Archive for the ‘Science | Technology’ Category

A Super Mario toy is given an anatomy One side is a perfectly pleasant view of cuddly characters beloved by children worldwide.

For the first time, astronomers have found a planet smack in the middle of the habitable zone of its sunlike star, where temperatures are good for life. “If this planet has a surface, it would have a very nice temperature of some 70° Fahrenheit [21°C],” says William Borucki of NASA’s Ames Research Center here, who [...]

The loss to Iran of the CIA’s surveillance drone bristling with advanced spy technology is more than a propaganda coup and intelligence windfall for the Tehran government. The plane’s capture has peeled back another layer of secrecy from expanding U.S. operations against Iran’s nuclear and military programs. Just as the Soviet Union’s downing of the [...]

Attention: Your McRib sandwich is probably not good for your heart. It has 980 mg of sodium and 10 grams of saturated fat. But then we already knew that it wasn’t exactly health food. According to Time’s healthland blog, that’s not all it has: The sandwich contains 70 other ingredients. And some of those ingredients, [...]

Ever find yourself perusing a clothing catalog and wishing you could see the models on the pages without their clothes on? We can’t say the thought ever occurred to us, but maybe, just maybe, there are some home shoppers who’ve felt this way (perhaps of the male persuasion in particular). To which we say: there’s [...]

Perdido Bay, Alabama—A series of sounds played to oil polluted water from the Gulf of Mexico has “miraculously” cleared test samples of the deadly petrochemicals, says a well known Canadian researcher. According to John Hutchinson, an electro-magnetic energy expert from Vancouver, B.C., Canada, a selection of “music” has helped purify poisoned water. The frequencies included [...]

Last year, the hacked emails of climate scientists from the University of East Anglia spawned what has hitherto become known as “Climategate — a mini media tempest that briefly provided climate change deniers with what they believed to be grist for their favorite mill: that climate change is some sort of worldwide conspiratorial scam. There [...]

The Las Vegas Review-Journal today brings us the heartbreaking story of one Wesley Warren Jr., who just three years ago possessed a scrotum as normally sized as yours or mine. (Click here for video.) But something happened, something doctors can’t explain. Suffering from scrotal elephantiasis, Warren is now going public with his affliction in hopes [...]

Almost instantly people are bouncing ideas off each other, transforming each other, and learning to adapt.  It is getting to function like a neural net, all it would take would be to “cloud” and “super-compute” each data bit with adaptive human cognitive software and we could could function like the Na’vi tree of life. The [...]