Deep in your heart you know it: there are like two drivers out there on the road that are causing all the traffic jams and one of those assholes is the guy right in front of you. Well, new information collected from hundreds and hundreds of drivers’ cellphones actually backs that up . Sort of. It turns out that it takes very few jackasses to screw things up for everyone. More »
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Most Traffic Jams Are Caused By Just a Handful of Idiots
sciencehabit writes “When it comes to hanging on tight, the lowly mussel has few rivals in nature. Researchers have sought the secrets behind the bivalve’s steadfast grip on wet, slippery rock. Now, a researcher says he has used the mollusk’s tricks to develop medical applications. These include a biocompatible glue that could one day seal fetal membranes, allowing prenatal surgeons to repair birth defects without triggering dangerous premature labor.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Mussel Glue Could Help Repair Birth Defects
Anyone who’s ever had a couple of drinks knows that as fun as it can be, sometimes it’d be nice if you could just make all that haze go away, right away. There’s no solution for your average drunk yet, but researchers at MIT have managed to put together an injection that can turn a party mouse into a stone-cold sober one practically on the spot. More »
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New Nanocapsule Medicine Could Sober You Up in Seconds
Our friend Casey Neistat made a wonderful documentary for the New York Times , he went and compared the actual calories of food to what’s listed on the nutrition facts. And guess what? More times than not, food had more calories than what was advertised. More »
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Are There More Calories in Food Than What’s Listed in the Nutrition Facts? (Yes)
So you decided to jailbreak your iOS device and now the baked-in weather app is borked, right? Yeah, sometimes these things don’t always work out that smoothly but it could have been a lot worse. Now, a fix is being worked on but in case you haven’t downloaded one of a bajillion other weather apps, here’s how to fix the problem now: More »
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Jailbreaking Your iOS Device Probably Killed the Weather App, Here’s How To Fix It
Death rates from cancer have gone down 20% since 1991, according to data in a new study published this month. This does not mean that fewer people are developing cancer, nor does it even mean that fewer people are dying of it — it just means that, year by year, fewer people are dying of the disease. Possible reasons for the shift include better therapies, and earlier diagnosis. In the chart above, and the one below (click to enlarge), you can also see over the past twenty-two years that certain cancers are killing more people — and certain ones are killing fewer. More »
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The Cancer Death Rate is Down 20%
Running certain Android apps on your desktop is nothing new with Bluestacks , but now you can get the whole dang OS running on your PC as a native application thanks to a little program called WindowsAndroid . More »
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You Can Run Android 4.0 in Its Entirety Right on Your PC
In the 1960s, when some were exploring the mysteries of outer space and quantum mechanics, one engineer noticed an extraordinary unexplained phenomenon in shampoo. The sudden, energetic, and seemingly spontaneous bursts of liquid that seemed to randomly squirt out from ordinary shampoo were a mystery for forty years. Here’s why your shampoo, while being poured, sometimes leaps up and tries to get you. More »
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An astonishing shampoo-related physics mystery
There’s nothing quite like getting heavily sedated and having a big ol’ camera crammed down your throat so that doctors can take a look at your esophagus and cut out a little peice to study in the lab. A fun Friday night. Fortunately, endoscopy doesn’t have to be like that too much longer thanks to a small, easily-swallowable endoscope that requires no sedation at all, and returns a full 3D rendering. More »
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Tiny Pill-Shaped Cameras Make Endoscopy Easy To Swallow
sciencehabit writes “All you graying, half-deaf Def Leppard fans, listen up. A drug applied to the ears of mice deafened by noise can restore some hearing in the animals. By blocking a key protein, the drug allows sound-sensing cells that are damaged by noise to regrow. The treatment isn’t anywhere near ready for use in humans, but the advance at least raises the prospect of restoring hearing to some deafened people.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Drug Allows Deafened Mice to Regrow Inner Ear Hair