Category Archives: Science

Science and an 18-year-old Student Win the Day

This is incredible. A student invented a transistor that will allow a battery to recharge in seconds. An 18-year-old science student has made an astonishing breakthrough that will enable mobile phones and other batteries to be charged within seconds rather … Continue reading
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Video: SpaceX “Grasshopper” Test Flight

Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully completed a 250 meter test flight of their “Grasshopper” rocket this week which will some day be part of a reusable vertical takeoff and landing vehicle. They produced this awesome video of the event. Continue reading
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These Are the Voyages…

Finally, it looks like NASA is developing a faster, lighter, more affordable form of rocket propulsion. Here comes the Fusion Drive! NASA, and plenty of private individuals, want to put mankind on Mars. Now a team at the University of … Continue reading
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A Crypto-Anarchist’s Dream of 3D Gun Printing

Three dimensional printing technology isn’t new, but Cody Wilson, self-described “Crypto-Anarchist” and “Director” of a two-bit company called, Defense Distributed, isn’t at all happy with any and all talk of gun control and has taken it upon himself to see to … Continue reading
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The Jetsons At 50 Is A Wrap

It’s a wrap. Matt Novak started the project, “50 Years Of The Jetsons: Why The Show Still Matters,” last September, and this week he put the finishing touches on what’s been a grand dissection of the show’s influence and cultural … Continue reading
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I Don’t Like These Odds

You should think twice before you agree to having a CT scan. You know, because of the cancer: In 2007, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the radiation from CT scans — the tests regularly … Continue reading
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It’s Raining Fire

We do share bits of Space Porn here from time to time, and this seems to be as good of a candidate as any. This video, released by NASA last week, depicts what they’re referring to as “coronal rain” which … Continue reading
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Scientists Create Zombie Cells

Yes, really. Biological researchers have created dead ‘zombie’ cells in the lab which outperform living cells. Seriously. A team at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico have innovated a technique whereby mammalian cells are coated with silica … Continue reading
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Republicans Are Dominating State Politics, Destroying Science

My Thursday column: Many of us are enjoying our post-election schadenfreude, observing as the Republican Party increasingly marginalizes itself, demographically and politically, and scrambles to cut a narrowing path to the White House while also attempting to shove the tea … Continue reading
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Walter Cronkite Predicted the Future

And he was pretty damn accurate. I love this stuff. Here he predicts Skype, the internet and telecommuting.

Not so accurate on kitchens. Maybe fast food kitchens, but not home kitchens.

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