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Category: Science

  • Sun to Flip its Magnetic Field Soon

    The sun’s magnetic field is expected to flip in the next three to four months and it could lead to changes in our climate, storms and disruption to satellites. This solar event only happens once every 11 years and signals what physicists call the Solar Maximum – a time when the Sun’s solar activity is…

  • Feds Ask Web Firms For Account Passwords

    The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users’ stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed. If the government is able to determine a person’s password, which is typically stored in encrypted form, the credential could…

  • Lockheed Martin’s Desalination Graphene Filters

    Lockheed has developed a special material that doesn’t need as much energy to drag water through the filter. Graphene is a substance made of pure carbon. Carbon atoms are arranged in a regular hexagonal or honeycomb pattern in a one-atom thick sheet. This special material is a film of a special structure of carbon, a…

  • Bacteria Creates Microscopic Gold Nuggets

    Among the more peculiar organisms that inhabit our Earth exists a bacterium that turns water-soluble gold into microscopic nuggets of solid gold, scientists said Sunday.  … The answer, suggest researchers in Canada, lies in a molecule excreted by the microbe that both shields the organism and transforms the poisonous ions into particles.”This finding is the…

  • Lewis and Clark’s Air Rifle

    An 8 minute history lesson about the power of an air rifle. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pqFyKh-rUI]

  • Plastic Bulb Promises Better Quality Light

    The new light source is called field-induced polymer electroluminescent Fipel technology. It is made from three layers of white-emitting polymer that contain a small volume of nanomaterials that glow when electric current is passed through them. The inventor of the device is Dr David Carroll, professor of physics at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.…

  • A General Lack of Regard for Einstein’s Brain

    There’s a story about Einstein’s brain over at the Washington Post.  It’s your basic nature vs. nurture about how this guy got to have this unique piece of gray matter between his ears. It appears quite a few Wash. Post readers don’t think much of Ol’ Albert or his accomplishments.  One particular genius wrote: He…

  • China To Build World’s Tallest Building In 90 Days

    It all started simple enough. A 15-Story Hotel in just 6 days. Six days. That’s how long it took to build this level 9 Earthquake-resistant, sound-proofed, thermal-insulated 15-story hotel in Changsha, complete with everything, from the cabling to three-pane windows. The foundations were already built, but it’s just impressive. While still in basking in the…

  • Everyone Wants a Drone – Zero Concern For Your Privacy

    Are unmanned aircraft, known to have difficulty avoiding collisions, safe to use in America’s crowded airspace? And would their widespread use for surveillance result in unconstitutional invasions of privacy? via SFGate. Yes, and no seem like pretty straightforward answers to these questions. But the elected idiots who man the Congressional Unmanned Systems Caucus have taken…

  • Rise of Titan the World’s Fastest Supercomputer

    After falling behind Asia and Europe in the great race, where success is measured in FLOPS floating-point operations per second, the US has struck back at the new high-tech Olympians with Titan: quite possibly the fastest supercomputer in the world.  … All of that might now change, as a new supercomputing giant hailing from the…