 Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine' February 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 252 vote(s)
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Thane Heins knows the track record of inventors that claim to make breakthroughs in power generation methods, especially when they claim to defy the second law of thermodynamics. Every so often, a (usually ... | |
 Electronic tattoo display runs on blood February 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 374 vote(s)
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Jim Mielke's wireless blood-fueled display is a true merging of technology and body art. At the recent Greener Gadgets Design Competition, the engineer demonstrated a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen ... | |
Conspiracy! Fact and fiction are closer than we think January 15, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 116 vote(s)
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Conspiracy theories which claim to shed more light on the 2001 twin towers disaster in New York are often closer to official versions than first thought - according to new research. | |
 Nonlocality of a Single Particle Demonstrated Without Objections November 09, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 150 vote(s)
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Usually when physicists talk about nonlocality in quantum mechanics, they’re referring to the fact that two particles can have immediate effects on each other, even when separated by large distances. Einstein ... | |
 Traffic jam mystery solved by mathematicians December 19, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 355 vote(s)
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Mathematicians from the University of Exeter have solved the mystery of traffic jams by developing a model to show how major delays occur on our roads, with no apparent cause. Many traffic jams leave drivers ... | |
 Global warming? Next decade could be cooler, says study April 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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Global warming could take a break in the next decade thanks to a natural shift in ocean circulations, although Earth's temperature will rise as previously expected over the longer term, according to a study ... | |
 Before the Big Bang: A Twin Universe? April 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 258 vote(s)
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Until very recently, asking what happened at or before the Big Bang was considered by physicists to be a religious question. General relativity theory just doesn’t go there – at T=0, it spews out zeros, infinities, ... | |
 First Analysis of the Water Requirements of a Hydrogen Economy October 18, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 126 vote(s)
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One of the touted benefits of the futuristic US hydrogen economy is that the hydrogen supply—in the form of water—is virtually limitless. This assumption is taken for granted so much that no major study has ... | |
Creationists object to evolution exhibit November 09, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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An unprecedented exhibit of early human fossils at a Kenyan museum has pitted religious creationists against scientists. | |
 Researchers stumped by drug addiction paradox April 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 99 vote(s)
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From chocolate and caffeine to nicotine and cocaine, many of our most addictive foods and drugs come from plant toxins. Considering that plants originally developed these toxins to deter herbivorous predators, ... | |
 Researchers Prove Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits -- 'Memristor' April 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 177 vote(s)
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HP today announced that researchers from HP Labs have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering. | |
 Rain Power: Harvesting Energy from the Sky January 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 121 vote(s)
| User comments: 27
Researchers who study energy harvesting see energy all around us – we just need to find a way to capture that energy. One of the latest energy harvesting techniques is converting the mechanical energy from ... | |
 German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: paper April 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 315 vote(s)
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A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated. | |
 What Anthropic Reasoning Can Really Tell Us February 08, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 96 vote(s)
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Anthropic reasoning is under debate in the scientific community, and is considered by some as a cop-out. It has now lost further ground as physicists show that anthropic conclusions mostly reflect our biases ... | |
 Make Ethanol in Your Own Backyard May 09, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 93 vote(s)
| User comments: 25
A Silicon Valley start-up called E-Fuel is showing exactly how ethanol can live up to its name as "the people´s fuel." The company recently announced that it will soon start selling a home ethanol system, ... | |
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