Sunny smiles…
…from a solar-powered toothbrush, of course. The invention, from University of Saskatchewan professor Kunio Komiyama and his colleague Dr. Gerry Uswak, uses electrons to replace […]
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Winds of War
UN Scientists looking at the weather have found that over the past 500 years, climate change has marched hand in hand with war, New Scientist […]
Unexpected dinosaurs.
Despite being dead for, oh, 65 million years or so, dinosaurs still turn up in the darnedest places. Mainly museums, of course, but even there, […]
Another dolphin nears extinction.
That’s the not-terribly cheerful news from Nature on the vaquita (Phocoena sinus), a porpoise from Mexico’s Pacific coast: In 1999, researchers estimated there were 567 […]
Science Art: Fächertextur
Polarization-microscope image of C-Phase liquid crystal, taken by Wikimedia Commons user "Minutemen."
Surfer creates Theory of Everything.
If Einstein was around today, he’d probably surf, too. There’s a piece in the Telegraph (based, apparently, on a New Scientist clip) about Dr. A. […]
Roll out the solar!
Popular Science has named the nanosolar powersheet the “Best of What’s New 2007,” and for good reason. Instead of using big glass frames to generate […]
Jules Verne: Bleak Futurist
People nowadays look at Jules Verne as one of the forefathers of science fiction, anticipating amazing technological developments like swift, giant submarines and capsules landing […]
Science Art: Achelousaurus by Mariana Ruiz
A frilled dinosaur found in Montana, as imagined by science illustrator Mariana Ruiz Villarreal.
China’s electric bicycle problem
Sometimes, you just can’t win. You’d expect a country that’s embracing electric bicycles as an alternative to cars to be lauded as an environmental savior. […]
Fighting dirty against germs
Microbiologists have come up with a dirty new weapon in the war on MRSA, according to reports in Scientific American and Science News. The flesh-eating […]
AIDS: Around longer than you’d think.
Science News recently had a report on Michael Worobey’s work tracking AIDS. The common conception of this disease is that it struck America in the […]
And after the charge gives out, you make martinis.
The Interesting Thing of the Day blog presents an interesting solution to a problem that’s deeper than most people realize. The problem is all the […]
Giggle-bot is FRIEND!
Yep, scientists at UC San Diego seem to have found a way around the uncanny valley problem (the more “human” a robot, the creepier it […]