By Restless
Happy Spring …
Imagine the surprise on Kylie Hodgson’s face when the midwife during her caesarean section showed her two beautiful baby girls - of different races. Both Kylie and her husband have mixed-race parents, meaning that one girl inherited all-white genes and the other all-black genes, an occurrence with odds of approximately a million […]

By Restless
The cosmic energy released in the Big Bang that started the Universe 13 billion years ago has been mapped by satellites and can now be used by mathematicians to test “string theory,” the proposition that everything in the universe, from subatomic particles to entire galaxies, is made of tiny strings of energy.
The mathematics of […]

From Discover Magazine: 
Radioactive Boy Scout, Teenager achieves nuclear fusion at home
In 2006 Thiago Olson joined the extremely sparse ranks of amateurs worldwide who have achieved nuclear fusion with a home apparatus. In other words, he built the business end of a hydrogen bomb in his basement. The plasma “star in a jar”—shown at the left—demonstrated […]

By Restless
The site has info on making your own Tesla coils, can crushers, lasers a potpourri of devices for the advanced nerd. Check it out!

Thx to neatorama.

This is pretty incredible, I don’t think Spielberg or Lucas could have done any better.
They put a camera in one of the two solid rocket boosters on a Space Shuttle flight, the video starts as the shuttle is skyrocketing into space, then suddenly, both boosters seperate. The Camera […]

So do you think (A) and (B) are different colors?
It looks that way doesn’t it?   Well they are the exact same shade of grey.  Don’t believe me?   Cut and paste this image into MS Paint, and then cut the (A) and (B) squares out, and put them side by side.
It’s an example of the way your eye will […]

From Photonics.com: 
Light Changed to Matter, Then Stopped and Moved
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 8, 2007 — By converting light into matter and then back again, physicists have for the first time stopped a light pulse and then restarted it a small distance away. This “quantum mechanical magic trick” provides unprecedented control over light and could have applications […]

From CNN.COM: 
Prehistoric lovers found locked in eternal embrace
ROME, Italy (AP) — It could be humanity’s oldest story of doomed love.
Archaeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in a tender embrace and buried outside Mantua, just 25 miles south of Verona, the romantic city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale of “Romeo and […]

By Restless
A new weapon is being developed which brings the “force field” in from sci-fi to the now.
For the past several years, Taser International, Inc. has been testing products with the military market in mind. Most recently it has been working on Tasernet, a weapon it describes as a “non-lethal area denial and force protection […]

By Restless
Beijing, China (AHN) - Chinese scientists have reportedly transferred the property of glowing mineral stones to pigs. They have developed genetically engineered oinkers that glow green when placed under ultraviolet light. Researchers hope the achievement will be a step forward in their contest for fighting human diseases.
Researchers from the Northeast Agricultural University in Harbin […]

From News.Com.AU: 
Ancient ‘warrior’ found in permafrost
RUSSIAN archaeologists have uncovered the 2000-year-old remains of a warrior preserved intact in permafrost in the Altai mountains region, the official Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily says.
The warrior was blond had tattoos on his body. He was wearing a felt coat with sable fur trimmings and was buried in a wooden frame […]

Over on the Discovery channel they’ve been doing a show on ways the world could end.
It’s actually quite fascinating.  In addition to the usual suspects (Nuclear War, a rogue Asteroid, Epidemics, Global Warming, etc.) there are a few I never really thought of.
My Three favorites…
A Nearby Gamma Ray Burst.
Apparently, around once a day, somewhere in […]

Richard Dawkins, noted biologist, athiest, and Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University has won the “Person of the Year Award” from the BBC.
Richard is like a breath of fresh air,  in this period of time where reason and enlightenment are threatened around the world by fundamentalist jihadists (of all religions),  Richard calmly, rationally, […]