admin | March 26, 2010
Image via iSpotSwap When it comes to parking, it pays to ride a bike. Usually you can lock it on to any tree or post without concern about finding a “parking spot.” But if you have to drive somewhere, especially in a crowded place, you could be wasting a lot of gas driving around for [...]
admin | March 26, 2010
Photo: Michael Graham Richard Well, it Depends… Not All Megawatts Are Created Equal Power grid operators are looking at the coming wave of plug-in vehicles and trying to figure out what it will mean for them. A group of U.S. and Canadian companies just released a study titled Assessment of Plug-in Electric Vehicle Integration with [...]
admin | March 26, 2010
Photo via jon hanson @ flickr Slugs as we know them aren’t the most colorful land-based creatures, but the shell-less mollusk known as nudibranchs (meaning “naked gills”), or sea slugs, are the complete opposite: The more than 3,000 different members of this species are each entirely different. In most cases, their brilliant colors come from [...]
admin | March 26, 2010
Photo via Crunchgear Who needs high-tech, fossil fueled vehicles to get amazing images of the earth from 22 miles overhead? Not Robert Harrison, who captured this incredible image with just a digital camera and a helium-filled balloon. You can check out the details about how he did it and try it out yourself. … Read [...]
admin | March 26, 2010
Photo via Infrogmation Magazines and newspapers have been in their death throes for years now, and it seems like the iPad is not only the final stake in their heart, but also the very thing giving them the launch they need to rise from the dead in a new digital body. However, the pricing of [...]
admin | March 26, 2010
First came dark matter, the gravitational source from within our galaxy that astronomers couldn’t see. Then came dark energy, the undetectable force pushing the expansion of the universe. Now, NASA scientists believe they have confirmed a new player, dubbed “dark flow,” that is dragging hundreds of galaxies along the same path. Even stranger, the researchers [...]
admin | March 26, 2010
While some scientists resort to undersea drilling to find undiscovered forms of life, a new group of researchers has decided that piloting a robotic submarine into a submerged volcano was the way to go. By exploring the deepest, hottest, undersea volcano ever probed, the researchers hope to find clues to both the beginnings of life [...]
admin | March 26, 2010
Time to get some of those iridescent Chris Moneymaker glasses. According to a new study published in the journal Current Biology your eyes could give away not just whether you have a good hand or not, but the actual numbers of the cards in your hand. Researchers asked study participants to name a string of [...]
admin | March 26, 2010
New observatory spots where stars come from Using a little astrophysical magic and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment Telescope in northern Chile, astronomers at Durham University in England captured the best view yet of individual star nurseries in a galaxy a full 10 billion light-years from Earth. And all they had to do was bend a [...]
admin | March 26, 2010
Counting up the missing mass Dark matter, the material that makes up the majority of the matter in the universe, remains so mysterious that scientists don’t even know how much of it there is, let alone how it behaves. However, using new calculations about the interaction between black holes and dark matter, scientists have deduced [...]
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