in-the-lab
Is This Lab-Grown Leather Vegan?
As you probably learned in college when you started wearing Doc Martin boots and smoking Marlboro Reds, leather jackets are expensive. That's because leather is expensive, and as cows continue to belch greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and require...
Enjoy These First Images From the World's Most Powerful Camera
The Dark Energy Camera is just what it sounds, and then even a bit more. Located on a mountaintop in Chile, the phone booth-sized 570 megapixel camera, the tool of the "Dark Energy Survey":https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/ collaboration, is designed to...
How Big Pharma Hooked America on Legal Heroin
Frank Morris was only 23 when he ended up in drug rehab. But he was already a full-blown junkie, smoking crack on the streets of San Francisco, and nearly losing his left arm after accidentally pumping a full shot into his artery.
This is the Banned 1945 US Army Documentary That Inspired "The Master"
In _Hard Eight_, Paul Thomas Anderson's first feature, John C. Reilly becomes the gambling protege of Phillip Baker Hall. Like some of Bret Easton Ellis' returning characters, Anderson scripted Phillip Baker Hall, in _Boogie Nights_ and _Magnolia_, to...
Researchers Aim For Commercially Viable Green Crude in Four Years
Four years. This is the goal set by researchers at Texas A&B for the deployment of near-commercial-scale technology to conjure regular ol' oil -- the kind that might wind up at a gas pump -- from genetically modified algae. The task is as "simple" as...
Scientists Can Now 3D Print Blood Vessels in Seconds
3D printing was already impressive. I mean, this is technology that can take a computer file and turn it into a real life thing. Pretty much anything, too — sculptures, burritos, human fetuses, bicycles, bones, cars, kidneys, assault weapons. One big...
The Most Surreal Lake in the World Is a Portal to Some Very Weird Things
Pavilion Lake, a 3.6 mile long, half mile wide body of water located in Marble Canyon, British Columbia, is famous for what visitors call “freshwater corals.” Even the fuzziest picture of them impresses; images recorded on a pipe inspection camera in...
The Impossible Project Wants To Put Your iPhone Pictures on Film
It's entirely possible that this might actually make sense. The Impossible Project, who, if you recall, has been reengineering discontinued Polaroid film, has developed a prototype for a piece of hardware that takes digital images off of your iPhone...
Want to Learn New Things? Go to Sleep
Much of the animal training you see, whether it's at SeaWorld or at a puppy class, is rooted in classical conditioning, the kind of training Pavlov demonstrated when he showed that dogs can be made to salivate at the sound of a bell that repeatedly...
Science Press Releases Are Amazing (Salmon Lice Content Within)
Not all science news is "OMG Higgsbosongodparticle" or about boning or fashionable topics in nutrition. A great deal of it is really pretty boring, at least to most of us that aren't directly involved in the particular field of less-sexy science being...
Meet the Guy Who Hunts Space Bears in Rural Virginia
_Episode 5 of our space show, Spaced Out. See other episodes "in the video room":http://motherboard.vice.com/video/series/spaced-out_Mike Shaw is a quiet, unassuming man in love with the wilderness. He also knows far more about tardigrades then almost...
Science Is Getting Closer to Finding a Cure for Paralysis
A team scientists in Switzerland and the United States must be thrilled after an experimental stem cell treatment they developed helped two paralyzed patients regain feeling in their bodies. The small trial involved injecting three patients with 2...