• Science

    Missing Links: the Christmas Edition

    By Posted on 12.16.2008 3 Comments

    In today's links: declining mistletoe, burgeoning snowflakes, Santa, elves and more.

    12.16.2008 at 03:45pm - Comment by Zazzy

    What was the whole point of the research about how Santa delivers presents to kids? Santa Cluase isn't real!

  • Science

    Will Drinking Carbonated Beverages Weaken My Bones?

    By Posted on 7.30.2008 3 Comments

    Will drinking carbonated beverages weaken my bones? Maybe—but only if you're drinking several gallons of seltzer a day. Here's the chemistry that has soda drinkers worried: As carbon dioxide hits the water in your blood, it turns into carbonic acid. Too much acid in the blood can lead to a condition called acidosis, which could intercept small amounts of calcium from food as it makes its way to your bones, or steal it from them directly. Your greater concern, though, says endocrinologist Robert Heaney of Creighton University, should be the vomiting, headaches and impaired organ function that result from extreme acidosis.

    8.5.2008 at 02:02pm - Comment by Zazzy

    Supergrover, its good to have a little coke once in a while.

  • Technology

    Is There Ice On Mars? Apparently So

    By Posted on 6.20.2008 22 Comments

    NASA spent $420 million to send the Phoenix Lander to Mars last year. Festooned with state-of-the-art detection equipment, the rover's task was to scour the red surface in search of elusive Martian ice. And today, the NASA mission finally did uncover some extraterrestrial frost, and it did it with its simplest tool, a shovel.

    8.5.2008 at 12:53pm - Comment by Zazzy

    Kalvin Baker, why would the Earth end in 2012???

  • Technology

    A Star Is Born. Well, a Lot of Stars

    By Posted on 7.11.2008 4 Comments

    Considering the birth rate, astronomers might have named this the Rabbit Galaxy. According to a new paper in today’s issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers have discovered a galaxy that birthed stars 400 times faster than our Milky Way, overturning previously held ideas about the formation of giant galaxies

    7.16.2008 at 01:27pm - Comment by Zazzy

    The article is saying that when the universe was younger it's galexies gave birth to more stars, and scientist are studing if thats true...i think.

  • Technology

    Could the Hubble Space Telescope Photograph Lunar Footprints?

    By Posted on 7.11.2008 17 Comments

    Snug in Earth’s orbit, Hubble is free from the background glare that earthly telescopes must fight to see the stars. This allows its supersensitive camera to take better photos of galaxies farther away—and thus much dimmer—than any optical telescope on the ground can. But despite being closer to the moon than any other telescope, there’s no way the scope could snap a photo of that one small step man took 40 years ago.

    7.16.2008 at 01:08pm - Comment by Zazzy

    Why would anyone fake going on the Moon?

  • Cars

    Four-Wheeled Foresight

    By Posted on 5.7.2008 2 Comments

    Japans latest sci-fi monster, the Yamaha Tesseract, hunches on four wheels instead of two. This beastie is designed to retain all the turning sensations of a two-wheeled ride, without the threat of Godzilla-style carnage in the hands of an inexperienced rider.

    5.7.2008 at 11:34am - Comment by Zazzy

    I think it would be cool to have one of these.

  • Science

    Second Life Prepping for a Second Boom

    By Posted on 4.23.2008 7 Comments

    The knock on popular virtual world Second Life has been that it's a little slow, and not entirely easy to use. Sure, it has roughly 13 million registered citizens, but only a few hundred thousand are actual devotees who spend a fair amount of time in the alternate universe.

    4.24.2008 at 04:13pm - Comment by Zazzy

    I agree with dontbother, I meen sure it can be fun, but why spend your whole life there? Why not spend time finding someone in real life? How do the people even know whose on the other side? It could be a serial killer for all we know. It good be fun, I don't know I never played,but don't put your whole life. Something bad could happen.

  • Science

    Science Confirms the Obvious: Parents are More Strict with Older Kids

    By Posted on 4.23.2008 7 Comments

    The latest breakthrough in the burgeoning field of birth-order research reveals that parents discipline older kids much more severely than the younger ones. My own thoroughly unscientific poll also finds that this experience is common: Four out of five friends felt that hell yeah, younger siblings got away with murder. Well, not murder per se, but other transgressions such as sneaking home at 5 AM, shoplifting car stereos from Caldor, and smearing Vaseline on the family toilet seat.

    4.24.2008 at 03:50pm - Comment by Zazzy

    Lol, I am the youngest person in my family.

  • Gadgets

    The Ultimate Swiss Army Knife?

    By Posted on 4.15.2008 6 Comments

    When we spoke with Peter Segal—director of the upcoming film Get Smart—for our Sci-Tech Summer Movie Guide, he knew straight off that he had to play up the technology in the comedic spy caper. "We knew getting into this that the gadgets are really important," he says. He couldn't tell us about all the tech tools in the film, but there's a clever update of the infamous "cone of silence," and the movie features exploding cuff links and dental floss, plus a tooth radio.

    4.20.2008 at 01:07pm - Comment by Zazzy

    I think it would be cool to have a swiss army knife like that!

  • Science

    Why do Aliens Hate Radivoje Lajic?

    By Posted on 4.11.2008 8 Comments

    Radivoje Lajic thinks aliens don't like him. The Bosnian man says his home has been hit by meteorites no less than five times. He took the rocks to experts at Belgrade University, who confirmed that they are the real thing. But they haven't been able to verify that Lajic did anything to anger the extraterrestrials, or that he's the target of some extra-planetary prank. Still, Lajic seems sure this isn't just a coincidence.

    4.15.2008 at 03:58pm - Comment by Zazzy

    whoever said aliens controls where meteorites go?



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