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By Bob Novella, on December 22nd, 2011 MIT has recently come out with yet another cool piece of tech. A radar system that can see behind walls.It’s not yet like making a wall completely transparent but it’s pretty cool and useful for a first-gen device and the science behind it of course is pretty awesome.
When you look at something, even people [...]
By Bob Novella, on December 9th, 2011 A 40 year old moon mystery may have been solved recently.
It looks like we may have two viable theories why some moon rocks are magnetized even though the moon has no magnetic field. Not only that, up until recently, there was no theoretical mechanism by which the moon could even create a magnetic field.
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By Brian Trent, on September 28th, 2011 Einstein was wrong! We’ve found something that travels faster than light!
By now, the allegation of physicists at CERN has gone viral through every major news outlet. Indeed, the announcement does more than tickle the fancy; it seems to vindicate every sci-fi fan who stubbornly insisted the light-barrier would eventually be defeated. Wormholes, hyperspace, [...]
By Brian Trent, on September 16th, 2011 Move over Jenny McCarthy.
You’ve probably heard about the HPV vaccine debate by now. Governor and presidential hopeful Rick Perry has been taking heat for his executive order that young women be offered Gardasil to inoculate against the virus linked to cervical cancer.
This isn’t the place to debate the wisdom of “being forced to [...]
By Bob Novella, on August 19th, 2011 There’s been an interesting development in the whole cold-blooded/warm-blooded dinsosaur debate. A brand new method has been developed to reveal the most accurate body temperature of dinosaurs to date.
The results show that some dinosaurs were actually as warm-blooded as many modern mammals but they were also cooler than birds.
Researchers, led by Robert Eagle [...]
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