I take a particular interest in Scotty the T-Rex‘s travels, because I had the opportunity to visit the site near Eastend where he was dug out of the ground, while he was still mostly in it (I was doing some work on a documentary about it). He was discovered by a school-teacher who happened to …
There’s an interesting round-up of recent stories in the field of alternative energy posted at Winds of Change. I’ve always felt that conservation, while laudable and important, is not an end in itself: it’s a way to buy time until better sources of energy are available–’cause the future I want to live in (and want …
Samuel W. Alderson, physicist, engineer, and pioneer in developing the crash-test dummy, has died–and, as proof that the universe does not always organize itself along ironic lines, he died of natural causes.
…but “baby” isn’t a toddler, it’s a robot that learns to walk the same way humans do…and keeps learning.
…has advanced in monkey trials. A monkey at the University of Pittsburgh, outfitted with a child-sized robotic arm controlled directly by its own brain signals, can feed itself chunks of fruits and vegetables. Sounds very promising…
It’s still too early to say for certain, but at least one scientist thinks there’s a strong possibility that the apparent methane in Mars’s atmosphere must be coming from life in the soil. The debate continues.
Contact lenses you wear overnight to temporarily correct nearsightedness the next day? The technology is here–but I doubt it will do the trick on my abysmal optical orbs. Good news for the more run-of-the-mill contact wearer, though.
I don’t care.
A Cambridge geneticist thinks so; he believes we have a 50-50 chance of being able to achieve a 1,000-year lifespan within 25 years. Let’s see…25, plus my current age…um…y’think we could maybe move on that a little faster?
It’s probably just my sick and twisted mind that reads this good-news medical story about an infusion of young blood helping old mice, and immediately thinks, “Vampires!”
A five-pound, hand-held medical diagnostic device developed by Sandia researchers can detect heart and gum disease instantly. Attach a modified salt shaker to it* and you’ll really have something. *Extremely geeky Star Trek reference.
The first critical elements of a giant neutrino telescope have been successfully installed in a 1.5-mile deep hole in Antarctica: When completed, the telescope will utilize a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice as a detector, and will be capable of capturing information-laden, high-energy particles from some of the most distant and violent events in the …
