What do you do when you live near the night club locality of Hamburg and wake up each morning to a stench of urine left behind when drunk revelers pissed on the walls in your street? You put up signs, place fines and when all else fails you teach your walls to fight back.

Now while the walls do not actually grown an arm and punch the drunk in the face, they do indeed give him a start. Walls have been coated with a super hydro phobic paint coating which makes the urine bounce right back off the wall onto the feet of the drunk.

Needless to say the action has been warned of with signs that read, “Do not pee here. We pee back.” The simple but effective campaign was made possible by a product that goes by the name Ultra Ever Dry commercially. Developed by a US based company called Resource Energy Group, the manufacturers and inventors would never have guessed in a million years the product being used as a pee deterrent.

Just goes to show you never know how your science project may end up helping the world. This sure was an unexpected use of a product designed with some other purpose in mind altogether.

Did you ever wonder if someone truly loved you, or if they were faking it? Love has been an emotion difficult to prove even though poets and lovers down the years have spent millennia trying to do so. Enter modern technology and now you really may have a way to prove that you are in love.

Apparently the cocktail of chemicals that are present in your brain can tell researchers just how love affects you when studied under an MRI scanner. At the University of Science and Technology of China Professor Xiaochu Zhang has conducted a study which claims to be the first provider of evidence of love related alterations in the under lying architecture of the brain.

The results of this scientific study have shed fresh light on the mechanism of romantic love. All emotions can be seen affecting the brain. The subjects were shown images of their partners while hooked up to scanners to test for changes in the brain brought out by romantic love. The changes in brain activity, blood flow and other parameters were earmarked to study the difference in romantic feelings and not so romantic feelings of individuals towards the images shown.

One of the main problems with tall skyscrapers in the neighborhood is that you get little or no sun on the streets when you are on the ground near them. Now an international architecture firm, NBBJ, has come up with a concept that has the skyscraper redirecting the sun’s light to the street.

The design director at NBBJ, Christian Coop said that it was about finding a way in which we can have the tall buildings we need without losing natural light on areas below. British cities have been especially concerned with towers that block out sunlight with more than 230 towers in London itself.

The new design which was recently unveiled involves twin towers curved and angled to minimize any shadow. The architects who worked on the design used an algorithm based on the angles that the sun shone each day over a period of a year. This data was then used to build the most optimal design for a towering structure.

The skyscrapers that are part of this science project are also going to diffuse light to areas below rather than melt the cars on the road unlike the last disaster nicknamed “Walkie Scorchie” where in 2013 the building’s reflected light and heat caused several accidental meltdowns.

Have you ever wished that you had a different eye color? Maybe your brown eyes don’t hold the same appeal that blue eyes do? Well a new 20 second laser procedure may be all that you need to help that wish come true.

Stroma Medical, a company from California, has come up with a new laser surgery for the eyes which removes melanin from the anterior layers of the iris. As melanin is the pigment that is responsible for the brown color when it is removed surgically, the eyes turn blue. This is a permanent and irreversible procedure.

The surgery is yet to be tested in the United States but more than a dozen patients in Mexico and Costa Rica have undergone the procedure. They have deemed it to be safe, but it will still be a while before the company gets all the health approvals in the United States.

Incidentally, the surgery which is going to cost $5000 only disrupts the pigment and the body will remove it naturally. The procedure may be short but for the blue eye to appear it will take several weeks after the surgery. Wonder how useful this science project will be?

The life pulse associated with the constant beating of the heart has long been considered an excellent sign to check for the living. However the Australian scientists have come up with a bionic heart at the Queensland University of Technology which does not pulse. The bionic heart which pumps blood is going to be good for ten years as per the researchers.

Named the BiVACOR this artificial heart has a small bladed disc which spins at two thousand revolutions a minute to pump blood along the body’s arteries and veins. The magnetic levitation technology it uses allows it to be saved from the regular wear and tear that other artificial hearts as none of the key components are touching each other. This increases its long life.

The experimental procedure of replacing a sheep’s heart with the device has shown the idea is a viable one and now the researchers are working on making a more robust prototype for human trials. The actual results of this science project will take another three to five years in becoming visible. A crowd funding campaign has been started to get the five million dollars needed for the development and trial of the bionic heart.