Juliana v. U.S. Government And the winners are … today’s children (the plaintiffs) … and future generations (the ultimate winners). According to legal observers, it’s the first lawsuit to “involve … [Read full article]
World’s Most Powerful Particle Collider to Restart in March 2015 – What Can We Expect?
[Updated/corrected, April 22, 2015] The world’s most powerful particle accelerator — the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — is scheduled to restart in March of 2015, after a two year hiatus … [Read full article]
Beyond SETI – Time to Start Calling The Cosmos?
Most every one has heard of SETI — the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence — and most also know that, so far, the scientists that operate the powerful telescopes and computers … [Read full article]
Science Inspires Art – ‘The Brain’ Exhibition Opens in NYC [Photo Feature]
Radial Development by Robert Fathauer – 2014 – ceramic sculpture (one of 42 selected works for The Brain exhibition) From functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and 3D Brain Maps to … [Read full article]
'Super Cells – Building With Biology' – The Hope (And Hype) of Bio-Design [Book Review]
Part ‘history of’, part ‘how to’, and a good portion hype, Super Cells ~ Building With Biology, by Nina Tandon and Mitchell Joachim, is a fascinating, inspiring, and not-infrequently self-promoting/congratulating celebration of … [Read full article]
Quantum Entanglement Experiment Proves 'Non-Locality' For First Time, Will Permit Multi-Party Quantum Communication
Quantum entanglement — what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance” — involves a peculiarly strong correlation between two particles (typically, polarized photons) such that measuring a property of one particle simultaneously … [Read full article]
Apocalypse News Roundup: Corn Declines, A Killer New Virus, NASA Forecasts 'Irreversible Collapse' & Surviving The Zombie Apocalypse [VIDEO]
Greetings faithful readers… Well, March is turning out to be a fine month for apocalyptica of seemingly every sort…So, as your faithful reporter of all things cataclysmic and eschatological (well, … [Read full article]
NASA Space Telescope Captures ‘Clearest Glimpse’ Of Our Milky Way Galaxy Ever Produced [VIDEO]
GLIMPSE360 – It was a decade in the making…over 2.5 million “snapshots” collected over a total of 172 observation days…it’s The Milky Way Galaxy like you’ve never seen it before, … [Read full article]
Cosmologists Find 'Tell-Tale' Energy Pattern In The Cosmic Background, Confirming The Inflated Universe Theory
[UPDATE: June, 21, 2014; see note at bottom] In the scientific discipline known as cosmology — the study of the origin and evolution of our universe — finding “hard” evidence … [Read full article]
Off-Shore Wind Farms Can 'Tame' Hurricane Winds, Surges, Stanford Study Finds [VIDEO]
Climate scientists have been predicting more intense seasonal temperature variations and storms for several years now and recent winter ice storms in the deep south of the US, as well … [Read full article]
A Gem Of A Find – Oldest 'Piece of Earth' Discovered
Measuring just 200 by 400 microns (about 10 times the width of a human hair on its widest dimension), one would think finding an ancient zircon to be harder than finding … [Read full article]
New Encryption Technique Promises To Keep Your Genetic Data Secure – For Now
Our genetic codes — the string of nucleotide “letters” that comprise our genomes — contain information about which diseases we may be susceptible to, or, what health conditions we have … [Read full article]
Tech Imitates Life: An Electric Fish-Inspired Robot Will Monitor Oil Spills, Ecosystems [VIDEO]
[Reporting from the annual Science/AAAS meeting in Chicago, Illinois] Lacking proper fins and functional eyes, the electric knifefish (of the order Gymnotiformes; one of over a hundred freshwater species native … [Read full article]