That’s right – planets, as in more than one. This image is from Bad Astronomy, and you can click through below to read more, and check out another picture of two planets around another star. An interesting fact about this star: it’s only 25 light years away, and is visible without a telescope. In fact, [...]
LHC Internet2 network to be managed by real brain cells
Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology plan to use living neural networks composed of thousands of brain cells from laboratory rats to control simulated power grids in the lab.
Sitting and Thinking
My wife and I haven’t been feeling well, so I’m sitting at home, basically doing nothing. It’s incredibly boring. I’ve read about Harvard students making electricity from grass, seen pictures of a new Chevy concept car(the Opel Flextreme), watched the first four minutes of Saw IV, read the synopsis of Across the Universe, France’s secret [...]
The efficiency of a black hole
According to the Science Blog, if our cars had the efficiency of a black hole, we could go a billion miles on 1 gallon of gas! Who says NASA doesn’t inspire us all?!