Well, we’ve been creating antimatter for quite some time now, but it’s slow to make, dangerous stuff and we have no real idea what to do with it! But now NASA has come up with a great idea – lets power spacecraft with it. Sounds cool if they can get it to work…
Not that I know how to turn a black hole off, for best results, but if I can capture the emissions from a black hole, I should be able to know everything that ever went into it. So for my next trick: turn the globe inside out as my pinhole black hole computer project gets Read more about My Quantum computer is a black hole[…]
Don’t you love things quantum?
It turns out that there’s a whole controversy going on about wind farms, which deliver ‘green’ energy. The BBC has a story listing 10 objections to wind farms, more than half of which are bunkum, but it turns out that one of the major problems they produce is RADAR clutter, which creates false positives (aircraft Read more about Wind Farms block RADAR[…]
They’ve grown a slime on a chip and forced it to grow in the shape of the bot thus encasing it entirely and finding some way of translating it’s movements to the movements of the robot. This makes it a ‘living’ robot. Currently it’s a bit boring as it moves away from light and moves Read more about Slime Controlled Robot[…]
Works on pigs! For at least 2 1/2 hours… well done, maybe we can do this to soldiers on the battlefields? HASAN ALAM gazes over the cold, motionless body of a pig lying on a stainless steel table before him. The animal has no pulse, no blood, no electrical activity in its brain, and its Read more about Suspended animation[…]
Which can mimic nuclear explosions – necessary due to the test ban treaties. Extreme science in the UK!
They last longer and go 4 times as fast as conventional ion thrusters (for spacecraft). The theory behind ion propulsion is also explained quite well in this article. To infinity – and beyond!
Explained as an epic rhyming poem.
How do objects and images move? Why do animals move? What is motion? […] This site publishes a free physics textbook that tells the story of how it became possible, after 2500 years of exploration, to answer such questions. The book is written to be entertaining, surprising and challenging on every page. With little mathematics, Read more about Free Physics Textbook[…]
Direct from The Life Aquatic, two of our heroes have gone and built this ship, which capsises in order to be stable in the water to do research where stability is needed. They actually put serious money in this!
NASA has added high res images of the moon to their world wind software (kind of like Google Earth) allowing you to use it to explore our moon as well as our planet. Nice!
The BBC site has some striking scientific pictures on it
With a $7.5m budget this guy has invented a car ‘plug in’ which drops your emissions by up to 100% and your fuel efficiency by 10%. Should be on the market in about a years time. Basically, the H2N-Gen contains a small reservoir of distilled water and other chemicals such as potassium hydroxide. A current Read more about Saving the Earth through fuel efficiency and emission cutdown[…]
OPEN LETTER TO KANSAS SCHOOL BOARD Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel Read more about Giant Spaghetti Monster[…]
Yeah, just like the incredible journey! Little balloons that travel through the system, find cancerous cells and explode there releasing chemotherapy chemicals… The dual-chamber, double-acting, drug-packing “nanocell” proved effective and safe, with prolonged survival, against two distinct forms of cancers-melanoma and Lewis lung cancer-in mice.
Yup, these guys have implanted heat spreaders in epileptic rat brains which cancel out the erratic electrical currents causing epileptic seizures, and it worked on them… will the heat damage your brain? Nahhh of course not!
Yup, in one of those wonderful studies I like, it turns out that: Crashes are avoided by making a safe plan based on what you see. Cameras move attention away from hazards to speedometers So the UK has stopped deploying them whilst it ponders this… – From El Reg
Science magazine celebrates its 125th anniversary with a list of 125 questions science hasn’t got an answer for. I’ve always been a bit curious about no 1 myself.. ooh, and that one, and that one, ooh! ooh! and that one! 25 Questions .. further 100
Eric J. Heller has some awesome pictures of scientifically usefull visualisations, that also happen to be very attractive in his gallery.
The Bionic Man with moving metal arms controlled by thought and with sensitivity are now available at the mad scientist near you…
Nuke some grapes and see the plasma! There’s some other ways to create plasma in your microwave, but I can’t find them right now…
The Liverpudlians have done it! Created by The University of Liverpool Library with the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the SF Hub aims to facilitate research into science fiction and its related literary genres. Loads of sci-fi stuff
How is it that some technological innovations get taken up by the masses, and others don’t? How important are innovators and early adopters in this? Well Mr. Rogers apparently wrote the bible on this: Rogers, E.M. (1995). Diffusion of innovations (4th edition). The Free Press. New York. Here’s the theory laid out in bare bones Read more about Diffusion of Innovations[…]
NEC Corporation, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, POWEREDCOM, Inc., and Japan Science and Technology Agency have jointly succeeded in realizing fortnight-long, continuous quantum cryptography final-key (note 1) generation at an average rate of 13 kbps over a 16-km-long commercial optical network. Yeah!