From the British paper The Register, reporting on the ammonia-laden refrigerator being ejected from the International Space Station:
ASTRONAUT SPACE DUMP PONG-BOMB FRAG SHOWER TODAY… Read the rest “Best Science Headline Contender:”
PhysOrg.com reveals the unexpected origin of a new alternative energy technology – it isn’t new at all:
… Read the rest “Steampunk Laughs Last: Hydrogen from Solar.”…[I]t may seem a bit out of place that, in 1833, an Italian physicist
PhysOrg reports on a slithery new power source – the eel generator:
… Read the rest “Electric Eel Power”Electric eels channel the output of thousands of specialized cells called electrocytes to generate electric
New Scientist goes behind the music to tell the real story of Manchester rocker and physics prof Andrew Murray, who figured out a new way to take atoms apart using his guitar amp:
… Read the rest “For That Atomic Guitar Sound.”Murray’s
Montana State University researchers have found diesel fuel growing on trees in Patagonia. Well, OK, it’s the next best thing – a fungus that churns out diesel:
… Read the rest “Alternative fuels are popping up like mushrooms.”The Energy
Scientific American reports on the psychology of sarcasm and on new studies that suggest irony is hardwired into our brains:
… Read the rest “No, Really.”In one experiment, [Penny M. Pexman of the University of Calgary
We are surrounded, NASA astronomers now say, by flux transfer events – fast-moving, invisible tunnels to the Sun:
… Read the rest “Magnetic Portals Surround Us.”A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 93 million
Musical mystery solved after 40 years! It took an obsessive mathematician to discover what the heck the Beatles were playing for the opening chord of “Hard Day’s Night”… Read the rest “The Beatles Knew All The Chords… Plus One.”
Image from "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth" at the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
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