Scientists transform cement into liquid metal then glass!
Scientists at the Illinois-based Argonne National Laboratory and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute/SPring-8 have developed a method for turning liquid cement into a liquid metal semiconductor. “This new material has lots of applications, including as thin-film resistors used in liquid-crystal displays, basically the flat panel computer monitor that you are probably reading this from [...]
Vote For Your Favorite Robots
Yes, there really is a Robot Hall of Fame! And it’s looking for votes! So if you have a beloved bot you want to support, this might be your chance. Alan Boyle of NBC News’s Cosmic Log says the RHoF will take votes for the first time this year, but an expert panel of [...]
Physicists say they’ve found evidence of ‘God particle’
The head of the world’s biggest atom smasher says they have discovered a new particle that is consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson known popularly as the God particle, which is believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape. To cheers and standing ovations from scientists, the world’s biggest atom smasher [...]
Magic is dead. Long live magic.
MIT genius Jinha Lee has created an incredible computer-controlled system for levitating objects. The project, called ZeroN, uses magnets, a Kinect visual system, plus special software that enables either the computer to move a steel ball around in space, or a human to just grab it and move it, essentially telling the computer where it [...]
IBM’s “5 in 5″: Predictions in Innovation
Hot off the wires comes this release from the IBM Newsroom: Every year IBM predicts the future of technology via the IBM 5 in 5 initiative–our forecast of five innovations that will help transform aspects of modern life, making the planet smarter, within the next five years. We assess not just the availability of a [...]
Science finds God?
The most coveted prize in particle physics – the Higgs boson – may have been glimpsed, say researchers reporting at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva. The particle is purported to be the means by which everything in the Universe obtains its mass. Scientists say that two experiments at the LHC see hints of [...]
New Earth found 600 light years away… Can Cylons be far behind?
NASA finds new planet Kepler 22b outside solar system with temperature right for life. NASA announced finding an Earth-like planet outside outside the solar system that could have have the right temperature to support life. As Brian Vastag reported : The search for Earth-like planets circling other stars is heating up, but the latest discovery [...]
Uh oh… Second experiment confirms faster-than-light particles… beam me…
A second experiment at the European facility that reported subatomic particles zooming faster than the speed of light — stunning the world of physics — has reached the same result, scientists said late Thursday. The “positive outcome of the [second] test makes us more confident in the result,” said Fernando Ferroni, president of the Italian [...]
NASA RULES
Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by Ron Garan fragileoasis.org/bloggernauts/Astro_Ron and the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km with a high ISO HD Camera developed by NHK Japan, nicknamed the SS-HDTV [...]
Hey Buster, We’ve Found Your Dream Job: Asteroid Landing
In the Hollywood film Armageddon, Bruce Willis and a roughneck band of oil-rig workers were sent to destroy an asteroid on a deadly collision course with Earth. The catastrophic scenes depicted in the film just may be less fiction…and more science reality; especially the rover-craft carried by the Space Shuttles, which were used for surface [...]
Time Travel Possible?
Theoretically, Time Travel would require that an object be able to move faster than the speed of light which, according to Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity, is impossible. As a matter of fact our understanding of the universe is based on this fact, this constant, that the speed of light is the fastest that any [...]
