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How Mission Chinese Transformed noma into a Wonderland of Fried Chicken and 'Titanic'
I watched Danny Bowien and Angela Dimayuga transform the world-renowned restaurant noma into a Gonzo-esque space where beautifully composed dishes including koji-fried chicken paired with weed were served alongside the Titanic soundtrack. The...
A Lamb-Jellyfish Hybrid Lab Animal Was Accidentally Sold for Meat in Paris
Oops, a French research lab accidentally sold a lamb with glow-in-the-dark jellyfish genes to a slaughterhouse and it was then sold and eaten. Sorry, guys.
Bio-Hackers Are Using Human DNA To Make Vegan Cheese
The process of making dairy cheese isn't always ethically rosy. One San Francisco-based bio-hacker group is currently working on synthesizing a cheese product from bovine and human caseins. We spoke to them to find out what the hell is going on here.
New Zealand Scientists Are Electrocuting Steaks
Electrocuting a steak to make the cheapest cuts of meat tender is way more complicated and expensive that you’d think. We spoke with some Australian scientists to try to understand why they're doing this.
Drugged Rats Playing Slot Machines Offer a New Clue into Problem Gambling
Could an anti-gambling drug be the way to save the world's worst gamblers?
Mice Can Now Be Cloned from Tiny Drops of Blood
Breakthrough could speed up drug testing, or lead to massive mice revolt.
A Pig Named TJ Tabasco May Have Solved Our Organ Crisis
When we think of great scientific advancement, we usually call up a stock-image montage of great discoverers like Archimedes, Galileo, or Marie Curie, of Isaac Newton contemplating the laws of gravity, of Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine, and NASA sending a...
Parsons' Portal to Hell
I’m about to be sucked into a Hell portal that sits in caverns somewhere around NASA’s JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab). The old line is that "JPL" really stands for Jack Parsons’ Lab, in honor of the rocketeer who dabbled in the occult and went to sex parties...
Crowdfund a Meth Lab for Science
It’s like Breaking Bad, except instead of one chemist, one flunky, and one mean old hitman, this drug experiment will be handled by a trio of scientists hailing from some of the country’s top universities.
Toxo Terror: Are Our Brains Controlled by Cat-Loving Parasites?
Teeming within your body alone are trillions of microorganisms—bacteria, fungi, viruses, protists—that make up 90 percent of all the cells in your body. You are more them, than you are you. In fact, there’s not really a you.
Be Thankful for Thanksgiving Because in the Future It Is Going to Suck
Excuse me while I brush aside Christmas decorations, football and Black Friday for a moment. What Thanksgiving is really about is remembering just how lucky we are to be able to fill a table with food and spread our family and friends around it. It's...
Heads Up, Hoverboarders: Here Comes Quantum Levitation
Few motifs of science fiction cinema have been more appealing to us than the subtle defiance of gravity offered by futuristic hovercraft.