Wednesday, August 19, 2009

NASA Successfully Tests Nuclear Reactor to Power Future Moon Bases

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Gone Fission : See it bigger . John MacNeil From Popular Science: For a while now, NASA has been planning to use a nuclear fission reactor t...

Tight Budget Quashes US Space Ambitions: Panel

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Orion Exploration Vehicle From Breitbart/AFP: US ambitions for manned space exploration have hit a major hurdle in the wake of severe budget...

New DNA Test Uses Nanotechnology To Find Early Signs Of Cancer

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In this illustration by Yi Zhang, quantum dots are depicted as gold spheres that attract DNA strands linked to cancer risks. When the quantu...

Hunting: So Easy A Cave Man Could Do It

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Anthropologists work to excavate Qesem Cave, where early human hunters carved up their prey. The cave was discovered in Israel about nine ye...

How To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel

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Turning water into jet fuel (Image: Stocktrek Images/Getty) From New Scientist: Faced with global warming and potential oil shortages, the U...

Good Vibrations Generate Electricity

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PARTS LIST: Relying on the piezoelectric effect, a phenomenon in which certain crystals and other materials generate electricity when twiste...

Egypt Warns Pharaohs' Tombs Could Disappear

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A view of King Tutenkhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, close to Luxor in 2007. The ornate pharaonic tombs in Egypt's Valley o...

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show

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From The New York Times: Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining the credibility o...

The Most Exciting Cars of 2010

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STAN HONDA / AFP / Getty From Time Magazine: The popularity of the Jeep Grand Cherokee was instrumental in launching the SUV boom of the 199...

Strep Throat May Have Killed Mozart

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FILE - This is an undated portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. What killed Mozart so suddenly in 1791? A report in Tuesday's Annals of I...

In The Pursuit Of Easy Money

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Legal pounds Photo: CORBIS From The Telegraph: One in every fifty £1 coins is a fake, but the dark art of counterfeiting has been fascina...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Honey-bee Aggression Study Suggests Nurture Alters Nature

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The study looked at bee aggression in European (pictured) and Africanized honey bees. (Credit: Photo by Diana Yates) From Science Daily: Sci...

How It Works: Protecting New Orleans With The World's Largest Water Pump

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Foiling the Flood Graham Murdoch From Popular Science: New Orleans sits smack dab between the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain, and w...

Internet 'Immune System' Could Block Viruses

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Getting ISPs to cooperate could help in the fight against worms (Image: Thomas Northcut/Getty) From New Scientist: IT IS 0530 UTC, 25 Januar...

The Science Behind That Fresh Seaside Smell

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The smell of fresh sea air is unmistakable Photo: Getty From The Telegraph: A tiny molecule lurks behind the evocative smell of the seasi...

Can Geoengineering Help Slow Global Warming?

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From Time Magazine: As we pump billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we're doing more than warming the planet and scra...

Popcorn And Cereals – The New Superfoods?

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Popcorn contains high levels of antioxidants, according to a study by US chemical experts. From The Guardian: Scientists discover surprising...

How Fast Can Man Run?

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Click Image to Enlarge From The Daily Mail: As Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt smashes his own world record, are there ANY limits to what the h...

New Nanolaser Key To Future Optical Computers And Technologies

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Researchers have created the tiniest laser since its invention nearly 50 years ago. Because the new device, called a "spaser," is ...

Cloaking Technology May Protect From Natural Disasters

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Like sound or light waves, tsunamis have a wavelength, crests and troughs that could be cancelled out to effectively cloak, say, an oil rig ...