• Technology

    NASA's New Base Uses Smart Spaceship Tech on the Ground

    By Jeremy Hsu Posted on 8.5.2009 6 Comments

    Get ready for the greenest federal building ever built, and maybe also the smartest. NASA plans to channel decades of space exploration technology into its upcoming Sustainability Base in California.

    8.5.2009 at 04:56pm - Comment by avance

    this is a good article

  • Science

    Psychiatry Via a Laser Beam To the Brain

    By Corey Binns Posted on 7.9.2009 6 Comments

    This is not your typical light show. The neon light piping into the brain of a mouse with Parkinson's disease stops the animal's tremors instantly. Neuroscientist and psychiatrist Karl Deisseroth and his colleagues at Stanford University believe the laser light can "turn on" damaged or inactive brain cells.

    7.9.2009 at 02:46pm - Comment by avance

    wow that is scary looking

  • Science

    In The Future, All Break-Dancing B-Boys Will Be Robots

    By John Mahoney Posted on 5.22.2009 3 Comments

    It was kind of the natural progression, right? This Manoi Go robot kit from Japan already has a head start, going from a headstand straight into the splits all by itself. [YouTube via Boing Boing Gadgets, GetRobo]

    5.25.2009 at 07:14pm - Comment by avance

    woo dancing robots are awesome. I want one.

  • DIY

    If It's Good Enough For Astronauts, It's Good Enough For Us

    By Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot Posted on 10.1.2008 2 Comments

    In 1986, the movie Space Camp was released and freeze-dried ice cream became all the rage around the country. These small packages of impossibly light and dry Neapolitan ice cream were everywhere. For many of us, this unusual, crunchy confection was our first introduction to freeze-dried food. Freeze-dried ingredients were originally popular with the military and NASA, and later gained a foothold with camping outfitters as an extremely lightweight way to carry a variety of foods into the wilderness that could be easily prepared with the simple additions of water and heat.

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    10.1.2008 at 11:38am - Comment by avance

    freeze dried food is awesome

  • Science

    Newest Ant Species is Has Oldest Ancestors

    By Jaya Jiwatram Posted on 9.17.2008 2 Comments

    Sometimes the smallest discovery lends itself to the biggest insight. That certainly was the case for University of Texas at Austin graduate student Christian Rabeling, who found a new ant species in the Amazon that is likely the descendent of one of the first ants to evolve on Earth more than 120 million years ago.

    9.17.2008 at 05:43pm - Comment by avance

    that is a scary picture

  • Science

    A Mammoth Discovery

    By Jaya Jiwatram Posted on 9.9.2008 1 Comments

    Mammoths are making a mighty big comeback. Last week, there was a stir among scientists when a controversial DNA-based study came out claiming that woolly mammoths have their roots exclusively in North America, since it has long been believed that they roamed from Western Europe to North America. Although the study is still raising eyebrows, many heads have turned to the gigantic discovery in Southern France's Auvergne region of a rare fossilized steppe mammoth skull weighing 1,300 pounds.

    9.10.2008 at 11:47am - Comment by avance

    mammoths are big

  • Technology

    Phoenix Digs Deepest Trench Yet

    By Laurie J. Schmidt Posted on 9.2.2008 1 Comments

    It's becoming a familiar story: robots on the surface of Mars outlasting their expected lifespan. Take the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, for example. The rovers landed on Mars in 2004 and have performed so well that NASA has extended their mission activities five times in the past three years.

    9.4.2008 at 05:31pm - Comment by avance

    phoenix is a neat robot

  • Science

    Fighting Cholera Via Satellite

    By Rachel Durfee Posted on 9.3.2008 2 Comments

    Though we may often think of cholera as a disease of the past, virtually eradicated when John Snow famously linked an 1854 outbreak of the epidemic in London to an infected water well on Broad Street, it still poses a threat in almost every single developing country in the world. Over 150 years after Snow essentially founded modern epidemiology, a team of American scientists are using remote satellite imaging to predict cholera outbreaks before they occur.

    9.4.2008 at 04:57pm - Comment by avance

    this is a neat idea



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