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On Star Trek the hypospray was developed out of necessity the producers wanted to be able to show medicines being applied by Dr McCoy but NBC wouldn't allow for them to show hypodermic syringes on ...

Like some wizard, Dr. "Bones" McCoy needed only to wave his tricorder sensor like a talisman over "Star Trek" crew members to detect any ailment -- and to cure many of them. In reality, McCoy's ...

Factory Entertainment is beaming in a brand new replica collectible from the hit sci-fi television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. They have seemly travel to the 24th-century as they release ...

There have been many changes in the world since Gene Roddenberry first created Star Trek in 1966. Everyday luxuries like mobile phones, computers, and the internet hadn't become a reality yet, and ...

In the Star Trek universe, the hypospray was able to get medications into patients through their skin, even their clothes, without using needles. In real life, this device was the jet injector, which ...

It is a fact that lots of people just don't like needles. Even the thought of a hypodermic syringe is enough to bring some out in a cold sweat, and the fact that vaccines are administered this way ...

Star Trek transporter (Image: Getty) A team from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands showed for the first time in May 2014 that it was possible to teleport information encoded into ...

Australian researchers have this week created a small-scale 'tractor beam' that can move tiny particles over a distance of 20cm in the lab. It's not quite on the scale of the Star Trek Enterprise's ...