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Invisibility Cloak Project Becomes More Realistic [Science] (1)
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Invisibility cloak project is back on! It's from a different team of scientists that were using silver-plated nanoparticles in water though, with these latest Harry Potter enthusiasts using photonic metamaterials to change light rays. More »Shared by Mookyjooky (90)Comment View comments -
Lazer Tits (1)
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Lazer Tits is the new Babies With Laser Eyes. For centuries the female bosom has been wrongfully held in the prison of maternal duty and manboy motor-boating. The time has come to blow the cell doors open for breasts! Howl for hooters! Get toasted by tits! Behold the blazing boobs! It’s time to get ZAPPED!!!! LAZERTITS looks into the past and changes the future one broad at a time. What will YOU say when your ...Shared by Joe (4)Comment View comments -
Highest energy ever (3)
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At this very moment the LHC is busy trying to set a new world record. The goal is to achieve beams circulating at 3.5 TeV, bringing collisions between protons to 3.5+3.5=7 TeV center-of-mass energy. This would be the highest particle energy ever accomplished by humans (nature somehow routinely manages to produce cosmic rays at energies 8 orders of magnitude higher!). This news is hot off the press: we had a talk today by Lyn Evans, ...Comment View comments -
Take A (micro) Hike! (1)
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Spring season officially begins this weekend. It's time for kite flying, gardening, and taking hikes! But there is no need to go full out -- start slow. Design the kite, start some seedlings, and take a micro-hike. What's a micro-hike you ask? It is a trek like no other, where you may climb mountainous peaks, cross deep chasms, and encounter fantastic monsters -- all with just a few short steps. For this journey, you only ...Shared by Christina (28)Comment View comments -
Quantum State Created In Largest Object Yet (3)
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SpuriousLogic writes "A team of researchers have created a 'quantum state' in an object billions of times larger than ever before. From the article: 'Such states, in which an object is effectively in two places at once, have until now only been accomplished with single particles, atoms and molecules. In this experiment, published in the journal Nature, scientists produced a quantum state in an object billions of times larger than previous tests. The team says ...- JF said: What they don't say is that they put that damn cat into their quantum machine.
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Making Water Run Uphill, With Lasers [Water] (4)
onResearchers at the University of Rochester have discovered how to make liquid overcome gravity and flow upward along a silicon surface. The essential ingredient, as always: lasers. More »Comment View comments
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Rentokil's misleading marketing is "brilliant" (1)
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British bug-killing company Rentokil recently put out a press release containing made-up numbers about the prevalance of bug infestations on public transport. The missive — "2,000 bugs taking a ride in every train compartment," parsed one quality daily — resulted in widespread condemnation. Especially on Twitter, where Rentokil went from zero to defensive in record time. And bafflement resulted: I asked Rentokil for more details on what vehicles they had studied, where, and how, what ...Shared by Mike (357)Comment View comments -
Rentokil's misleading marketing is "brilliant" (1)
onBritish bug-killing company Rentokil recently put out a press release containing made-up numbers about the prevalance of bug infestations on public transport. The missive — "2,000 bugs taking a ride in every train compartment," parsed one quality daily — resulted in widespread condemnation. Especially on Twitter, where Rentokil went from zero to defensive in record time. And bafflement resulted: I asked Rentokil for more details on what vehicles they had studied, where, and how, what ...Shared by Artur (20)Comment View comments
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Five Ways You Probably Wouldn’t Die In a Vacuum, and One Way You Probably Would [Mad Science] (4)
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No space travel movie would be complete without someone getting shoved out of an airlock and dying horribly. This handy guide will help you ascertain how fake these airlockings really are - and get over your fear of sliding doors. More »- Dee said: Interesting, but warning for a still of That Scene from Total Recall (you know the one I mean) as the header. I have this Thing about eyes, you see...
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Glow-in-the-dark sperm shed light on sexual selection (1)
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By genetically altering fruit flies so that the heads of their sperm were fluorescent green or red, scientists were able to observe "in striking detail what happens to live sperm inside the female", Syracuse University reported today. "Our jaws hit the floor the first time we looked through a microscope and saw these glowing sperm. It turns out that they are constantly on the move within the female's specialized sperm-storage organs and exhibit surprisingly complex ...Shared by tietoukka (157)Comment View comments -
Climate change cited as Mont. leases suspended
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AP - A federal judge has approved a first-of-its-kind settlement requiring the government to suspend 38,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Montana so it can gauge how oil field activities contribute to climate change.Shared by Ron (812)Comment View comments -
What's more awesome than discovering a temperate planet outside our solar system? (4)
onHow about discovering a temperate planet outside our solar system that will actually be relatively easy to study? Spanish researchers have done just that, according to Science News. The newly spotted planet, COROT-9b, is 1,500 light years away. It isn't, itself, Earth-like—think something more akin to Jupiter or Saturn—but its atmosphere might contain water vapor, and, if it turns out to have any moons, those could be habitable. Most important, though, is the fact that ...Comment View comments
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Discovery’s “Life,” Coming This Sunday (1)
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Here’s a quick teaser to a larger post tomorrow. Discovery and the BBC are about to release Life, their followup effort to Planet Earth, the massive nature documentary from a few years back. Like Earth, Life is shot in HD with lots of slow motion, bizarre locales, and — the focus this time — unusual living creatures. In the clip below, check out the stalk-eyed fly, an insect that inflates its own head with air. ...Shared by Jenny (92)Comment View comments -
CoRoT-9b - новая экзопланета, похожая на Землю (2)
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Объект, получивший обозначение CoRoT-9b, отделен от нас расстоянием в 1500 световых лет, но это первая экзопланета, на которой, вероятно, существуют близкие к земным условия.Shared by Pepsichka (82) StalkerNOVA (443)Comment View comments -
supersized quantum mechanics (1)
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The day I see ”double-decker buses simultaneously stopping and going” is the day I remove my cat from its hermetically sealed box: Cleland and his team took a more direct measure of quantum weirdness at the large scale. They began with a a tiny mechanical paddle, or ‘quantum drum’, around 30 micrometres long that vibrates when set in motion at a particular range of frequencies. Next they connected the paddle to a superconducting electrical circuit ...Shared by Mike (357)Comment View comments -
Science for Haiti (2)
onEcological issues like soil erosion and deforestation play a major role in keeping Haiti locked in a cycle of poverty. The Haiti Regeneration Initiative is working to help Haitians improve their environment and, with it, their lives. I LOVE seeing science in action like this! (Via Jorge Salazar)Shared by Andrew (44) Cesar (13)Comment View comments
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Good sentences (7)
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"We originally wrote this article in Word, but then we converted it to Latex to make it look more like science." The link is here. It is the best analysis of zombification I have seen to date. For the pointer I thank John Chilton.Comment View comments -
Once upon a time we remembered phone numbers (2)
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Dave Pell has an excellently written, if slightly melodramatic, post on forgetting telephone numbers, My Head is in the Clouds: “…My head was once filled with bits and pieces of information like phone numbers, to-do lists, and addresses. I’ve ceded that responsibility to technology. Last summer, I forgot my friend Norman’s birthday. We’ve known each other since elementary school. …Now, after a few years of this, I realize that when I look up from the ...Shared by Colin (156) SFSlim (42)Comment View comments -
Is BGI doing science? (3)
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华大基因 logo" /> 华大基因 logo" /> 华大基因BGI In a decade, the global Human Genome Project sequenced 3 billion DNA base pairs. Today, a single machine (the Illumina HiSeq™ 2000) can sequence 25 billion base pairs per day, and BGI (the Shenzhen company formerly known as the Beijing Genomics Institute) has purchased 128 of them. This puts BGI “on track to surpass the entire sequencing output of the United States”. These statistics are from a news ...Comment View comments -
The Sound of Thirsty Trees (5)
onBioacoustician Bernie Krause has recorded the amazingly rhythmic vascular systems of thirsty trees: alt : http://www.boingb... He discovered that the cells in the xylem and phloem of the tree fill with air to try to maintain the osmotic pressure that's usually produced by the sucking of water up through the roots. At a certain point the cells burst. Krause adds "When they pop, they make a noise: we can't hear it, but insects can. And ...Comment View comments
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