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]
According to a new study, you can actually be bored to death, so fire up the Xbox and get that new job as a bullfighter quick! Researchers at the University College London kept tabs on 7,500 civil servants since 1985 and interviewed them about their levels of boredom. “The findings on heart disease show there [...more]
Well, this is less gross than I thought it would be. A French town in the suburbs of Paris realized that a lot of hot water was being thrown down the drain – sewage pipes were an average of 68 degrees, which is pretty hot. So Sophie Deschiens, the Environment Councilwoman for the town of [...more]
@astro_mike: tell the astronauts planet earth says hi! The space shuttle Endeavour takes off today, carrying with it a crew that will deliver and install the Tranquility node to the International Space Station. Also going with them are their Twitter accounts – Astronaut Mike Massimino (@astro_mike) will be accepting tweets down at mission control at the [...more]
I’m not even going to pretend I know what the hell is going on in this graphic, but apparently, it’s what it looks like when pure energy is teleported. OK. So, there’s this quantum phenomenon called “entanglement” in which two particles can share the same space while simultaneously being very far apart – even light years. [...more]
Researchers with the Mayo Clinic are working on technology that would allow people to type with their minds. But don’t think that you can just toss a typing hat on and write that great American novel while you sleep — it takes some considerable surgery. The researchers used electrodes already implanted into patients with [...more]
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