Friday, July 6, 2012

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Graphene Pores When water molecules (red and white) and sodium and chlorine ions (green and purple) encounter a sheet of graphene (pale blue...

Is A New Dust Bowl Forming In The U.S.?

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Rising Temperatures and Drought Create Fears Of A New Dust Bowl -- Bryan Walsh, Time Triple-digit days. Weeks with little to no rain. Soil c...

A Spectacular 15 Second Fireworks Display

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San Diego Accidentally Set Off All Its Fourth Of July Fireworks at Once -- Atlantic Wire Folks in San Diego witnessed what was either the wo...

Drones Of The Future

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Maple Seed Drones Will Swarm The Future -- TPM Imagine a cheap, tiny, hovering aerial drone capable of being launched with the flick of a pe...

U.S. Military Looks At The Future

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Was stealth a game-changer? Here maintainers and crew chiefs prepare B-2 stealth bombers for Operation Odyssey Dawn on March 19, 2011. Senio...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Why Is It Hot Outside?

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What's Behind The Record Heat? -- Discovery News Heat is beating records around the country: the first five months of 2012 have been the...

How Bees Reverse Brain Aging

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Old bees collect nectar and pollen. Most bees start doing this job when they are 3-4 weeks old, and after that they age very quickly. Their ...

Is The U.S. Losing It's 'Space Edge'?

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Bill Nye: U.S. Risks Losing Its Space Edge -- Richard Galant, CNN (CNN) -- Years before Bill Nye became the Science Guy, he was a mechanical...

10 Workplace Secrets Of Flight Attendants

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10 Shocking Secrets of Flight Attendants -- Mental Floss Heather Poole has worked for a major carrier for more than 15 years and is the auth...

Here Comes The Blimp

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Northrop Grumman Flying Hippopotamus Over Afghanistan: $500 Million-Plus -- The Nation The Pentagon has officially outdone itself: even as t...
Monday, July 2, 2012

Apple Wants Certain Domain Names

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Now Apple Wants iPad3.com -- Red Orbit It’s a little late, but Apple is now demanding they obtain the rights to the iPad3.com domain. Of cou...

Staying Sane On A Research Ship In The Middle Of The Ocean

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How To Stay Sane On A Ship In The Middle Of The Ocean -- Scientific American The Knorr is a big ship as far as research vessels go – but the...

The Reason Why Tomatoes Are Flavorless Today

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Getty Images Your Tomatoes Are Flavorless, Right? Here's Why -- Time There are two pieces of late-breaking news on the tomato beat this ...

How The Discovery Of The Higgs Boson Could Break Physics

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Image: The giant detector for the CMS experiment, one of the main Higgs-searching experiments at the LHC. CMS collaboration/CERN How The Dis...

Injecting Oxygen Into The Blood

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Blood: Injecting oxygen into the bloodstream could help keep patients who cannot breathe alive while undergoing medical treatment Scientist ...

Hints Of The Higgs Boson Detected Last Year By A US "Atom Smasher"

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The Tevatron was shut down at the end of last year US Sees Stronger Hints Of Higgs -- BBC Hints of the Higgs boson detected last year by a U...

Privacy Is Big Business For Trial Lawyers

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Legal discovery: The billboard is imaginary, but the trend is real. Trial lawyers are ramping up lawsuits over online privacy breaches. Flic...

Five Millionth 'Test Tube Baby' Born

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Louise Brown, pictured with her son, was the world's first test tube baby Five Millionth 'Test Tube Baby' -- BBC Five million ...

Inside A Souped-Up Sci-Fi DeLorean

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Inside Ecto88, Ernie Cline’s Souped-Up Sci-Fi DeLorean -- Underwire Ernie Cline is just begging for a speeding ticket in his souped-up DeLor...

Will Wearable Computing Be The Norm?

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Babak Parviz (right) demos Project Glass on stage with Sergey Brin by his side. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Google Glass Team: ‘Wearable Co...