Sunday, April 5, 2009

Hydrogen Cars Closer To Reality With New Storage System

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Issam Mudawar, from left, a Purdue professor of mechanical engineering, discusses a hydrogen-storage system for cars with graduate student M...

How Baseball Players Catch Fly Balls

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From Live Science: With the crack of the bat, you see the ball jump into the air. You take a few quick steps forward. Then, as you watch the...

World's Largest Telescope Will Search Heavens For Habitable Planets Like Earth

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Mission Incredible: The Extremely Large Telescope will be even more powerful than the Very Large Telescope, pictured here . From The Telegra...

Is Voicemail Obsolete?

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CHANGING TIMES “Once upon a time, voice mail was useful,” said Yen Cheong. Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times You’ve Got Voice Mail, but Do Y...

How Microbes Can Power America’s Future

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From Christian Science Monitor: Scientists use tiny organisms to create fuel, viruses to make batteries. For millenniums, microbes have been...
Saturday, April 4, 2009

Muslim Students Weigh In On Evolution

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Photo: The data could help teachers and students from diverse backgrounds work together better. Punchstock From Nature News: In Indonesia a...

Gamma-Ray Burst Caused Mass Extinction?

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Gamma-ray bursts are thought to be streams of high-energy radiation produced when the core of a very massive star collapses, as seen in the ...

'Eureka Machine' Puts Scientists In The Shade By Working Out Laws Of Nature

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From The Gaurdian: The machine, which took only a few hours to come up with Newton's laws of motion, marks a turning point in the way sc...

Wind Turbines Could More Than Meet U.S. Electricity Needs, Report Says

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From The L.A. Times: The Interior Department report, which looks at the potential of wind turbines off the U.S. coast, is part of the govern...

How Herpes Re-Rears Its Ugly Head

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Activity of the VP16 gene (light blue) and the presence of other viral proteins (light purple) in these mouse nerve cells are signs of the h...

Sleep May Help Clear Brain For New Learning

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Washington University scientists used genetically modified fruit flies to track the creation of new brain synapses, junctures where two brai...

Chocolate Helps With ... Math?

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Photo from The San Francisco Sentinel From Live Science: Chocolate, which we write about a lot here, is no cure-all. But in small amounts, d...

Murdoch Calls Google, Yahoo Copyright Thieves — Is He Right?

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From Wired News: Rupert Murdoch, the owner of News Corp. and The Wall Street Journal, says Google and Yahoo are giant copyright scofflaws th...
Friday, April 3, 2009

How Long Would it Take Piranhas To Eat A Person?

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Feeding Frenzy: A school of piranhas could strip your flesh in five minutes. Adek Berry/Getty Images From PopSci.com: Is the fish's dea...

New Cosmic Map Reveals Colossal Structures

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The new survey mapped the positions of more than 100,000 galaxies. The black strips are areas the survey did not cover because matter in our...

Virus-Built Battery Could Power Cars, Electronic Devices

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Angela Belcher holds a display of the virus-built battery she helped engineer. The battery -- the silver-colored disc -- is being used to po...

Beverage Consumption A Bigger Factor In Weight, Study Shows

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When it comes to weight loss, what you drink may be more important than what you eat. (Credit: iStockphoto) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily...

Dogs Do Look Like Owners

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From Live Science: People can guess pretty successfully what breed of dog a person might own just by looking at the owner, a new study finds...

Building A Brain On A Silicon Chip

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Image : A smart chip: Scientists in Europe are using conventional chip production techniques to create circuits that mimic the structure and...

Plan B For Energy: 8 Revolutionary Energy Sources

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From Scientific American: If efficiency improvements and incremental advances in today's technologies fail to halt global warming, could...