On Tuesday, Obama hosted the second White House Science Fair, an exhibit of more than 30 student projects that ranged from a system to detect nuclear threats to a prosthetic hand to portable disaster shelters. For nearly an hour, Obama toured the displays and visited with students, pressing them for details and admiring their work.
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 [...]
It’s a truism that technology is always shrinking and getting more compact. This, however, might be something else altogether.
Swedish police have prevented what could either have been the birth of an outsider scientific genius or an unprecedented disaster.
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 [...]
“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 [...]
Okay, let’s just go through the nerdgasm checklist:
Engineers in South Korea are working on a system that converts sound to energy, with one potential real-world application of the technology being cell phones that recharge themselves as people speak into them.
For humans, associating with video game characters is second-nature. I ducked. I jumped. I fell off a cliff and died.
You’d think that the trailer for Rise of The Planet of The Apes would be enough to remind people that screwing around with nature can lead to disasters even James Franco can’t endure. Apparently not, in light of news that researchers have bred a new species of all-female lizard under lab conditions.
Being a super genius sure is hard. You have all these great theorems about how gravity works and whatnot without the proper means to prove if they’re viable or bunk. In Einstein’s case, it wasn’t until recently — 56 years after his death — that technology finally caught up to the inner machinations of his [...]
