New Laser Zaps Mosquitoes in SlowMotion

That’s right, a weapon that kills malaria-carrying mosquitoes with fricking lasers!

http://io9.com/5921989/incredible-medical-breakthrough-allows-doctors-to-inject-oxygen-into-the-bloodstreams-of-people-who-cant-breath

In a monumental breakthrough with far ranging implications, cardiologists at the Children’s Hospital Boston in Massachusetts have kept suffocating rabbits alive for 15 minutes with injections of oxygen-filled microparticles. The groundbreaking procedure could conceivably prevent millions of deaths each year caused by such things as heart attacks and choking.

http://www.livescience.com/21066-supercameras-capture-detail.html

CREDIT: Duke University Imaging and Spectroscopy Program. 

The gigapixel camera uses 98 identical microcameras in unison, each armed with its own set of optics and a 14-megapixel sensor. These microcameras, in turn, all peer through a single large spherical lens to collectively see the scene the system aims to capture. Since the optics of the microcameras are small, they are relatively easy and cheap to fabricate.

The possible applications for this are practically limitless. 

Cracking Open an Egg 60 Feet Underwater

Simply mesmerizing.

http://grist.org/list/gza-and-neil-degrasse-tyson-team-up-on-a-hip-hop-record-about-science/

“We talked about frenetic energy, outer space, molecules crashing into each other, organized chaos,” Mr. Vitali said. “The grandeur of the fact that the universe was born in a millionth of a second, in this explosion that created billions of stars, these overpowering ideas that are bigger than we can conceive. How do we make the record feel like that?”

This will be awesome.

http://io9.com/5918672/brain-implants-powered-by-spinal-fluid-another-huge-step-towards-our-cyborg-future

Image via Shutterstock/Andrea Danti.

The breakthrough is part of an ongoing trend in cybernetics in which biological functions are steadily being mimicked with microelectronics, and where the body’s own natural processes are leveraged to restore function or provide energy. 

I look forward to becoming a robot overlord.

http://www.nature.com/news/antibody-cocktail-cures-monkeys-of-ebola-1.10821

CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP/GETTY

Monkeys infected with Ebola have been cured by a cocktail of three antibodies first administered 24 hours or more after exposure. The result raises hopes that a future treatment could improve the chances of humans surviving the disease caused by the deadly virus, which kills up to 90% of infected people and could potentially be used as a biological weapon. 

Science!

In keeping with the beer theme for today.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/google-employees-create-beer-dispensing-kegdroid/

Developed by Google senior developer advocate Paul Carff and senior software engineer David Sainte-Claire, the duo have combined a Motorola Xoom tablet using NFC integration with a beer dispensing Android robot to create the KegDroid. 

I believe this is the Droid we’ve been looking for.

Kenyan schoolchildren reenact the end of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.  

This may be one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen.

Terra Sacra

Amazing compilation of time lapse taken from across the globe.  Check out the full HD at http://vimeo.com/42882023.