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The Sims x A Billion: Sea Urchin Embryonic Development Fully Modeled by Computer
Researchers at Caltech have created the first predictive computer model of a living embryo, mapping the genetic development of a sea urchin in the first 30 hours of it’s life. While a model over that...
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Court Releases $4.83 Million in Previously Frozen Funds to Dotcom
It looks like the MegaUpload case could continue on into the foreseeable future after a New Zealand court ruled in Kim Dotcom‘s favor and released $4.83 million of his previously frozen funds. The...
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Marine Whelk Snails Are The Ocean’s Daddy Day Care, But Less Awful
Marine whelk snails carry their young on their back, toting their eggs around for weeks after mating. The notion is not actually that uncommon under the seas — male pipefish and seahorses are also...
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Indian Government to Invest $4.1 Billion Developing Electric Cars
The Indian government has approved a plan to invest $4.1 billion dollars — or an even more impressive 230 billion rupees — in helping to develop technologies that will make electric cars a viable...
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NASA Discovers Kepler-47, First System With Two Planets Orbiting Two Stars
Turns out that what we thought we understood about planetary formation may have just been thrown out by NASA‘s discovery of Kepler-47, the first circumbinary planetary system ever discovered. The...
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New Research Suggests Vast Methane Reserves Under Antarctic Ice
A new study of Antarctic ice suggests that the continent may be harboring enormous stores of methane just beneath surface layers of ice. Okay, has everybody made their fart jokes? Good. Moving on. The...
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Geekolinks: 8/29
The raccoon is not a friendly sight in Europe (Phys.Org) I’m dancin’, I’m dancin’! (Dancer a Day) Z-Man Games goes the extra thousand miles (reddit) Women’s hockey stars playable in NHL 13 (Kotaku)...
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NASA WISE Mission Finds Millions of New Black Holes, 1,000 Superhot Galaxies...
NASA was teasing some big news about black holes yesterday, and this afternoon, we know what that is. The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope has found millions of black holes...
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Earthbound Dinosaur Hunted Like Modern Leopards, Dined On Early Birds
Paleontologists at the University of Alberta have found evidence that a feathered, but flightless raptor-like dinosaur preyed on ancient birds. Three fossils of Confuciusornis sanctus, a primitive...
View ArticleStanley Kubrick Sure Enjoyed the One-Point Perspective [Video]
Say what you want about Stanley Kubrick, but the man certainly had a certain visual style. Part of his obsessive visual panache was the consistent repetitive use of the one-point perspective....
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DARPA Cheetah Robot Faster Than Usain Bolt, Humanity Doomed
Earlier this year, we brought you the news that the DARPA-funded Cheetah robot, crafted by the robotics masterminds at Boston Dynamics, broke the world’s land speed record for robots with an 18 mph...
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Newly Developed Hydrogel Could Replace Your Pitiful Human Cartilage
A team of engineers and materials scientists has announced the creation of a new water-based gel that could serve as a replacement for human cartilage. The substance, known as a hydrogel, is a...
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NASA Used a Toothbrush to Fix a Problem on the International Space Station
The International Space Station requires maintenance just like any other piece of technology. After astronauts Sunita Williams and Akihiko Hoshide failed to install a new main bus switching unit...
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Vladimir Putin Pilots Motorized Hang Glider to Lead Endangered Siberian...
You read that headline right: Vladimir Putin is basically the little girl from Fly Away Home, except for how Anna Paquin has never had her political enemies locked away in a Russian prison for two...
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Science Finds Smoking Really is Cool
Remember in middle school when you tried smoking for the first time behind the gym in P.E. because your friend stole some of his older brother’s cigarettes? Do you remember how, though you coughed a...
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New Kindles Arrive on The Block In L.A. at an Underwhelming Amazon Event
Amazon’s big press conference has wrapped and before you ask, nope, we did not get an Amazon phone. We did get several new Kindle options, including the Paperwhite, which could be the new weapon of...
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Geekolinks: 9/6
9 classic board games in app form (GeekSugar) How two Pakistani brothers created the first PC virus (Mental Floss) Blood rituals and warriors (Environmental Graffiti) The CW is trying to make Wonder...
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Sharp Mortgages Nearly Everything to Stay in Business
Nothing invokes consumer confidence quite like a company having to mortgage nearly everything they own just to pay the bills. Sharp has done just that with most of its offices and factories, striking...
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Plants Send Chemical SOS When Butterflies Lay Eggs, Call In Wasp Cavalry
The black mustard plant, Brassica nigra, looks about as capable of defending itself as most other pretty yellow flowers. That is to say, not very capable of defending itself at all, as all it really...
View ArticleChildhood Ruined: Say Hello to A Christmas Story 2 [Video]
If you’ve ever wanted to convince someone that there really are vile people out there looking to mine childhood nostalgia for golden nuggets of currency, might we humbly suggest that you point them to...
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