Mould and fungus are two things that most people normally consider a little bit useless and a little bit disgusting. But that’s because most people don’t live in Japan. Amoeboid slime mould has been on Earth longer than we can determine and Japanese scientists believe it might hold the key to developing bio-computers capable of [...]

Science is so cool. Take these amazing videos of pendulum waves for example. Is it a science demonstration or is it a kinetic art installation? Well the simple answer is it’s both, but Prof Eric Heller of Harvard argues that it’s best categorised as a “simulation of quantum revival”…Yeah, I don’t know what that means [...]

Last week we (you & me) cleverly mused about whether or not we are alone in the universe… showing ourselves to be hugely philosophical and wise little beasties.  Well done us. In near perfect timing, the first global Census of Marine Life has been released.  The census, a culmination of ten years of marine exploration [...]

South African, Dr Sonnet Ehlers (pictured), has invented a little something to make dirty, filthy rapists the world over cross their legs (the girly way) in anguish… pictured above is the “Rape-aXe”… the culmination of forty years of Ehlers work. The Rape-aXe is analogous to a female condom. A woman would insert this latex device [...]