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Samsung Thinks It'll Release Flexible OLED Displays Next Year
Flexible DisplaySamsung DisplayThe Wall Street Journal reports today that Samsung is "in the last stage of development" for flexible plastic OLED displays, and that the displays will be released in the...
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Boxee TV Review: Not Ready For Primetime
Boxee TV With AntennaDan NosowitzBoxee TV came with high hopes--a second-generation media-streamer that could help you ditch cable forever. Consider those hopes dashed. When I spoke to Boxee CEO Avner...
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Clues To Climate Of Historical Earth Lie In Ancient Human Feces
Bowel-based biomarkers indicate where ancient humans settled and started changing the environment. Researchers studying past climates have a handy new tool for uncovering ancient human settlements:...
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Gray Matter: Finding Water Where It's Least Expected
Flash Fried Hot oil may release water hidden in dry starchy foods, such as mung bean noodles and shrimp chips, converting it to steam and causing them to puff up. Mike WalkerFree the trapped H20 for...
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Wii Mini Coming December 7 for $99
Wii MiniNintendoWell, this was unexpected. Nintendo is trying the take-a-cool-thing-and-make-it-smaller business model. A Best Buy blog post gives the details on the Wii Mini. Short version: it's a...
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The Same Laws That Govern Your Brain's Development May Also Control The...
Universal Structure This composite image from the Chandra and Hubble space telescopes shows the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745 (MACS J0717, for short), where four separate galaxy clusters...
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Students Learn Better With Star Trek-Style Touchscreen Desks
The 'Classroom Of The Future'Durham UniversityA new three-year study shows students learn mathematics faster and more effectively when their real desktops are more like multi-user virtual desktops....
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LHC's Latest Particle Collisions Find What May Be A New Form Of Matter
Proton-Lead Collision This visualization from the CMS collaboration depicts a proton colliding with a lead nucleus, sending a shower of particles through the detector. CMS/CERN via MITParticle...
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Which City Has The Most Nobel Prize Winners? [Infographic]
You've been slacking since 1901, Paris. Courtesy of Italian design agency Accurat, here's a simple, attractive look at data from the Nobel Prizes. It's in Italian, but like most well-done infographics,...
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Deep In The Earth's Core, Clues About Its Mysterious Birth
Earth's CreationNASATo deduce how and when the Earth was formed, we need to know exactly what it's made of. We've known for over half a century that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, but for people...
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Making A Digital River With A Sandbox And Kinect
UC Davis engineers built this augmented reality sandbox. A Kinect senses real changes made in the sandbox and a projector overlays it with moving digital water.
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Los Alamos Lab Demonstrates A Reactor For Space Travel
New Fission Reactor John Bounds of Los Alamos National Laboratory's Advanced Nuclear Technology Division makes final adjustments on the DUFF experiment, a demonstration of a simple, robust fission...
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5 Of Physics's Greatest Sex Scandals
He's Just A Love MachineWikimedia CommonsPhysicists need love, too. Just ask Paul Frampton, the physics professor who was sentenced recently after an alleged scam involving drugs and a bikini model. We...
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Awesome Color Wheels Made From Musician Names And Song Titles [Infographic]
"The Colour Of Song" and "The Colour Of Popular Music"We Are DorothyWould you paint a baby's room Blue Oyster Cult? The designers of We Are Dorothy are masters at representing snippets of pop culture...
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Korean Government Will Intervene On Gadget Addiction, Starting With 3-Year-Olds
Korean Pro GamersWikimedia CommonsGadgets and the Internet are big in South Korea. Really big, as this Associated Press story points out. Now "addiction" to the devices is enough of a problem that the...
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7 Gift Ideas For The Climate Change Denier In Your Life
Melting GlacierWikimedia CommonsHelp your friend learn about global warming with gifts that will almost certainly tick him off. Average temperatures on the planet are increasing, ocean levels are...
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Britain Is Testing An Amphibious House That Rises Along WIth Floodwaters
Britain's Amphibious House ConceptBaca ArchitectsBritain's Environmental Agency is taking a keen interest in housing technology that embraces flooding rather than fights it. When floodwaters rise there...
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How Does SpaceX Plan To Move Thousands Of Humans To Mars?
Founder Elon Musk said he wants to send 80,000 people to Mars--per year. SpaceX founder/Tony Stark movie inspiration Elon Musk made some heads turn this week, as heads are wont to do when they hear...
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Skylon Spaceplane Engine Endorsed By European Space Agency
The Skylon SpaceplaneReaction EnginesThe 'biggest breakthrough since the jet' could reach anywhere in the world in just four hours or power a spaceplane into orbit with no need for rocket stages. The...
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10 Animals That Are Smarter Than You Think
Portia SpiderJames KhoSure, chimps and dolphins are smart. But did you know about the terrifyingly intelligent Komodo dragon, the paranoid squirrel, or the insect supervillain Portia labiata? There are...
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