Stay in bed for 70 days, get paid $18,000, help the cause of space exploration. Hat trick!
Outside has an enticing offer for the world’s fittest couch potatoes and La-Z-Boy astronauts. A new NASA project wants YOU to lie in bed for […]
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Music sharpens your brain responses.
Laboratory Equipment investigates the connection between musical training and quick brain responses: Scientists have long known that moving to a steady beat requires synchronization between […]
When robots get 21-gun salutes.
PBS is holding a conversation with Reddit about anthropomorphism and what happens when soldiers start treating their machines like comrades – tools with personalities: “They […]
Green cement is strong cement. Sweet, strong cement.
Laboratory Equipment reports on byproduct of the sugar industry that happens to make a more effective, environmentally friendly cement: New research from the Niels Bohr […]
The scientific secrets of whale earwax.
You want to learn about the hidden history of the ocean? Look within, Nature says… within the earwax of a mighty blue whale: The team, […]
3D smartphone display, no glasses required.
We’re getting closer to having hologram projectors in our pockets, as befits people living in the future. PhysOrg reports on the latest step – a […]
Science Art: Saturn V S-II (Stage Two), NASA illustration.
This is the second stage of the Saturn V rocket – where liquid hydrogen and smoked salmon liquid oxygen were combined to make fuel and […]
Living gears found in little bug’s legs.
This was all over Reddit and ScienceDaily today, because it’s cool. Biologists have found the first example of machine-like gears in a living organism, a […]
NATO creates electronic-stopping beam.
The Telegraph is comparing it to a James Bond movie – a ray that makes any electronic devices in range stop working: Scientists from the […]
Tiny diamonds zap cancer.
PhysOrg has the brilliant news about using itty bitty flecks of precious stones to boost the power of medication to treat exceptionally stubborn cases of […]
Kamikaze moon robot back on track.
The Register is watching the skies as LADEE, NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer probe, heads for its ultimate fate: LADEE took off atop […]
Science Art: Fulleride Cs3C60 by Dmitri Zaitsev and Joffe Ilya Naftolevich
This is a buckyball crystal, a form of carbon that no one had ever seen until the 1980s. Now, it’s starting to get used in […]
Sleep makes the brain cells grow.
BBC has one good reason to get a good night’s sleep tonight – because sleep boosts the number of healthy brain cells in yer head: […]
Apollo legend dishes dirt on NASA.
Or at least speaks his mind, now that he’s retired. Houston Chronicle lets Chris Kraft, NASA’s first flight director, put it all out there on […]
Graphene makes *different* computer chips.
University of California, Riverside, researchers have made a very small breakthrough in the way computers work… one that might lead to big changes soon. They’re […]