…whose soft tissues have been at least partially preserved is undergoing extensive testing with medical imaging equipment, and giving up secrets that are 77 million years old.
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Shh!
Canada now boasts the “world’s most technologically advanced research facilities” in the National Nanotechnology Institute, which apparently also features “Canada’s quietest space,” achieved through the joint efforts of 3,287 of Canada’s best school librarians.* *I made that last part up.
The silliest thing I’ve seen in a while…
…is this scarf for techno-addicts.
These movies of Saturn and its satellites are silent…
…but then, in space, no one can hear the soundtrack anyway.
A scale model of a hydrogen atom
We’re mostly empty space. Don’t believe me? Check out this online scale model of a hydrogen atom. The big blue ball is 1,000 pixels across. It’s a proton. The one-pixel spot is the atom’s electron. In between? 50 million pixels, or, at 72 pixels per inch on the average monitor, about 11 miles of nothing. …
A cool use of GPS:
Giving sight (well, almost) to the blind.
Pluto’s got more moons!
They’re called Nix and Hydra. But if astronomers decide Pluto isn’t a planet, can it still have moons? Or do they all become just “trans-Neptunian objects”? Inquiring minds want to know…
Photo of the Day: Valedictory
Thirty years ago this month, I graduated from high school at Western Christian College, then in Weyburn. And here I am delivering my valedictory speech (an extended riff on our class motto, “Climb Every Mountain”–why yes, the school had staged The Sound of Music that year, how did you guess?) at the graduation ceremony on …
Suspended animation…
…or at least peoplecicles…looks a bit more likely.
Take a deep breath
This sounds promising: “Georgia Tech researchers have created a new combustor (combustion chamber where fuel is burned to power an engine or gas turbine) designed to burn fuel in a wide range of devices – with next to no emission of nitrogen oxide (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO), two of the primary causes of air …
E-noses
Humans have always enhanced their senses with technology. We can’t hear as well as cats, or see as well as hawks, but with parabolic microphones and binoculars, we make up for it. One sense has lagged in technological enhancement: smell. In the mammalian nose, smelling takes place in tissue called the olfactory epithelium. We have …
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