GADGETS - TECH NEWS

	The Secret Social Life of Plants [VIDEO]
	Did you know that plants have a social life too? Minute Earth explores and explains the manner in which plants communicate with one another and how they go about protecting and/or destroying each other. Teamwork. Plants gossip below ground as well...
	Scientists Make Plants Work Better by Making Them Bionic
	Graphene is truly some magical material. So it's no surprise that a team of chemical engineers and biochemists have managed to change how plants work, using that. They made plants work better by embedding carbon nanotubes into the plants' leaves so ...
	The Red Dots You See Here is Where Plant Life Is Thriving
	You're checking out a false color image showing plant growth across a planet in red where you'd usually expect some green. The image, captured by NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft is explained...
	Surgeons Save Man's Life by Attaching His Calf to His Arm
	Ian McGregor lost his leg to a cancerous tumor. Doctors managed to save his life in a never attempted before 18-hour surgical procedure by removing his calf and attaching it to his arm to keep it alive during the tumor and leg amputation. They used ...
	Make a Cheap Water Filter Out of a Tree Part
	Scientists at MIT have found a way to make cheap water filters, made from the sapwood of white pine trees. It can filter out 99 percent of E.Coli from contaminated water. Sapwood is simply the part of a tree where sap flows. It has millions of pores...
	Watch the Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare Live-Action ‘Chum Rush’ Trailer [VIDEO]
	PopCap Games released “Chum Rush,” a live-action trailer for their upcoming third-person shooter video game Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare. It shows off a soldier taking on opposing forces with a dolphin shotgun! The game is available to pre-or...
	The Largest Solar Power Plant Opens
	The enormous solar power plant in the middle of the Mojave Desert just began operation yesterday. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System will be generating about 30 percent of all the solar thermal energy that’ll be produced in entire United S...
	There is Such a Thing As a "Poop Bank" Now For People in Search of Fecal Transplants
	Fecal transplant is real. And it performs wonders too. When antibiotics become useless against infections by the bacterium Clostrium difficile, some good old poop inserted into the gut can fix things back up. The only problem? Looking for a source o...
	This Surgical Implant Is So High-Tech It Was Hand-Woven On a Wooden Loom
	This is a protective patch that will guide the way cells heal after shoulder surgery. It is made from microfibers 100 times finer than human hair and will completely disintegrate to prevent long term complications. And it was constructed by hand - o...
	Scientists Eavesdrop on Plants to Discover They "Talk" With Electrical Signals
	Do plants talk to each? Surely, not in a way you and I can understand, but it turns out, with more advanced tools, we are getting better at eavesdropping on their conversations. Kat McGowan works on an area of research field that has "leapfrogged f...