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TweetIn the name of Science, we destroy. In this case, the $79 million LCROSS spacecraft NASA sent crashing into the Cabeus crater at the south pole of the Moon on October 9th, 2009. Now the reports are in and what did we find? Water, and lots of it … compared to, you know, what you’d [...]
TweetGliese 581 is a star, a red dwarf star to be specific, that’s about 20 light years from Earth. Slap a ‘G’ on the end of that name and you have the sixth observed exoplanet in that solar system (gliesean system?). That’s cool, exoplanets are still fun but we’ve found over 400 of them now [...]
TweetThough it may be hard to believe, Neptune, once again the farthest planet from the Sun (in our solar system) thanks to Pluto’s demotion, completes it’s first orbit around the Sun in two day’s time. What that means is that on August 20th, Neptune will have traveled fully around the Sun for the first time [...]
TweetFirst of all Dean Kamen, sorry, but seriously the Segway is retarded. Moving on, the “Luke” arm created by Kamen for DARPA is amazing, and not just because he’s nerdy enough to name the thing after our favorite fictional amputee and I think Stephen Colbert would agree. The robotic arm has been in development for [...]
TweetA team of researchers at the University of Washington has successfully used therapeutic genes to allow colorblind, adult Squirrel Monkeys to distinguish between red and green again. Something intriguing indeed to this colorblind man’s heart. Though they aren’t testing the process on humans yet, it’s important to note that the monkeys were adults as it [...]
TweetStraight out of the land of “Someone Got Paid to Do This” comes the mathematical apocalypse known as When Zombies Attack! A team of mathematicians from the University of Ottawa have taken the time (and money) to calculate how fast the spread of undead will occur should the popular doomsday scenario outbreak begin (finally!). It’s [...]
TweetFirst, the background. When you electrically charge a block of plastic and then strike the plastic with a nail you get what we see on the left there, termed “frozen lightning”. In truth it’s actually a series of tunnels carved out of the middle of the plastic when the electrically charged particles race toward the [...]
TweetTake a good look at that guy, he is the face of Evil. Well he’s at least the computer generated face of E, an artificial intelligence specifically programed to be … evil. Yes, this does immediately make everyone say, “why?” which leads to the obvious answer, “for science!” Selmer Bringsjord of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [...]
TweetLaunched in March of this year, NASA’s latest planet-hunting telescope, Kepler, has just turned in it’s first report. The result was gas giant HAT-P-7b, a planet with an orbit of 2.2 days and a surface temperature of over 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit, known as a “Hot Jupiter”. Sure ol’ HATtie has been spotted before but what’s [...]
