolution's eye. But that wonderful blanket of gas is slowly escaping, molecule by molecule, and there's not much we can do about it.Read more...

These Aren't Flowers

# 2013-05-17 01:55:00, Gizmodo
These little things look exactly like flowers—and that's because they're meant to. But in real life you'd never be able to spot them, because they are in fact microscopic crystals grown on the surface of a razor blade.Read more...

This 3D Picture Was Created Without a Camera

# 2013-05-17 00:51:18, Gizmodo
Imagine taking a picture, without a camera. If that sound ridiculous, it's because it is—but it's also exactly what a team of researchers from the University of Glasgow, UK, have been doing.Read more...

MIT crafts analog circuits from living bacteria

# 2013-05-16 12:37:00, Engadget
Previous work on using organisms as circuitry has usually involved shoehorning parts of the digital world into a very analog environment. MIT has just found an approach that uses the subtlety of the natural world to its advantage: the circuits themselves are analog. By combining genes that prod...

This Subterranean Telescope May Have Just Seen Humanity's First Cosmic Neutrino

# 2013-05-16 05:55:49, Gizmodo
Catching a glimpse of even regular neutrinos—low-energy particles generated in the atmosphere—is difficult enough, but spotting a "cosmic neutrino" left over from the Big Bang has been downright impossible. That is until this cubic kilometer buried under Antartica's frozen wastes started looking...

Oldest Water Cache Ever Discovered May Hold 1.5 Billion-Year-Old Life

# 2013-05-16 05:33:00, Gizmodo
After kindly asking a group of Canadian miners for a sample of some water they'd struck, a team of scientists who had been investigating similar finds discovered that the fluid they were looking at may have been sealed up for 1.5 billion years.Read more...

How Lasers May Have Revealed a Legendary Lost City of Gold

# 2013-05-16 04:54:00, Gizmodo
One year ago, a team of researchers traveled deep into the Honduran rainforest in search of Ciudad Blanca, the legendary lost city of treasures. Yesterday, they revealed images—uncovered by lasers—of structures that they believe to be the White City itself.Read more...

OLPC working on XO laptop telescope and microscope peripherals (hands-on)

# 2013-05-15 17:55:00, Engadget
So much of what children are taught in the sciences amounts to abstractions. It's a shame, really -- concepts of the universe are so much easier to extrapolate when we can see them for ourselves. OLPC's looking to give the classrooms it serves more access to the very big and very small with two ...

What Your Body Will Do in the Next 30 Seconds

# 2013-05-15 13:00:00, Gizmodo
You might think 30 seconds is pretty short. Your body doesn't though. In order to keep everything running, there's a lot of things going on in those 30 seconds. Like you'll make 72 million red blood cells! And shed 174,000 skin cells! And have 25 thoughts. The human body, what a wonderful thing. [Bu...

A Human Stem Cell Has Been Cloned For the First Time

# 2013-05-15 10:55:00, Gizmodo
Almost two decades ago, scientists succeeded in cloning Dolly the sheep. Now, the same process has been allowed scientists to clone embryonic stem cells from fetal human skin cells for the very first time. There are no more barriers between us and creating human clones.Read more...

Watch a Caterpillar Transform Into a Butterfly From Inside the Cocoon

# 2013-05-15 10:08:22, Gizmodo
If you ever stared at a chrysalis as a kid, patiently waiting for a beautiful new butterfly to emerge, you were probably left wondering just what was going on inside there. Was the caterpillar reconfiguring itself like a Transformer? Was it morphing like a Terminator? Nobody knows—except now ever...

How Dinky Feathers Helped Running Dinosaurs Evolve Into Flying Birds

# 2013-05-14 11:40:00, Gizmodo
If you're a believer in science, you're probably at least vaguely aware that prevailing theories posit that the birds of today are distant relatives to the dinosaurs that died off millions of years ago.Read more...

Burger built in lab costs $325,000 to produce, 'tastes reasonably good'

# 2013-05-13 11:42:00, Engadget
Dr. Mark Post of the University of Maastricht has carefully cultivated the most expensive burger you will probably never eat. Using stem cells and the science of tissue engineering, Post and his team have developed a method for creating an edible product called in-Vitro meat, which they hope to ...

A New Vaccine Eats Cocaine "Like Pac-Man" to Kick Addiction

# 2013-05-13 10:20:00, Gizmodo
Cocaine addictions, which carry a notoriously high relapse rate, may have finally met their match in the form of a simple, long lasting booster vaccine. Read more...

Why Is Science Behind a Paywall?

# 2013-05-13 09:40:00, Gizmodo
Scientists’ work follows a consistent pattern. They apply for grants, perform their research, and publish the results in a journal. The process is so routine it almost seems inevitable. But what if it’s not the best way to do science? Read more...

The Tiny Seahorse's Tail Could Help Create A New Type of Armor

# 2013-05-13 06:20:00, Gizmodo
Seahorses are amazing little creatures—the males give birth, they swim upright and they're incredibly adorable. But did you know that the seahorse is one of the toughest little creatures on our tiny little world? In recent tests, researchers have found that the tail of the underwater equine can be...

How Human Evolution Prepared Us to Survive Future Disasters

# 2013-05-13 06:00:00, Gizmodo
We may be in the early stages of a disaster so profound that it could kick off a mass extinction. Does that mean humanity is doomed? No. Scientific evidence suggests that humans will survive. Find out why, in this excerpt from Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive A Mass Extinction.R...

What Would Be Different About A Baby Born In Space?

# 2013-05-12 09:00:00, Gizmodo
Astronauts are usually pretty busy while they're off planet so there hasn't been a lot of time to, um, look into this stuff, but it's unclear whether humans can procreate in weightless conditions. Apparently, you can't just march into space like you own it and do whatever you want.Read more...

Inhabitat's Week in Green: Darth Vader lamp, 3D-printed inchworm and a cheap invisibility cloak

# 2013-05-12 04:00:00, Engadget
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. As scientists and renewable-energy developers continue to make advances in solar and wind technology, it's becoming more apparent than ever that clean en...

Barns Are Red Because of How Stars Explode

# 2013-05-11 07:08:00, Gizmodo
We all know that barns are usually red. But why? Well, the answer is a little more complicated than you might think, but basically it's because of nuclear fusion. Read more...

University of Georgia stops plant photosynthesis to generate solar power

# 2013-05-10 22:03:00, Engadget
There's a more efficient way to harvest energy from the backyard than by wiring up hapless critters. Researchers at the University of Georgia have proof: they've discovered a way to generate electricity from plants through hijacking the photosynthesis process. By altering the proteins inside a p...

What Exactly Is Multiple Sclerosis?

# 2013-05-09 00:29:00, Gizmodo
This month, many countries the world over will be helping spread awareness of Multiple Sclerosis—but what exactly is the disease? This video, by ASAP Science, helps explain.Read more...

Goddammit, We Still Can't Cure Alzheimer's Disease

# 2013-05-08 13:24:00, Gizmodo
Last summer, a promising trial of a new antibody treatment was shown to totally stop cognitive decline in four Alzheimer's patients over the course of three years, giving researchers hope that the disease could be slowed or even cured. This year, it was expanded into a double blind placebo test and ...

Virus-based sensors find superbugs in minutes, may lead to safer surfaces

# 2013-05-08 10:53:00, Engadget
Viruses usually have to be rendered inert to work in humanity's favor, as anyone who has received a flu shot can attest. Auburn University has bucked that trend by discovering a way to put active viruses to work in not only diagnosing sickness, but in preventing it in the first place. It's using...

Holy Hell, This Is How Football Helmets Are Concussion Safety-Tested

# 2013-05-07 08:20:00, Gizmodo
In a new study published today in the Journal of Neurosurgery, a group of scientists proved, seemingly, that modern football helmets are better than old leather ones. Thanks, guys. What is more notable, however, is that this batshit crazy device is how the data was gathered. Read more...

We Still Use the Same Words We Did 15,000 Years Ago

# 2013-05-07 03:18:40, Gizmodo
A team of scientists has unearthed evidence that suggests some of the words we use today could be 15,000 years old—meaning that Ice Age humans would have been able to understand parts of our speech.Read more...

Slow-Motion Proof That Bats Are Way More Graceful Than You Thought

# 2013-05-07 02:39:19, Gizmodo
You don't think of a bat as being as graceful in the air as say an eagle or a hummingbird. After all, they look like mother nature just hacked some wings onto a rat. But thanks to the magic of high-speed photography, this bat's mid-flight dining is more graceful than a performance of The Nutcracker...

Government Lab Admits to Using Quantum Internet for Two Years

# 2013-05-06 23:15:00, Gizmodo
This might be the biggest tech humblebrag ever. A team of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs has quietly shrugged its shoulders and admitted to the fact that, yeah, it's been using quantum internet for, like, the last two years. Whatever.Read more...

The Daily Roundup for 05.06.2013

# 2013-05-06 12:58:00, Engadget
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click o...