April 2012
Nanotechnology can launch a new age of space... →
The Search for Alien Life: Manned Missions vs... →
Science: Bucky Balls Could Double Your... →
Buckminster fullerene molecules, the naturally occurring spheres made up of 60 carbon atoms, have long been suspected to have biological benefits. Now, a study that set out to establish if they were toxic when administered orally has proven quite the opposite—they almost doubled the lifespan…
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Serious Blow to Dark Matter Theories? →
The most accurate study so far of the motions of stars in the Milky Way has found no evidence for dark matter in a large volume around the Sun.
According to widely accepted theories, the solar neighborhood was expected to be filled with dark matter, a mysterious invisible substance that can only be detected indirectly by the gravitational force it exerts. But a new study by a team of astronomers...
How Mobile Technologies Are Shaping a New... →
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Laboratory Equipment: 3D Printers Could Make Drugs... →
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A new 3D printing process developed at the Univ. of Glasgow could revolutionize the way scientists, doctors and even the general public create chemical products. Prof. Lee Cronin believes his research could lead to the development of home chemical fabricators which consumers could use to design…
Talking Monkeys In Space: Pot Legalization Could... →
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Your plans to celebrate 4/20 this Friday could actually make the government some money, if only such activities were legal. That’s according to a bunch of economists, and some prominent ones too.
More than 300 economists, including three nobel laureates, have signed a petitioncalling…
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What Katie Roiphe (And Her Critics) Ignore: The Neuroscience Of Sexual Submission
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The wild success of the badly-written BDSM sexcapade Fifty Shades of Grey proves that what women really want is to be smacked around a bit more in bed—at least, so say certain members of the chattering class. This has (of course) prompted...
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Researchers at Rice University and Penn State University have discovered that adding a dash of boron to carbon while creating nanotubes turns them into solid, spongy, reusable blocks that have an astounding ability to absorb oil spilled in water. That’s one of a range of potential innovations for the material created in a single step. The team found for the first time that boron puts kinks and...
The Space Review: A new “Great Enterprise” for... →
For many space advocates, their ultimate goals go beyond reducing the cost of space access, opening new markets, and creating new uses for space. For decades, their long-term goal has been to enable humans to live in space permanently: space colonization or, more recently, space settlement (avoiding the negative historical connotations of “colonization”). It sounds fanciful and far-fetched to...
The Space Review: Working towards a space code of... →
