Direct from The Life Aquatic, two of our heroes have gone and built this ship, which capsises in order to be stable in the water to do research where stability is needed. They actually put serious money in this!

NASA has added high res images of the moon to their world wind software (kind of like Google Earth) allowing you to use it to explore our moon as well as our planet. Nice!

The BBC site has some striking scientific pictures on it

With a $7.5m budget this guy has invented a car ‘plug in’ which drops your emissions by up to 100% and your fuel efficiency by 10%. Should be on the market in about a years time. Basically, the H2N-Gen contains a small reservoir of distilled water and other chemicals such as potassium hydroxide. A current Read more about Saving the Earth through fuel efficiency and emission cutdown[…]

OPEN LETTER TO KANSAS SCHOOL BOARD Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel Read more about Giant Spaghetti Monster[…]

Yeah, just like the incredible journey! Little balloons that travel through the system, find cancerous cells and explode there releasing chemotherapy chemicals… The dual-chamber, double-acting, drug-packing “nanocell” proved effective and safe, with prolonged survival, against two distinct forms of cancers-melanoma and Lewis lung cancer-in mice.

Yup, these guys have implanted heat spreaders in epileptic rat brains which cancel out the erratic electrical currents causing epileptic seizures, and it worked on them… will the heat damage your brain? Nahhh of course not!

Yup, in one of those wonderful studies I like, it turns out that: Crashes are avoided by making a safe plan based on what you see. Cameras move attention away from hazards to speedometers So the UK has stopped deploying them whilst it ponders this… – From El Reg

Science magazine celebrates its 125th anniversary with a list of 125 questions science hasn’t got an answer for. I’ve always been a bit curious about no 1 myself.. ooh, and that one, and that one, ooh! ooh! and that one! 25 Questions .. further 100

Eric J. Heller has some awesome pictures of scientifically usefull visualisations, that also happen to be very attractive in his gallery.

The Bionic Man with moving metal arms controlled by thought and with sensitivity are now available at the mad scientist near you…

Nuke some grapes and see the plasma! There’s some other ways to create plasma in your microwave, but I can’t find them right now…

The Liverpudlians have done it! Created by The University of Liverpool Library with the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the SF Hub aims to facilitate research into science fiction and its related literary genres. Loads of sci-fi stuff

How is it that some technological innovations get taken up by the masses, and others don’t? How important are innovators and early adopters in this? Well Mr. Rogers apparently wrote the bible on this: Rogers, E.M. (1995). Diffusion of innovations (4th edition). The Free Press. New York. Here’s the theory laid out in bare bones Read more about Diffusion of Innovations[…]

NEC Corporation, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, POWEREDCOM, Inc., and Japan Science and Technology Agency have jointly succeeded in realizing fortnight-long, continuous quantum cryptography final-key (note 1) generation at an average rate of 13 kbps over a 16-km-long commercial optical network. Yeah!

That would be Celestia. Actually, the website tells us that You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. If you install it, make sure to stop by the Celestia Motherlode as well..

Cyberspace is all connected, as is, maybe, everything. A lovely esoteric field of exploration through the relationships, there are people who have made some lovely tools to visualise these relationships. I/O/D 4 Surf 3D

So there’s a whole wealth of available resources to see our planet and the solar system out there – either online or as a downloadable application. These programmes allow you to track hurricanes, cloud cover, global temperature, zoom in to varying degrees etc. The Earth and Moon viewer is webbased and has some interesting composites Read more about Exploring the earth and space[…]

Apparently the authors of this thing succeeded in getting one of their random papers accepted for a conference.. http://www.pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

Tim Radford, science editor Wednesday March 30, 2005 Guardian In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. The human race is living beyond its means. A report backed by 1,360 scientists Read more about Two-thirds of world’s resources ‘used up’[…]

Well, they were doing it by looking at how light bends and stuff before, because large mass objects (such as planets) have a gravitational pull (allthough that theory is in doubt considering the flight path of the discovery spacecraft). Anyhow, now they can detect planets and maybe the wind conditions on them by using infrared Read more about New way to detect planets[…]

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York apparently creates fireballs (whee!) that have the characteristics of a Black Hole, with particles disappearing into the fireball’s core and reappearing as thermal radiation. Funky. I’ll take two to go. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4357613.stm

Yup, as well as being good against cancer, another reason to celebrate this noble drink – it doesn’t, in fact, get you fat!

Well, we have the Darwin Awards, but this lesser known honour is bestowed on those who have carried out some seriously improbable research. Previous winners: The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos. Well done, that man!

Interesting theoretical physics articles by Dr. Michio Kaku From wormholes to time travel, it’s all here