Cold fusion, maybe p'raps?

Several zeroes percentage more powerful than gasoline.

by pete56 2013-05-24 06:42:31 | 0 reads | 3 comments

LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann: DED

Albert Hofmann, the pioneering Swiss chemist and advocate of psychedelics who discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, died Tuesday. He was 102.

by MstrLance 2013-05-01 08:14:36 | 0 reads | 3 comments

We are the gods now

(YouLube warning)

by freakmachine 2013-04-30 01:23:04 | 0 reads | comment

WE ARE STAR PEOPLE: Scientific proof we were created by aliens.

Kazakhstan does science.

by dragonstaff 2013-04-18 23:25:08 | 0 reads | 29 comments

Mantis Shrimps!

Bow to our new Dark Overlords.

by freakmachine 2013-04-16 05:51:01 | 0 reads | comment

Turn On Your Blood Light...Let It Shine On Me

Can't find your flashlight? Just slit your wrists, and light up the room.

by BeachGoat 2013-04-09 00:42:20 | 0 reads | 1 comment

Walking with Rover. On Mars

woof!...bzzzz

by pete56 2013-04-03 11:36:48 | 0 reads | comment

Death doesn't exist says scientist

Lanza admitted that the reviews haven't all been glowing, particularly among some physicists. "Their response has been much how you'd expect priests to respond to stem cell research," he said.

by pete56 2013-03-21 12:02:48 | 0 reads | 3 comments

Kali - The Last Polar Bear Cub

Aww, it looks like a lil teddy bear

by r0b0c0p 2013-03-21 07:32:31 | 0 reads | 3 comments

Was Stonehenge a Fancy Graveyard?

Analysis of the site suggests that it started as a burial site for the upper crust of a society from 3000BC.

by BeachGoat 2013-03-11 03:59:48 | 0 reads | 1 comment

Kill the hiv wit bee venom(-laced nanoparticles)

meep it. This one'll work for SURE.

by spankerchief 2013-03-10 03:49:08 | 0 reads | comment

Bacon will kill you!

NOOOOO!!!!

by dragonstaff 2013-03-07 10:14:03 | 0 reads | comment

One rat brain 'talks' to another using electronic link

Scientists have connected the brains of lab rats, allowing one to communicate directly to another via cables.

by middle_age_man 2013-03-03 01:57:36 | 0 reads | 2 comments

Meteor explodes in the sky above Russia, injuring hundreds

The Russian Academy of Sciences is estimating that a meteor, which streaked into the skies over the Ural Mountains and caused shock waves that injured hundreds of people, weighed about 10 tons.

by middle_age_man 2013-02-16 01:15:47 | 0 reads | 1 comment

Incurable TB spreading in South Africa.

Welcome the new Plague.

by spankerchief 2013-02-15 16:05:01 | 0 reads | 2 comments

African dung beetles use the Milky Way to navigate at night

Bugs, meep, and a bunch of stars.

by pete56 2013-01-31 21:46:06 | 0 reads | comment

African dung beetles use the Milky Way to navigate at night

Bugs, meep, and a bunch of stars.

by pete56 2013-01-31 21:46:05 | 0 reads | comment

Departing Space Station Commander Provides Tour of Orbital Laboratory

In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18, just hours before she, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency departed in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft for a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan. The tour includes scenes of each of the station's modules and research facilities with a running narrative by Williams of the work that has taken place and which is ongoing aboard the orbital outpost.

by middle_age_man 2013-01-19 13:46:23 | 0 reads | comment

Santa explained by mushrooms

Flying Santa: revealed wisdom by the shroom god

by freakmachine 2012-12-31 19:53:12 | 0 reads | 2 comments

Why do we blink so often?

Apparently it gives our brain a rest.

by graycube 2012-12-27 19:48:33 | 0 reads | comment

NanoHub - Online simulation for nanotechnology

Rad. Better than bacon.

by freakmachine 2012-12-27 05:33:23 | 0 reads | comment

IQ 'a myth'

The idea that intelligence can be measured by a single number -- your IQ -- is wrong, according to a recent study led by researchers at the University of Western Ontario

by middle_age_man 2012-12-23 19:09:12 | 0 reads | 5 comments

Land Creatures Might Not Have Come From The Sea

Yay!

by freakmachine 2012-12-15 17:53:27 | 0 reads | 3 comments

"Iron Snail" inspires new armor.

m/ Metal m/

by spankerchief 2012-12-10 11:45:46 | 0 reads | 7 comments

Saturn's polar storm

Sandy was a microbe pipsqueak.

by pete56 2012-12-01 13:23:50 | 0 reads | 1 comment

Soft drink raises prostate cancer risk.

Keep away from the sugary meep, guys,

by dragonstaff 2012-11-27 20:43:59 | 0 reads | 6 comments

Life, Death, & Salami

It's Good to Know Your Food!

by BeachGoat 2012-11-26 02:43:21 | 0 reads | 6 comments

Pigeon Code Baffles British Cryptographers

Britain's code-breakers acknowledged Friday that an encrypted handwritten message from World War II, found on the leg of a long-dead carrier pigeon in a household chimney in southern England, has thwarted all their efforts to decode it since it was sent to them last month.

by middle_age_man 2012-11-26 02:43:13 | 0 reads | comment

Colorado Chefs Go Ganja

Thanks to new laws, top chefs are cooking Green in the Rockies.

by BeachGoat 2012-11-19 22:45:30 | 0 reads | comment

Super Material Can Stop Speeding Bullet

One step closer to Terminator

by gork 2012-11-16 22:37:16 | 0 reads | 3 comments

Wind map of the continental U.S.

It won't stop blowin' me.

by pete56 2012-11-07 12:32:40 | 0 reads | 7 comments

Nikon's Small World photo contest, one year on...

Very cool captures of 30 teeny things seen through a microscope

by pete56 2012-11-07 00:25:44 | 0 reads | comment

The walking dead invade CERN

Particle accelerator runs amok...in a goofy sci fi way.

by pete56 2012-11-03 19:04:37 | 0 reads | comment

Fukushima Fish Still Radioactive

Wait, you mean all of that didn't just evaporate?

by witty_screen_name 2012-10-27 13:04:32 | 0 reads | comment

Living deep sea power cables

Swaths of ocean floor may pulse gently with energy from a newly discovered bacteria.

by spankerchief 2012-10-27 13:04:27 | 0 reads | 1 comment

Why do you hate that sound?

http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/archive/Industrial/School-classroom-sounds/Fingernails-On-the-Chalkboard/20008

by pete56 2012-10-17 17:40:57 | 0 reads | comment

Fearless Felix lands on his feet!

Unmeepingbelievable. They oughta call him Felix the Cat now.

by Bobgoblin 2012-10-15 14:04:23 | 0 reads | comment

Are we a part of the matrix?

Physicists say there may be a way to prove that we live in a computer simulation

by pete56 2012-10-12 09:24:51 | 0 reads | 2 comments

Mars rover finds shiny thing. Let the wild specualtions begin.

Perhaps your never found stolen bike?

by pete56 2012-10-12 09:18:00 | 0 reads | comment

Military service causes breast cancer

Military women are 20 percent to 40 percent more likely to get the disease than other women in the same age groups, and officials say they're not sure why dozens of men who lived and worked at Camp Lejeune, N.C., have developed the disease.

by MstrLance 2012-10-04 18:32:34 | 0 reads | 2 comments

Comet ISON: 30% chance of awesome, 60% chance of that being wrong

It could be astonishingly bright, or it could fizzle. I think it was David Levy who said that comets are like cats: they have tails, and do whatever they want to do.

by godevillivedog 2012-09-29 23:24:05 | 0 reads | comment

Record Ocean Temperatures Recorded Off New England Coast.

"A pronounced warming event occurred on the Northeast Shelf this spring, and this will have a profound impact throughout the ecosystem,"

by godevillivedog 2012-09-26 01:11:53 | 0 reads | 2 comments

The Allen Brain Atlas

A growing collection of online public resources integrating extensive gene expression and neuroanatomical data, complete with a novel suite of search and viewing tools.

by MstrLance 2012-09-23 07:41:08 | 0 reads | 1 comment

Mysterioius underwater crop circles

Something's fishy here.

by freakmachine 2012-09-22 18:14:40 | 0 reads | comment

Build the Enterprise

Believe. It's gonna happen.

by freakmachine 2012-09-19 10:19:50 | 0 reads | 2 comments

Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks

An intellectual pestilence is upon us.

by MstrLance 2012-09-16 14:46:36 | 0 reads | comment

Bad diet causes alzheimer's?

Junk food, FTW

by freakmachine 2012-09-16 14:46:30 | 0 reads | comment

New Species of African Monkey Discovered

First time western researchers discovered it anyway.

by Danny_Inferno 2012-09-14 03:31:38 | 0 reads | 2 comments

'Junk DNA' concept debunked by new analysis of human genome

Most of a person's genetic risk for common diseases such as diabetes, asthma and hardening of the arteries appears to lie in the shadowy part of the human genome once disparaged as "junk DNA."

by middle_age_man 2012-09-09 12:50:55 | 0 reads | 4 comments

Android Phones Will Power NASA's New Fleet of Mini-Satellites

The philosophy behind these launches is quite similar to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial mindset--to "launch the lowest-cost and easiest to build satellites ever flown in space,"

by godevillivedog 2012-09-05 08:56:45 | 0 reads | comment