Showing posts with label fringe science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fringe science. Show all posts
Friday, September 10, 2010

'Tractor Beam' One Step Closer To Reality: Laser Moves Small Particles

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Members of the scientific team: Yana Izdebskaya, Anton Desyatnikov, Vladlen Shvedov, Andrei Rode, Yuri Kivshar and Wieslaw Krolikowski. (Cre...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Scientists Invent A Tractor Beam

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In "Stak Trek," Federation starships relied upon tractor beams to hold and tow other vessels. Scientists may not be there yet, but...
Thursday, February 4, 2010

Fringe's Killer Biological Weapon Is Rooted in Fact

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From Popular Mechanics: Last week, a lethal virus unleashed in an office building caused us to rethink what would happen in the midst of a r...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Mysterious Radiation May Strike Airline Passengers

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There's a small chance that passengers aboard an airplane flying through a storm may be exposed to high levels of radiation, new researc...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Investigator Checks Out Haunted House For Sale

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A haunted house in Cuchillo, New Mexico, being sold on eBay. Credit: Benjamin Radford From Live Science: There is no shortage of people seek...
Friday, June 5, 2009

Do Dinosaurs Still Exist?

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Conan Doyle's "Lost World," near Angel Falls in the jungles of Venezuela, in a 2007 photo. It was his visit to this area that ...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Fringe Season Finale Flirts With Theoretical Physics

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From Popular Mechanics: During the course of its first season, Fringe has played with the idea of that there are actually two realities, one...
Friday, April 17, 2009

Is Fringe's Genetic Monster Possible?

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(Photograph by Craig Blankenhorn/FOX) From Popular Mechanics: In last night's episode of Fringe, "Unleashed," a genetically ge...
Thursday, February 12, 2009

Could Someone Really Teleport Out of Jail?: Fringe Fact vs. Fiction

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From Popular Mechanics: David Robert Jones is back causing mayhem. In last night's episode of Fringe, "Ability," the villainou...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

Fringe Fact v. Fiction: Could Your Brain Actually Turn to Goo?

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From Popular Mechanics: In its 12th episode, Fringe brought back one of the all-time greatest, grossest sci-fi horrors: Liquefied brains. Wh...
Friday, January 16, 2009

Science Closing In On Cloak Of Invisibility

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From Breitbart/AP: WASHINGTON (AP) - They can't match Harry Potter yet, but scientists are moving closer to creating a real cloak of inv...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Most Extreme News Stories Of 2008

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From New Scientist: It's been a year of extremes for science and technology. From camera footage of the deepest living fish, swimming so...
Thursday, December 4, 2008

Fringe Pushes Probability To The Limit As Characters Walk Through Walls

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(Photograph by Craig Blankenhorn/FOX) From Popular Mechanics: Fringe's 10th episode, "Safe," opens with a team of burglars wh...
Monday, December 1, 2008

Strange Experiments Create Body-Swapping Experiences

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Experimental set-up to induce illusory ownership of an artificial body (left panel). The participant could see the mannequin's body from...