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French and Swiss Scientists to Destroy Earth in August
What do you get when you cross seventeen miles of super cooled magnets, a handful of laboratory mice and some mad scientists? If the doomsayers are right, the Earth will be destroyed when the Large H...
Ice Ages Linked to Periods of Solar Inactivity
It wasn't long ago that astronomers identified a new sunspot indicating the beginning of a new solar cycle. However, the solar activity was short lived and the sun's surface returned to dormancy. So...
The Search for Perfect Blackness Continues
Researchers at Duke University and Boston College have developed a metamaterial (i.e., one which obtains its primary properties from structure rather than composition) that has proved to be a perfect ...
Vatican Says Aliens Are Cool
A lot of new things have been coming from the Vatican of late, like new contemporary sins and ... theological truce with aliens. "How can we rule out that life may have developed elsewhere?"...
Politics, Agendas and Then… Science
In what is becoming a continuing battle between science, politics and special interest groups, more than half of the 1586 EPA scientists who responded to an independent survey from the Union of Concer...
The Fourth Basic Circuit Element
The "memristor", or memory resistor, previously resided as a theoretical fourth basic electric circuit element next to the resistor, capacitor and inductor. Its function is to "remember...
Room Temperature Superconductivity
A superconductor is a material that will conduct electricity without any resistance. This property would allow the transfer of energy without resistive heat loss enabling greater efficiencies in powe...
Digital Ugliness Detection
Usually, people associate facial recognition software with high-tech authentication techniques or auto-focusing aids in their digital cameras. Researchers at the Tel Aviv University decided to use re...
Tobacco Company Funded Major Lung Cancer Study
It's been revealed that big tobacco money contributed a significant portion of funding for a Weill Cornell Medical College study on whether routine lung scans for smokers are beneficial towards catchi...
High Tech Space Tools
Down on Earth, we are inundated with infomercials extolling the space-age technology now available for your garage/kitchen. Science channels on television describe the modern marvels made possible by...
Hallucinating Jewish Hippies Write Bible Verses
Benny Shanon, of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, has a theory of hallucinating Israelites recounting the story of Moses that is featured in the Time and Mind journal. He hypothesizes that a common hal...