Audi Has Invented “Blue Crude,” An Alternative Fuel Made of Water, Air and Renewable Energy

Audi introduces “Blue Crude,” an alternative fuel made of water and carbon dioxide. Produced as a clean, sustainable, and environmentally friendly alternative to gas, the new “blue crude” fuel begins by taking electricity from renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, and hydropower, and using it to produce hydrogen from water via reversible electrolysis. The … Read more

Philly Head Cheese: How Einstein’s Brain Ended Up at the Mütter Museum

In the early morning hours of April 18, 1955, Albert Einstein died at Princeton Hospital in New Jersey. Thomas Harvey, the pathologist on duty that night, performed the autopsy and determined that the professor had died of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. What he did next has been the subject of great controversy over the last … Read more

Animal Tech: The World’s Most Incredible Animal Prosthetics

Tonka, the Turtle on Wheels Tonka, a Bay Area Turtle, lost mobility after her legs were bitten by a dog, so Peninsula Humane Society workers fitted the three-legged tortoise with a set of toy wheels. Suddenly, Tonka was off a rolling! slowly of course. And then, in the next couple of days, when her picture … Read more

Scientists determine safest places to be during zombie apocalypse

Where is the best place to be in the event of a zombie apocalypse? It’s a question many have pondered, but now scientists have the answer — and D.C.’s brains don’t fare well when it comes to encroaching flesh-eating undead. Cornell University researchers built a statistical model to determine what a zombie outbreak would look like … Read more

Two-Dad Babies Could Soon Be A Reality

The team, from Cambridge University in the UK and Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, built on previous work where baby mice were successfully raised from mouse skin cells that had been converted into what’s known as primordial germ cells – the precursors of egg and sperm cells. It was a real struggle to replicate the … Read more