Over the course of medical science, it has been a strongly held belief that in order to create a baby, you need an egg cell, a sperm cell, and a place for the embryo to grow. However, recent scientific studies have shown that the egg and sperm need not meet inside the uterus (In Vitro Fertilization), and the uterus doesn't even need to be the mother's uterus (surrogate).

But even more groundbreaking than that is the possibility that babies can be created without an egg cell! A study published in Nature Communications has shown that eggs may not be unique in their ability to create an embryo.

We used to think that babies = sperm + egg, but scientists have proven otherwise!

Plants all around us may seem like passive organisms that only serve to feed herbivores, but did you know that plants are a lot smarter than that?

Over the millennia, plants have evolved to be able to fend for themselves against damage caused by nature. Some plants cover themselves in spines, disguise themselves as predators, and in a recent study, they've also been found to produce a chemical defense against hungry animals munching on their buds.

These cobra lilies can scare off even the largest predators!

Accidents happen all the time. Sometimes you accidentally put too much sugar in your coffee. Other times you accidentally forget to call your girlfriend. And then other times you accidentally make a scientific breakthrough.

That's exactly what happened to Mya Le Thai, a doctoral student from the University of California, Irvine. She was just playing around in the university's lab when she suddenly came across the perfect structure to create a battery that can be charged repeatedly over a span of 400 years.

The researchers were originally experimenting with nanowires to be used in batteries, but they learned that these thin, fragile wires would break down and crack after multiple charging cycles. Thai then decided to do an experiment wherein she coated a set of gold nanowires in manganese dioxide and a Plexiglas-like electrolyte gel.