One of the most amazing fruits you’ve probably dismissed as ordinary is actually not a fruit, or ordinary.

Wizards… (cough cough) scientists at the University of Michigan have developed an incredible new coating that literally causes nearly any liquid that touches it to bounce right off. It’s being dubbed: “superomniphobic.”

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Nanoscience is the study of phenomena and manipulation of materials at the nanoscale, where properties differ significantly from those at a larger scale. The strange world of Nanoscience — it can take you into atoms and beyond the stars.

We can all agree that eating is awesome, some might even argue necessary, but one of eating’s side effects is weight gain. Some people don’t enjoy this occurrence, and for those people, thankfully there’s AspireAssist.

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Did you know that over 1,500 Terabytes of DNA data are ejected from your body during sex?

A company called ASAP Science has put together two short videos highlighting some pretty unbelievable facts. Check ‘em out below.

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With hard data and lofty predictions gathered from renowned sources like NASA, MIT and IBM, the BBC has compiled this BBC Future Infographic, outlining some of the most likely and most amazing predictions for the next 150 years.

These 40 projections were made by scientists, journalists, politicians and other influential individuals. Some lead to a utopia, others take us down a dark road to a dystopia. It’s thought-provoking nonetheless.

Ladbrokes, a British betting firm, even gave their odds of each prediction coming true down the line. Enjoy and let us know what you think.

Earlier this year we learned how a group of space enthusiasts and entrepreneurs were planning to mine asteroids for trillions of dollars.

Now, scientists at CalTech working with NASA have outlined plans to ‘lasso’ a 500 ton asteroid, slow it down, and turn it into an intermediate launching pad for missions to Mars.

OneTesla

OneTesla is a little Tesla coil that takes MIDI input and plays music using sparks.

Its secondary coil stands only 10″ tall, but it can produce lightning nearly 2 feet long!

Six times lighter than air, 5,000 times less dense than water, and four times lighter than the previous record holder.

A mesh of carbon nanotubes, the material can carry up to 40,000 times its own weight, is hydrophobic, conductive and can be compressed to one 30th of its original size

Many of us know firsthand that chronic alcohol consumption puts stress on the liver and causes some morning-after discomfort.

Luckily and just in time for New Years, Researchers at the Institute of Medical Science and Jeju National University in Korea have published a study identifying the leaves and shoots of asparagus as a scientifically feasible hangover remedy.