Levitating Water Particles

When you scream, sound vibrations transfer energy in the form of waves. Talking is sending waves at different pitches that ears "feel" and interpret as talking. Some sounds are too high to be heard by human ears, but it still sends energy around. Otherwise, the sound doesn't exist. The U.S Department of Energy took sound energy a bit further and created a machine that produces sound waves at such a frequency (22 kilohertz) from opposite directions that it mimicked microgravity conditions (Micro gravity is a term to express an area that has just above no gravity) and made water float in mid air. The only downside to using waves is that water can only be placed at the nodes of the waves, otherwise it doesn't quite work out well.

Why make an expensive device that holds water? Because the device is great at making efficient medicine! It makes medicine more efficient by evening out the different substances into a chemical mixture. In other words, its the World's Best Test Tube.

For more information, click the link: http://www.dogonews.com/2012/9/17/levitate-water-harry-potter-style-no-wand-or-spell-needed

Mammoths: Coming Soon to Your Planet!

Picture of scientists doing stuff to a mammoth carcass

Since the time of Jurassic Park, people have found it mind-boggling that we can reintroduce a species to the planet. Now, as you read this sentence with in the two weeks or so of me posting this, scientists are combining cells and Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid to try and make the first mammoth egg cell the world has seen within the last few (thousand) years. 

How To Get A Mammoth Egg Cell (Theoretical So Far)

Need:

Bunch of science tools and test tubes, etc..

1 living mammoth cell (Recently found 100m under solid ice, so well preserved it still has fatty tissue, hair, and bone marrow-conveniently)

Steps:

Step 1: Check to see if cells are - infact - living.

Step 2: Extract living cell's Nuclei

Step 3: Extract DNA from an elephant egg cell; elephants being the closest relative to the mammoth.

Step 4: Place mammoth genes into the elephant egg cell.

Step 5: Put egg cell back in elephant and let a male elephant do his stuff

Step 6: Have the elephant give birth to a mammoth (like a human giving birth to a chimp)

Step 7: Success! You now have a mammoth!

There are some factors which make the birth unlikely eg: the mother rejects the egg/the cells are too dead/it just simply doesn't work. People in charge of the project aren't even 100% sure what they are going to do with another species. Either way, the planet might just change in a few years. 

Link to site: http://www.dogonews.com/2012/9/15/perfectly-preserved-wooly-mammoth-provides-new-hope-of-resurrecting-the-mighty-mammal/page/4