Posts Tagged ‘science news’
Amazing Images Of The Future From 1947
Some are scary accurate. It’s pretty cool knowing that we are living in this magical future the people only dreamed of just 70 years or so ago We have a few here but to see the full slide show head over to Popsci.com: SPA...
The Lazarus Project resurrects a extinct frog
Good news everyone! We can go back to polluting for fun because we can bring back any animals we make extinct. Just kidding. Please don’t pollute. I bet some guys think their wives could have given birth through th...
The ALMA Radio Telescope is On and Listening
The ALMA Telescope is a powerful new radio telescope that some are calling the best ground-based observatory in the world. It will be listening to the stars for faint radio signals from deepest space, affording an unprecedent...
How about a “feel good” story for a change?
You know the kind that makes you say “awww that’s nice…good for her…” How about one with a woman that is paralyzed but due to the amazing technology available today has a prosthetic arms she can ...
Dog boogers enable paralyzed dogs to walk again
OK so it’s not boogers but that makes for a good story don’t it? What they actually used were cells found in the dog’s noses. Pretty amazing. One thing that troubled me about the experiment was the control ...
The slowest slow motion to ever be slowed so we can see light move…slow.
TED Ed has some of the more amazing videos on the internet. Search them out and enjoy. In this one Ramesh Raskar demonstrates his “femto-photography,” a slow motion technique that achieves one trillion frames per secon...
Fastest Camera Ever Made Catches Cells in Action to Catch Cancer
That’s a mouth full. This camera is cool. Cells catching cancer is even cooler. I like the idea of something kicking the shit out of cancer and it being caught on video. Now that’s a fight video I wouldn’t m...
Teenager Beats Riddle That Baffled Isaac Newton
Via the Herald Sun: Shouryya Ray is the first person to work out how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance, The (London) Sunday Times reported. The Indian-born teen said he s...
DARPA Funds First Starship Development
Holy shit that is awesome! It is no longer science fiction. There are plans now, official ones, to build a star ship to allow for humans to achieve interstellar travel. It might take awhile and some of us might not be alive...
The “You Sure You Wanna Do That?” Monday Report
Supervolcano Drilling Plan Gets Go-Ahead You sure you wanna do that? Technology is awesome! I love having a device in my pocket that only 10 years ago would look like a super hi tech device from a sci-fi movie. Oh it’s ju...
Ancient life barely alive found beneath ocean floor
Here is another story proving that life can survive just about anywhere. from the washingtonpost.com Extraordinarily old, bizarrely low-key bacteria have been found in sediments 100 feet below the sea floor of the Pacific Ocean...
Study finds Humans are still evolving
Pretty cool right? Although I know there are some that don’t believe in evolution so I guess those people in particular are NOT evolving. msnbc.msn.com (full story) has the story Natural forces of evolution still continue...
Antibiotic resistant bacteria discovered in isolated New Mexico cave
I am not sure if this is supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing gizmag.com reports: Research into the growing emergence of drug-resistant bacteria could be greatly assisted by the discovery of bacteria from deep within Lech...
Global Doomsday Conference
PRESS RELEASE April 15, 2012, 8:40 a.m. EDT Science Philanthropist, Jeffrey Epstein, Organizes a Global Doomsday Conference The Jeffrey Epstein Foundation convenes an international conference of award winning scientists to iden...
Mysteriously dark Mars regions are made of glass – New Scientist
Visit New Scientist for the full story Mysteriously dark Mars regions are made of glass – space – 15 April 2012 – New Scientist. THEY look dark, but mysterious expanses on Mars are mainly made of glass forged ...
Wanna Talk to a bonobo? There’s an App for that
Thank the gods! It’s about fracking time! I have so many questions I need answers to. I think the RoboBonobo robot might not be a good idea however. It kinda looks like someone cut the head off of one of their buddie...
