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Pirate Bay Starts Offering Tangible 3-D Objects For Download
The Pirate Bay: Physibles The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay, best known as a repository of copyright-violating Justified episodes and other audio, video, and software offerings that are not as fun as...
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A New Moratorium on Research Into Engineered Avian Flu: What It Means for...
Biosafety Level 4 CDC scientist Scott Smith manipulates a flask of cells used for experiments with live virus. Biosafety Level 4 is the highest security level. James Gathany/Centers for Disease Control...
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FYI: How Long-Running Is the Longest-Running Lab Experiment?
Pitch-Drop Experiment John Mainstone/University of Queensland Eighty-five years so far. The pitch-drop experiment-really more of a demonstration-began in 1927 when Thomas Parnell, a physics professor...
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A Dozen Science and Tech Stories to Expect in 2012
Asteroid Fly-By On January 31, the 20-mile-long asteroid Eros makes its closest pass by Earth in 37 years. It will miss us by 16.5 million miles, but that's still close enough for amateur astronomers...
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Setting Up a House-Shaking, Multi-Room Stereo System
Altec Lansing MN5000 Claire BenoistHi-fi for the Wi-Fi crowd Wiring up a home audio system is the past. Why bother, when there are so many great wireless options out there? Here's a quick guide to the...
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Pretty Earth Pics: This Is Our Marble
This Is Your Marble Click here to get a bigger view of this amazing image. NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring In the grand tradition of the awe-inspiring "blue marble" pictures, this newest...
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New Magnetic Soap Could Clean Oil Spills With No Suds Left Behind
Oil Spill Cleanup Sea turtle experts clean a small Kemp's ridley turtle with a toothbrush in June 2010, during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A new magnetic soap could be used to clean animals after...
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World's Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Super-Heats Aluminum Foil to 3.6 Million...
SLAC Chamber This photograph shows the interior of a Linac Coherent Light Source SXR experimental chamber, set up for an investigation to create and measure a form of extreme, 2-million-degree matter...
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Rainforest Expedition Turns Up 46 New Creatures, Including This Cowboy Frog
Howdy, Cowboy Frog This frog was found in a night survey in a remote area of Suriname. Paul Ouboter/Conservation International Scientists trekking through the Suriname rainforest, one of the last...
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Judge Rules Americans Can Be Forced to Decrypt Personal Data - What Does That...
Bringing a Laptop Into the Light Uwe Hermann via Flickr In the data age, pretty much nobody stores sensitive information under physical lock and key. Whether it's in Dropbox, Megaupload, a hard drive...
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Video: Eight Years After Martian Touchdown, Opportunity Rover Soldiers On
Opportunity Rolls On Maas Digital LLC for Cornell University and NASA/JPL via Wikimedia Its solar panels are dusty and its instruments are weakening, but the intrepid Mars rover Opportunity is still...
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The World's Only Iridescent Mammal Is Blind and Lives Underground
Golden Mole Wikimedia CommonsWhat's the point of being shiny if nobody can see you? The golden mole, a small mammal (though not a "true mole") native to southern Africa, is the world's only known...
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Making the Blackest of Black Materials
Little Light Traps "We made carbon nanotubes that are blacker than anything else." Our material absorbs more than 99 percent of visible and ultraviolet light and 98 percent of infrared light. It's at...
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How Men Can Decode Women's Menstrual Cycles
Photo Quiz! Can you tell which one of these women is ovulating and which one is menstruating? Wikimedia CommonsThe clues are in her voice "Are you on your period?" It's a question most women have been...
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Video: New Quantum Dot Tech Could Boost Current Optical Fiber Band Tenfold
Opening Up New Optical Communications Wavelengths via NICT Current optical communications schemes rely on a narrow 1.55 micron wavelength band of about 10 terahertz, a band in which optical signals can...
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The Moon Should Be the 51st State, and Other Space Dreams From Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich Gage Skidmore via Flickr At the sunset of Newt Gingrich's putative presidency, the moon would be the 51st state, colonized by permanent American settlers. Tourists would honeymoon in...
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The World's First 3-D, Free-Standing Invisibility Cloak Conceals from All Angles
Invisible to Microwaves via IOP [PDF]In microwaves, that is The search for the perfect invisibility cloak lumbers onward, but that lumbering is starting to pick up speed. We're hearing more and more...
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Video: Researchers Produce the First High-Quality 3-D Images of an Individual...
The First High-Quality 3-D Images of an Individual Protein The various images of a protein particle (A), the 3-D rendering (B), and the complex analysis of the three individual proteins that make up...
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How Disposable, Networked Satellites Will Democratize Space
A New Standard Satoshi In 1999, professors Robert Twiggs of Stanford University and Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University began to standardize the satellite business. They...
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The New York Public Library Helps You Turn 100-Year-Old Photographs Into 3-D...
The New York Public Library has an archive of over 40,000 historical stereographs, many well over a hundred years old. Stereographs are regular photographs, except in pairs, with the perspective very...
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