Using computer analysis, Smithsonian researchers have determined that the Hope Diamond was cut from the French Blue, a 69-carat diamond that belonged to King Louis XIV of France and was itself part of a 115-carat stone found in India in 1668. The French Blue was stolen during the French Revolution, and the Hope Diamond first …
This speaks for itself, I think: “Eric Bressler, a graduate student at McMaster University who is studying the role of humour in personal attraction, discovered in a survey of 150 students that to a woman, ‘sense of humour’ means someone who makes her laugh; to a man, a sense of humour means someone who appreciates …
A cordon-bleu chef at the Moto restaurant in Chicago has modified an ink-jet printer to create dishes made of edible paper that can taste like anything, from birthday cake to sushi.
There are lots of great panoramas on display here, but for me the most moving are those of the Apollo landing sites. Just 20 years to get there, if I’m going to fufill my childhood dream of retiring on the moon… Although, actually, I’m beginning to think Mars might be better.
That’s what they’ve got in Chicago. And that’s just plain nuts. “The vilest display of human venality I’ve heard of all day” just about covers it, all right.
We’re all getting older. (As the saying goes, it’s better than the alternative.) And as we age, we can’t help noticing that our brains don’t work quite the same way as they did when we were younger. Researchers have certainly noted this, and whether it’s because the average age of the population is going up …
…especially when they’re layers of diamond kilometres thick.
The more we look, the more we find planets–or, in this case, potential planets–everywhere. What’s fascinating about this is that these incipient planets orbit a brown dwarf, a “failed star.” Nobody expected to find potential planets in that situation. What’s more, the brown dwarf is warm enough that any planets that form might even be …
Another Star Trekish development: a new infectious disease diagnostics tool that can simultaneously detect and recognize 22 pathogens, both viruses and bacteria, that can present as clinically similar pulmonary disease. “Dr. McCoy…paging ‘Bones’ McCoy…”
Einstein’s theory of relativity has inspired a new ballet.
I’ve known about the Japanese effort to deliver bombs to North America via balloons during the Second World War, but until today i didn’t know that they actually successfully bombed Saskatchewan.
We’re all getting older. (As the saying goes, it’s better than the alternative.) And as we age, we can’t help noticing that our brains don’t work quite the same way as they did when we were younger. Researchers have certainly noted this, and whether it’s because the average age of the population is going up …
