A New Helmet Keeps Your Head On Straight
• PopSci.comThe Lazer Solano SuperSkin keeps a rider's head aligned during a crash
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Launch of secret US space ship masks even more secret launch of new weapon
• By Michael Evans, timesonline.co.ukSomewhere above earth is America’s latest spaceship, a 30ft craft so classified that the Pentagon will not divulge its mission nor how much it cost to build. The mysterious X37B, launched successfully by the US Air Force from Cape Canaveral on Thurs
Neanderthal Linkage Uncovered in human DNA
• arcleinA major DNA study suggests that our ancestors interbred with the Neanderthals at least twice tens of thousands of years ago - and that their genes have been carried down the millennia ever since. The discovery adds to the mystery surrounding the
New Metamaterial First to Bend Light in the Visible Spectrum
• PopSci.comPut another way, it bends light the opposite way one might expect, irrespective of the angle or polarization of incoming light waves. Put yet another way: We're getting closer to that invisibility cloak we've been looking for.
When Life Flashes Before Your Eyes: A 15-Story Drop to Study the Brain's Internal Timewarp
• PopSci.comWhy does time seem to slow down during a life-threatening situation? Our reporter falls 15 stories to find out
Photo Collection from Iceland
• arcleinGo to this site for some great images. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html
NASA Spectacular Images From Sun
• arcleinhttp://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2010/04/21/aia_cme_closeup_20100408-H0200-H0500_304-171.mp4 http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2010/04/21/hmi_magnetogram.mp4
Tree Ring Release
• arcleinIn a landmark ruling, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office has ruled that Queen’s University Belfast must hand over data obtained during 40 years of research into 7,000 years of Irish tree rings to a City banker and part-time climate analyst, Dou
Graphene Films Clear Fabrication Hurdle
• arcleinThey have successfully used direct chemical vapor deposition (CVD) to synthesize single-layer films of graphene on a dielectric substrate.
Be Very Scared about Katla
• arcleinBut suffice it to say that what a lens can’t begin to adequately capture is the sheer size and unbelievable force of that volcanic ice mixing with superheated magma: a mountain belching out tons of molten rock is a mind-blowing spectacle.
Science in the Muslim World
• arcleinMuslim countries also have fewer than 10 scientists, engineers and technicians per 1000 of the population, compared with the world average of 40, and 140 for the developed world.
Human Chromosome Fusion
• arcleinCan you see the problem here? The Chimp is supposed to be our closest known genetic relative and yet it has almost twice as many genes as humans. New research has revealed that Dolphin DNA is very closely related to humans. This will not be surprisin
Twitter Ads Test Billion-Dollar Valuation
• WiredTwitter, the net’s largest micro-publishing service, launched an advertising service Tuesday that will let advertisers — beginning with some of the world’s top brands such as Starbucks — have their tweets show up in the top of search results. It’s a
High School Inventors Design for the Future: 2010 Conrad Awards Winners
• PopSci.comThis past weekend, high school students from all over the country gathered at California's NASA Ames Research Center to meet their brilliant peers, present their groundbreaking research -- and chat with interested venture capitalists on the side.
British Scientists Create First-Ever Room-Temperature Magnetic Monopole
• PopSci.comLate last year, English scientists created the first real-world instance of spin ice, a long-hypothesized type of crystal that can behave as a magnet with only one pole.
Source Of Zodiac Glow Identified
• arcleinn meteor showers, he had noticed that most consist of dust moving in orbits similar to those of Jupiter Family comets, but without having active dust-oozing comets associated with them.
Invasive Fish and Mussels Transfer Toxins
• arcleinTwo notorious Great Lakes invaders-the zebra mussel and the round goby-now play a central role in transferring toxic chemicals called PCBs up the food chain and into Saginaw Bay walleyes, one of that region's most popular sport fish.
Icelandic Ash Cloud Grounds Europe
• arcleinThousand of flights were cancelled, stranding tens of thousands of passengers, and officials said it was not clear when it would be safe enough to fly again. In a sobering comment, one scientist in Iceland said the ejection of volcanic ash - and t
Massive fireball reported across Midwestern sky
• CNN.com(CNN) -- Authorities in several Midwestern states were flooded Wednesday night with reports of a gigantic fireball lighting up the sky, the National Weather Service said. The fireball was visible for about 15 minutes beginning about 10 p.m., said th
The Mothman
• arcleinEyewitnesses alleged that Mothman could fly without flapping its wings, and could match the speed of an automobile trying to flee at 100 miles an hour. The creature never seemed to flap its wings when rising from the ground—it evidently was able to r
Mackenzie River Pleistocene Flood
• arcleinThe researchers scoured tumbled boulders and gravel terraces along the Mackenzie River for signs of the meltwater's passage. The flood "would solve a big problem if it actually happened", says oceanographer Wally Broecker of Columbia University's
Chemistry Discovery for Cooking Oil
• arcleinJessop's new method of making oil involves a "switchable" solvent. This solvent is hydrophobic, meaning it mixes with oils and doesn't like water. But when carbon dioxide is added, the solvent becomes hydrophilic,
Sequoia Fiery Tree Rings
• arcleinThe giant sequoias in California's Sequoia National Park are far too thick to be cored for the extraction of the pencil-thin cores typically used by tree ring researchers. So the authors of a new report on tree ring evidence of past droughts and fir
Spider Silk Research
• arcleinResearchers found that spider silk employs a unique crystal structure that converts an otherwise weak material into one stronger and less brittle than steel or ceramics.
Dense Plasma Physics Update
• arcleinSince mid-month, we have increased that to 90% good shots. The two time-of-flight neutron detectors have produced more evidence that we are already duplicating the high ion energies achieved with higher currents in the Texas experiments
Psychics Tackle Prisons
• arcleinPaul van Bree, a self-styled "paragnost" or clairvoyant, has been hired by the Dutch prison service to teach prisoners how to "love themselves". "I tell them that dead relatives are doing well and that they love them. That brings them peace.
Lake Agassiz Mega Flood
• arcleinEurope was plunged into a mini ice age 13,000 years ago after global warming caused a mega-flood, geologists said today. Mark Bateman from the University of Sheffield, said a catastrophic flood was caused when an ice sheet in the U.S melted caus
Sub Sea Volcano Near Italy
• arcleinEurope's largest undersea volcano could disintegrate and unleash a tsunami that would engulf southern Italy "at any time", a prominent vulcanologist warned in an interview published Monday. The Marsili volcano, which is bursting with magma, has
Heaven and Science
• arcleinThere are those who believe that science will eventually explain everything—including our enduring belief in heaven.
Scientists to Levitate Drops of Liquid to Study Glass
• Live SciencePhysicists are building a levitation chamber to suspend a drop of liquid in mid-air and watch its atoms as it cools into glass.
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