Controversial campaigns on crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo aren’t all that uncommon. Such is the case with Triton, an Indiegogo campaign that raised close to $900,000 before skeptics in the scientific and diving communities prompted the company to refund…

Collaboration between researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES) and orthopedic surgeons at St Vince’s Hospital in Melbourne has resulted in a 3D printing pen capable of creating custom cartilage implants on-the-fly.

The basics of magnets are pretty simple. You've got a north and south pole and as we learned in grade school, opposites attract and similar poles repel. A company by the name of Correlated Magnetics has done some serious thinking…

It was reported last year that an Australian startup company wanted to help people transfer their consciousness into artificial bodies so they might live forever. Most of Humai’s ambitions relied on scientific breakthroughs being made in the near future, but…

Most people know that ants can lift over 100 times their body weight, and when they work together, these tiny insects can move objects much bigger than themselves. Researchers at Stanford Universtiy have been studying this ability for a while…

For those lucky enough to witness the one and only total solar eclipse of 2016, the event was breathtaking. But it was Mike Kentrianakis and nearly a dozen other eclipse-chasers that arguably had the best view possible as they soaked…

In 2014, UK company Surrey NanoSystems created a material so dark that it absorbed 99.96 percent of the light that touched it. Now, scientists have created a new version that is even blacker. Incredibly, it’s so dark that spectrometers can’t…

For the past 14 months, Swedish band Wintergatan has been constructing a huge, elaborate machine that plays an entire song using marbles. They've just released a video that shows the song and machine in action, and it's pretty incredible.

NASA late last year outlined a three-phase plan to send astronauts to Mars. The ambitious undertaking, much of which involves ongoing space research and developing methods to harvest resources from Mars to sustain human life, is on schedule to unfold…

Scientists with the LIGO Laboratory announced earlier today that they've discovered gravitational waves. Some are calling it the most important breakthrough in modern science, something that Einstein predicted more than 100 years ago as part of his theory of relativity.

Authorities in India believe a meteorite crashed into a private engineering college over the weekend, killing one person and injuring three others. If confirmed, it would be the first time in modern history that a person has been killed by…

Pluto saw its status as the ninth planet in our solar system stripped in 2006, a demotion that angered people worldwide. As it turns out, that reclassification may have been justified after all.

A pair of Ph.D. candidates from Japan's Tsukuba University have created a special glove that allows the wearer to "feel" objects underwater without actually making contact with them.

Scientists from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a unique printing technique in which two images are printed in the same location. At any given time, one image is hidden and the other is viewable. To see…

3D printing is becoming increasingly popular within the medical industry. Its relative cheapness and flexibility has recently seen the technology used to produce a titanium sternum and ribcage, as well as a prosthetic robot hand. Now, scientists from Chinese biotechnology…

As a group of Cornell physicists have recently discovered, atoms won't move while observing them. In their tests graduate students Yogesh Patil and Srivatsan Chakram locked a particular gas, consisting of roughly a billion Rubidium atoms, in a vacuum chamber…

Mythbusters hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman have revealed that the next season of the science-based reality show will be its last. As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end.

A man who has been unable to move both legs after his spinal cord was completely severed in a motorcycle accident five years ago has made medical history after doctors reconnected brain signals to his legs, according to a study…

Home automation has – and will continue to – make our daily lives a bit more convenient. Yet for some with physical disabilities that limit movement, something as trivial as turning on a light or controlling a phone can be…

A cancer patient in Spain has received the world’s first custom, 3D-printed titanium sternum and ribcage implant. The technology was developed in Australia by scientists at CSIRO's 3D printing facility in conjunction with medical device company Anatomics.

Most of us are allergic to something, even if it’s a minor affliction. Now imagine that whatever you’re allergic to invisibly criss-crosses every major city and small town. You can’t get away from it unless you sequester yourself in an…

Physicists running experiments using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have confirmed the existence of a new class of sub-atomic particles called pentaquarks.

The Internet has made it possible to self-diagnose virtually any ailment right from a mobile device or computer without having to step foot into a doctor’s office. Sites like WebMD are unparalleled in terms of convenience, offering a general diagnosis…

The optical spectrometer, an instrument that breaks down the light that something reflects or emits, telling you what it's made of, is used for everything from diagnosing skin cancer to identifying the makeup of unknown chemicals. They are usually big…