Feb 03
Like graphene, quantum computing is an exciting but endlessly elusive technological promise. One of the reasons—among many
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Feb 03
You may not realize it, but your kitchen is one of the most well-stocked chemistry sets you could ever hope for. And it’s not only for creating edible chemical reactions. NASA might rely on giant laboratories and factories to build its rocket engines, but all you need is a piece of pasta, a jar, some hydrogen peroxide, and a little yeast. Oh, and fire.
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Feb 03
The universe is freezing. In spots like the Boomerang Nebula
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Feb 03
This monochrome image of living tissue has some extremely unwelcome visitors lurking within it. Taken from some of the first ever 3D images of HIV at work, those little blue circles show the virus infecting the surrounding cells.
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Feb 03
There are, however, electric fish: eight-foot long, 600 volt, mouth breathing, alligator-killing fish.
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Feb 03
One of the most resilient creatures on the planet is the cockroach. Those little bugs can be very hard to kill. Researchers at Osaka University and Tokyo University of Agriculture … Continue reading
Feb 03
Study looks at planets orbiting binary stars, finds most migrated to current location
Posted in: Today's ChiliA new study has been published that looks at binary star systems that have planets orbiting. The study has found that most of the planets are beleived to have formed … Continue reading
Feb 01
You’ve probably seen plenty of headlines this week proclaiming "Stephen Hawking Says Black Holes Don’t Exist," and heard people who read those headlines chattering excitedly about this seemingly huge shift in astrophysics. But as PopMech wisely points out, that’s not an accurate summary of what Hawking actually said.
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Jan 31
If you look at the wires behind your entertainment console, you’re going to see different colors tangled up with different things leading to different places you forgot existed. It’s an awful ugly mess. Seeing the brain is like that, only the opposite because in its chaos is beauty. Just look at the 3D brain scan above that shows every synapse, it’s like a 3D Jackson Pollock painting.
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Jan 31
Crushing cans with your bare hands or stepping on them with your full body weight or shooting them with a bb gun are all fun ways to destroy an aluminum can. What might be most fun is letting it crush itself. How? Magical pressure.
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