A professor at Australia’s Curtin Institute of Technology, Dr Morry Silberstein, may have figured out what makes acupuncture work:
… Read the rest “Is this how acupuncture works?”His research, to be published in the Journal
New Scientist goes tropical, revealing what a fusion reactor has in common with a pina colada:
… Read the rest “Coconut fusion reactor.”The coconuts will be used to generate 10,000 cubic metres of nothing – the vacuum essential
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. Millions of children who had the rocket researchers’ addresses.
This sounds awfully New Agey for Yale, but apparently, physicists there have discovered that metal circles have a tiny amount of persistent energy flowing through them eternally:
… Read the rest “Every circle is alive.”The
EurekAlert tells me these dudes in Australia are breeding their fortunes after finding a germ that, in effect, lays golden eggs:
… Read the rest “The Gold Bug”“A number of years ago we discovered that the metal-resistant
The venerable Lockergnome recently looked at memory technology – specifically, a nasal spray that boosts your ability to learn:
… Read the rest “Squirt memory up your nose.”In a research report featured as the cover story
There’s been a bit of news recently about the discovery of a large number of glowing mushroom species in various corners of the world. This image is not one … Read the rest “Science Art: Phallus drewesii, by Brian Perry.”
So, these musical engineers are trying to take the keyboards out of electronic music. Instead, “beautiful wooden instruments” are back with the Eigenharp:
It pitchbends,… Read the rest “The Eigenharp”
NASA has given us a helpful guide for watching the LCROSS probe slam into the surface of the moon tomorrow:
… Read the rest “Tomorrow! Watch the moon EXPLODE!”Put on your hard hat and get ready for action, because on Friday, Oct. 9th, what you
IEEE Spectrum, the journal that sounds like it’s screaming, is taking a long, close look at contact lenses that could give you Terminator eyes:
… Read the rest “Intelligent eyes.”…[I]n fact, my students and
The technical chefs at M.I.T. have come up with a cheap, fun recipe – with simple ingredients like salt and paper, you can start cooking up electricity:
… Read the rest “Salt, paper, battery!”The salt-and-paper battery
Or, really astronaut hero Franklin Chang-Diaz has one. Seed magazine has an interview with Dr. Chang-Diaz in which he describes how he’s using magnets and radiation to get to Mars… Read the rest “Plasma drive. We have one.”
This is what 100,000 stars look like. They’re just a fraction of the 10 million stars in the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri, where the stars are packed so… Read the rest “Science Art: Colorful Stars Galore Inside Globular Star Cluster Omega Centauri”
Yes.
Thanks, Jim, for introducing me to Nature’s Great Beyond blog, and especially the “Songs about Science” feature.
And this: Carl Sagan (autotuned), with Stephen… Read the rest ““The brain has its own language.””
I am not alone.
No, there’s a whole festival for people like me. And, possibly, like you, too.
GeekPop 2009 is accepting applications for performers.
Now, I’ve just only learned… Read the rest “GeekPop: Call for Artists”
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