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 […]
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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, […]
Water on the Moon
SPACE.com says we’re ready to set up shop on Luna, now that we’ve found reserves of water up there: While scientists continued to suspect that […]
We have ways of making you talk. OK, no, not really.
ScienceInsider dares to contradict thousands of Alias fans with “facts” and “experimental proof” from a neuroscientist who explains why torture doesn’t work: (Quoted from Trends […]
Land of the Rising Solar Panel
PhysOrg reveals why Japan is going to outlast us all – because instead of (or in addition to) prospecting for oil reserves, they’re going to […]
Unclean! UNCLEAN!
New Scientist‘s microbiological reporting really makes you scared to ever go in the shower again: “Run your shower for a minute or so before you […]
Science Art: Flying Lemur, Webster’s New International, 1911.
This is the flying lemur, or colugo, also known as the order Dermoptera – the “skin-wings.” They’re related to shrews and bats moreso than real […]
We can see electrons.
Or, well, their valences, which is as good as it gets without Heisenberg getting in the way. Yeah, the Corante Pipeline has a post describing […]