On this day in 2007, Don Herbert, better known as Mr. Wizard, died. Donald Jeffry Herbert (“Mr. Wizard”) (1917 – 2007) was the creator→

[] 1 [DI]2: The typical human mouth contains a writhing orgy of bacteria. Most of these microscopic organisms are benign, and some are even→

A microbiologist at the UCLA School of Dentistry has developed a mouthwash that successfully destroys the harmful bacteria that is the principal cause tooth→

Fast Company: Taiga Biotechnologies may wipe out blood banks as we know them. The Aurora, Colorado-based startup has developed and licensed stem-cell technologies that→

Someday soon, you’ll be able to ask your trees whether they need more water… and they’ll answer you. They won’t use human voices, rather→

Daily Freeman: Milk, eggs, cheese, tomatoes, transglutaminase, sodium citrate… It may not sound like the last grocery list you wrote, but the growing appeal→

USA Today: Using cow stem cells grown in a petri dish, the researchers have created small strips of muscle that will be mixed with→

Wired UK: Mark Post, a vascular biologist at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, is about to create a proof-of-concept lab-grown hamburger. It→

WSJ: Christmas tree geneticist John Frampton rubs the sprigs of a two-inch seedling, planted two years ago from the seed of a fir cone→

HumansInvent: In places like Singapore, where fresh water is scarce, one method to obtain drinking water is to filter out the salt from seawater.→

I don’t understand the science, but Doctor Tipster is reporting that soon we’ll have the ability to make our bodies burn their own fat:→

Because who hasn’t burnt their tongue on a slice hot pizza or a sip from McDonald’s coffee, scientists at the University of Texas at→

StarTribune: Pond scum, or blue-green algae, is a common sight in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. For Blue Water Ponds, a start-up company operated→

WorldCrunch: Earlier this week, within hours a photo taken at Xiaogan City High School in Hubei Province China was circulated all over China. In→

Medical Daily: Scientists have created a mouth spray that can instantaneously intoxicate a person for a few seconds without the harmful effects of alcohol.→

If Forbes 30 under 30 list wasn’t interesting enough, they made it even more interesting by listing a 17 year old as one of→

NPR: The National Science Foundation screened applicants for this Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program and awarded each research team $50,000. They’ll be mentored by entrepreneurs→

When Shree Bose was in second grade, she tried to make blue spinach. At just 17 years of age, she won the first Google→

Just because your area of expertise is something exotic like anthropology, doesn’t mean you can’t make a business out of it. A forensic anthropologist→

We mentioned back in October that Dean Kamen was hosting a science TV show on Green Planet. If you don’t have Green Planet on→