Archive for the ‘In The News’ Category
|
Check this out - apparently normal, everyday office paper can be turned into supercapacitors simply by dipping them in an "ink" of carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotubes quickly absorb into ... more»
0 Comments
|
|
Many from my generation remember staying up to watch Steve Austin and Jamie Summers on The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. They were ordinary people who lived ... more»
1 Comment
|
|
Be sure to go outside tonight (Sunday, 12/13/09), if it isn't raining or cloudy,starting around midnight EST to see the Geminid Meteor Shower. The new moon should make the sky even ... more»
0 Comments
|
|
An international study called Interphone began a decade ago to determine potential cancer risks in cell phone users. This study is finally being published. However, it is far from conclusive based ... more»
2 Comments
|
|
That's right - a new entry for the Guinness Book of World Records! The new Large Hadron Collider fired protons with 1.18 trillion electron volts. That's about 20% more energy than ... more»
1 Comment
|
|
The news here is a little old (early November 2009), but still very cool. The video above is a quick glance at a new invention - a sponge made up ... more»
0 Comments
|
|
How'd you like to meet this guy in a dark alley? New fossil evidence found in the Sahara points to many species of crocodiles, some much smarter than our moderns ... more»
1 Comment
|
|
The Brown Pelican was one of the first entries onto the endangered species list, before Congress even passed the Endangered Species Act in 1973, due to devastating losses related to DDT. ... more»
0 Comments
|
|
In an international study involving 60 newborns, it was discovered that babies cry in their native language from the first days fo their lives. The study suggested that before babies ... more»
0 Comments
|