An Invention That Facilitates The Birth Of A Child By Centrifugal Force
This Teacher’s Neat (But Extremely Gross) Experiment For Her Students Has Gone Viral
By: James Felton/IFL Science Teaching children to love science can be difficult. Getting kids to wash their hands can be even more so. Well, one teacher in Gray’s Creek, North Carolina, has managed to do both for her class in one foul, really gross swoop. In a post that’s gone viral on Facebook, Donna Gill Allen showed off…
There’s A $100 Million Plan To Make A Synthetic Spinal Cord To End Paralysis
By: Dom Galeon/Futurism Hugh Herr and his colleagues at MIT’s Center for Extreme Bionics want to change what it means to be disabled. As part of a $100 million, five-year project, the researchers are working on advanced prosthetics that work like real limbs, a synthetic nervous system, and more. A BOLD MISSION Some say experience is the…
South African Child “Functionally Cured” Of HIV For Nine Years
By: Josh Davis/IFL Science A child who was born with HIV has been “functionally cured” of the virus for the last nine years. The South African child has been able to live for almost a decade without taking any medication for the disease, in what is only the third case of a child remaining in remission without detectable levels…
I Plugged In A Himalayan Salt Lamp And Went To Sleep. 10 Days Later, This Is How My Body Felt
By: Ileana Paules-Bronet/Little Things Have you heard of a Himalayan salt lamp before? Until a couple of weeks ago, I hadn’t either. Himalayan salt is a pinkish color, and many people use it in place of regular table salt. In addition to the food-seasoning use, Himalayan salt is also used for Himalayan salt lamps. These pinkish-orange Himalayan…
Surgeon Who Wants To Perform First Human Head Transplant Claims New Breakthrough
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science “Are human head transplants coming soon?” CNN wondered back in 2015. This is an extremely strange question to attempt to answer. Apart from the fact that it’s now 2017 and such an operation clearly isn’t available at your local hospital, Sergio Canavero – the neuroscientist who first announced that he was going…
Newly Refined “Liquid Biopsies” Could Detect Cancer From Simple Blood Tests
By: Josh Davis/IFL Science Researchers are developing blood tests that are so sensitive they may one day be used routinely by doctors to monitor tumors, and even check if patients have undiagnosed cancer. Researchers announcing their preliminary results at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference in Chicago this week say they have made major steps forward…
Gravitational Waves Are Permanently Warping The Fabric of Space-Time
By: Mike Mcrae/Science Alert This could reveal strange new physics. Researchers have proposed a method for detecting exotic events in physics by looking for the scars they leave behind on the fabric of space.By identifying how objects like cosmic strings or evaporating black holes leave behind memories of their existence on the Universe, it might…
Flat-Earther’s “Experiment” Goes Viral, Just Not In The Way He’d Hoped
By: James Felton/IFLScience A flat-Earth conspiracy theorist and YouTuber has taken a spirit level onto a plane to “prove” that Earth is flat once and for all. His “experiment” has since gone viral, just not in the way that he’d hoped. YouTube conspiracy theorist D. Marble took a flight from North Carolina to Seattle in order…