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The Best Science Podcasts for the Enjoyment of Your Ears and Brain
3 hours 4 minutes ago - Pop Sci
PopSci Loves Science Podcasts Dan NosowitzScience, technology, comedy, and the confluence of all three, in downloadable audio form
Podcasts are undergoing a minor renaissance lately--every comedian has one, and every news publication has at least one--and, luckily for us, the explosion in quantity has also meant a ton of really amazing, high-quali...
Bummer: Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Weren't, and It Was the Cable Guy's Fault
4 hours 6 minutes ago - Pop Sci
Apparently neutrinos are not moving faster than light after all - some of the brightest minds in modern physics were bamboozled by a loose wire.
If you care about physics, Einstein or controversies, you'll recall the excitement last fall about neutrinos that were supposedly moving faster than light. The ghostly particles, which can move through the...
NASA Awards Engineering Support Services Contract
20 hours 34 minutes ago - NASA
NASA announced the selection of Analytical Mechanics Associates Inc. of Hampton to provide engineering services to support research and technology development for the Langley Research Center
How Pigs on Antibiotics Are Making Superbugs Stronger
5 hours 5 minutes ago - Pop Sci
Howdy, Pig Lord Rex via FlickrBut genome detective work could uncover new weapons in the war on bugs
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, (MRSA) a nasty strain of bacteria that resists most antibiotics, probably developed its defenses while spending time down on the farm, a new study says. It has been thought that humans' antibiotic abuse...
DNA Sequencer Plugs Right Into Your USB Port, Analyzes Your Genome
6 hours 13 minutes ago - Pop Sci
MinION Sequencer MinION is a disposable device that contains a sensor chip, ASIC and the fluidics system needed to perform a complete single-molecule sensing experiment. Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd.
In the nine years since the Humane Genome Project wrapped up, gene sequencing has gotten faster and cheaper at a pace rivaling the computer indus...
Google's Smartglasses Will Basically Make the Whole World Googleable
7 hours 20 minutes ago - Pop Sci
Terminator Vision Orion PicturesAugmented-reality eyewear is the next step toward a future in which we never again have an unmediated view of the world
Google announced yesterday that before the end of 2012, you will be able to buy augmented-reality smart eyeglasses from the search giant. The Android-powered glasses will have an onboard camera th...
Power Felt Lets You Sit on Your Phone to Power It
8 hours 12 minutes ago - Pop Sci
Power Felt Wake Forest University
A team from Wake Forest University's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials has created a new thermoelectric fabric they call Power Felt. It's constructed of "tiny carbon nanotubes locked up in flexible plastic fibers," though the final product looks and feels like fabric, and creates and electrical cha...
Japanese Construction Company Plans Space Elevator By 2050
9 hours 5 minutes ago - Pop Sci
Tokyo Sky Tree Obayashi Corp. plans to build a space elevator by 2050. The company is days away from completing this structure, the Tokyo Sky Tree, which will be Japan's tallest building at 2,080 feet high. tsushima2011 via Flickr
Space elevators have been our shared dream for years, but like other promising technologies of the future, they're just...
NASA'S Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space
20 hours 34 minutes ago - NASA
Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, the microscopic carbon spheres had been found only in gas form
The Race For The Next Big Thing In Green Illumination
10 hours 20 minutes ago - Pop Sci
Vu1 R30 ESL Claire Benoist
In October, manufacturing 100-watt incandescent lightbulbs will become illegal under the U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act. As part of the same legislation, 60- and 40-watt ones will be banned by 2014. Compact fluorescents (CFLs) are the simplest-to-make replacement but contain the neurotoxin mercury, have a blui...
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