A new iPhone app called Noah turns anyone with a cell phone, some legs and some time into a citizen scientist. The app lets users update a map with mushrooms, animals, trees — any flora or fauna — so that scientists can see changes or mini surveys of an area without all the work. [...more]
Did you know that there are no voice recordings of computer pioneer Alan Turing, or of hovercraft inventor Christopher Cockerell? You think someone would have shoved a microphone in the face of Nobel laureate AV Hill at some point, but no – these scientists, in fact, 30 major British scientists – including 9 Nobel winners [...more]
Scientists credit African dust with fertilizing the Hawaii rain forests — giving new insight into how remote forests sprout and grow on what was once volcanic rock. Oliver Chadwick from the University of California, Santa Barbara, said they were able to track the African dust to the rain forest floor. “Hawaii is one of [...more]
If you’ve ever tried to quit smoking or quit eating fast food or kick a nasty heroin habit, you probably know that once you get a taste of that old addiction, you’re right back to selling your roommates TV for a Big Mac. Now scientists give a bit of a glimpse into why people [...more]
A man who designed a working oxygen farm for Mars turned his efforts toward earth with the new fuel-cell power plant dubbed the Bloom Box. The idealist genius said reverse engineered his work on the oxygen farm, and instead of pumping out oxygen, he pumped it in and created electrical power. CBS talked to [...more]
Right now, the Large Hadron Collider’s running at half power, which means that Brookhaven National Labs’ Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider’s the biggest of the huge particle smashing machines. And on Monday, they revealed that they’d created the smashiest particle of all time – a quark-gluon plasma that reached four trillion degrees celsius. The plasma A) recreated [...more]
Last week, scientists discovered partial pigmentation in a dinosaur fossil, proving that their subject had orange feather-like fuzz. This week, another group of scientists decoded the full-body coloration of another dinosaur, the Anchiornis huxleyi. After decade of speculation, we finally know what a dinosaur actually looked like, and I’m totally not scared of it. Look [...more]
In the 50s, a common vision of the future went like this: an American family packs up the car, drives to their local Spaceport, hops in the 10:35 am rocket and gets ready for a relaxing day-trip to the moon. Well, now it is the future — the year 2010 — and not only are [...more]
Every man likes to assume that he’s so virile he could impregnate a woman just by looking at her. Well, those assumptions may soon be a thing of the past. Scientists at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente in the Netherlands have developed a tiny male fertility kit that can produce [...more]
An IT worker turned graffiti researcher unveiled his quirky research and compiled it into lovely graphs featuring all the lovely graffiti one might expect in a library bathroom. Quinn Dombrowski studied the bathrooms, study areas and whiteboards of a University of Chicago library looking for indicators of a slew of things from happiness to [...more]
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