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If You Need a Reason to Get Excited About Technology Again, This Is It
Early Monday morning, the 33-year-old version of me watched live as NASA engineers cheered, hugged and patted each other on the back. The Curiosity rover had landed safely on Mars and I was awake at close to 2am on a …
Mars Curiosity Rover: Wheels Down on the Red Planet
The rover pulls off an improbable landing—and fires up its instruments for two years of research.
via Mars Curiosity Rover: Wheels Down on the Red Planet | Science and Space | TIME.com.
Curiosity Takes Center Stage as Crowds Cheer in Times Square
It was a bit surreal to stand in the middle of Times Square and hear a throng of revelers chant “NASA! NASA!” as if the space agency had just won a gold medal in the Olympics. They were cheering the successful landing of …
Explore NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with Google Street View
It’s time to get excited about NASA again! Yes, with Curiosity hopefully landing safe and sound on the surface of Mars early Monday morning, people are once again talking about space travel.
Before getting images back from …
Hacking Your Memory: Could Total Recall Really Happen?
“Total Recall” features technology that erases and implants memories. Is that just sci-fi nonsense, or will we one day be able to reprogram our memories as we see fit?
The Internet Weighs About as Much as a Strawberry
Last week, the world was shocked—shocked!—to discover that downloading an electronic book to a device such as a Kindle actually increases the weight of the Kindle. Not by any truly measurable amount, said the New York Times, but still: adding data to a device apparently results in trapped electrons which “have a higher energy than …
Take a Look at the World’s Smallest Working Electric Motor
It’s a truism that technology is always shrinking and getting more compact. This, however, might be something else altogether.
Previously the world’s smallest electronic motor was a microscopic 200 nanometers across. Not bad, especially when you consider that the average human hair is only 60,000 nanometers wide.
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Man Arrested for Attempting Nuclear Meltdown (on His Stove)
Swedish police have prevented what could either have been the birth of an outsider scientific genius or an unprecedented disaster.
My money, admittedly, is on the latter, with the arrest of 31-year-old Richard Handl, a science enthusiast who was trying to build the world’s first home-based nuclear reactor.
The arrest came after the …
How to Win More at Rock-Paper-Scissors (According to Science)
There are a few time-honored methods for settling disputes: Good ol’ fashion fisticuffs are a fairly noble method, but you get all hurt and bruisy and that’s usually not a wise career move. Then there’s always coin flipping, but that usually requires the presence of a coin, which can be annoying to carry around. And aside from arm …
Sorry, Guys: Girls Sweep Google’s First Ever Science Fair
“What!? Girls aren’t supposed to be good at science!” is what someone old and dumb would likely say regarding the above headline. Yesterday, the top 15 finalists in Google’s first ever Science Fair put their projects to the test in front of 1,000 attendees and a panel of judges. Taking first place across three age categories were three …
Nerdtastic Video: ‘Doctor Who’ Theme Played on Tesla Coils
Okay, let’s just go through the nerdgasm checklist:
- Any reference whatsoever to Doctor Who? CHECK
- Gratuitous use of the Doctor Who theme tune? CHECK
- In an unlikely setting? CHECK
- Full of nerds? CHECK
- In the dark? CHECK
- Volume up to 11? CHECK
- With Tesla coils? Hell CHECK yeah.
- And people standing between the Tesla coils?
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