Coconut fusion reactor.
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 […]
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“YOU PUT IN OTHER DETAILS.”
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. […]
Every circle is alive.
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 […]
The Gold Bug
EurekAlert tells me these dudes in Australia are breeding their fortunes after finding a germ that, in effect, lays golden eggs: “A number of years […]
Squirt memory up your nose.
The venerable Lockergnome recently looked at memory technology – specifically, a nasal spray that boosts your ability to learn: In a research report featured as […]
Science Art: Phallus drewesii, by Brian Perry.
Click to embiggen vastly There’s been a bit of news recently about the discovery of a large number of glowing mushroom species in various corners […]
Tomorrow! Watch the moon EXPLODE!
NASA has given us a helpful guide for watching the LCROSS probe slam into the surface of the moon tomorrow: Put on your hard hat […]
Intelligent eyes.
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: …[I]n […]
Salt, paper, battery!
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 […]
Plasma drive. We have one.
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 […]
Science Art: Colorful Stars Galore Inside Globular Star Cluster Omega Centauri
Click to embiggen This is what 100,000 stars look like. They’re just a fraction of the 10 million stars in the massive globular cluster Omega […]
Another Yangzi casualty.
The BBC depresses me again with a story about a unique Chinese fish that’s probably already extinct: A number of fish species vie for the […]
Dead Fish Tell Tales, Alright.
If you’ve ever wondered what a dead fish is thinking, LiveScience has the data, thanks to a team that gave brain scans to a dead […]
Raised to rule.
Your kids giving you lip?? Watch out, warns PhysOrg. Those are the ones who’re going to be in charge some day: Good parenting may better […]
Science Art: $2 Silver Certificate, 1896 (Science Presents Steam and Electricity to Commerce and Manufacture.)
Lovely ladies, all of them. Science, the mother of Steam and Electricity, presents her children to their new, lugubriously lolling caretakers. This was, of course, […]