Image courtesy Sanguis et Pulvis You can’t get blood from a stone, but you might get a brick from blood. In his final semester at the University of Westminster in London, architecture student Jack Munro created an experimental building material by mixing cows' blood with a preservative (to prevent bacterial and fungal growth) and sand and then baking it in a mold, so that the blood coagulates and holds the sand in a stable and waterproof... READ ON

Credit: Enzo Di Fabrizio To deduce the double helix structure of deoxribonucleic acid 59 years ago, scientists James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin bounced X-rays off of the DNA and used that data to reconstruct its shape. But now, physicist Enzo Di Fabrizio, a professor at the Magna Graecia University in Catazaro, Italy, has snapped the very first direct picture of the structure of... READ ON

Cheetahs are the fastest animals on Earth. They're capable of running 75mph in bursts up to 1600 feet, and can go from 0 to 62mph in just 3 seconds—and this stunning ultra-slow motion footage shows the animals in all their glory. You can literally see every muscle rippling as they chase a toy through the grass. To create this incredible footage, a crew shot five sprinting cheetahs at the Cincinnati Zoo over the course of 3 days using a Phantom camera, which captured them at 1200 frames per... READ ON

Wikimedia Commons Forty years ago, on November 29, 1972, a startup called Atari announced the release of Pong, a coin operated “video game.” The company’s name was taken from the ancient Japanese board game Go, and vaguely translates as “to hit the mark.” In celebration, here are ten things you might not know about Atari. 1. In today’s dollars, you could found Atari for the price of a MacBook Pro. Nolan Bushnell founded Atari in 1972 with a princely investment of $250. (His co-founder,... READ ON