The Robot Blimps of Mars
Wired has me eager for interplanetary conquest with their look at our armada of airships and robotic rovers: With the miniature lab tests complete, [Wolfgang […]
Wired has me eager for interplanetary conquest with their look at our armada of airships and robotic rovers: With the miniature lab tests complete, [Wolfgang […]
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about, the Telegraph reports that an asteroid just blew up over Indonesia with the force of three […]
Discover has an interesting bit of unexpected biomimicry. The mantis shrimp (probably the scariest marine predator less than 3 feet long) has an unusual way […]
We all want a primitive man, says the Telegraph, reporting on new evidence that modern humans got it on with Neanderthals: [Said Professor Paabo, who […]
Forget asteroids or nuclear war. Science Daily now has me worried that we’re all going to die from toxic pond scum: The microscopic plants usually […]
Click to embiggen vastly Landsat 7 gave us this memorable look at clouds moving rapidly over the Aleutian Islands. These whorls happen, as any canoeist […]
SONG: Let’s Take the Boat Out (To download, double right click and “Save Target As…”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “A Rocket for the 21st Century”, from […]
Designboom recently gave a green design award to the Murakami rocking chair. Great invention – it’s a rocking chair with a dynamo and a built-in […]
So first there was that little problem with Al Qaeda and the Large Hadron Collider. Now, the Belfast Telegraph reveals a similar link between Mossad […]
…and not only that, but painkilling medicine, too. Newsweek reveals that the psychedelic rocket fuels of 1960s culture are proving to be unique weapons against […]
Click to embiggen The circle of life, seen as a straight line. With a bird of prey at the top. There’s something totemic about it, […]
New Scientist challenges a team of professional electronic snoops, who prove that strangers can learn more than you think from your phone: I’ve just walked […]
A professor at Australia’s Curtin Institute of Technology, Dr Morry Silberstein, may have figured out what makes acupuncture work: His research, to be published in […]
New Scientist goes tropical, revealing what a fusion reactor has in common with a pina colada: The coconuts will be used to generate 10,000 cubic […]
This is why we do what we do: Letter to a ^top scientist at Woomera. This is how the space race was won, you know. […]
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