Civil engineering: Concrete, heal thyself!
IT’S useful stuff, concrete, but it does have drawbacks. One of the biggest is that it is not as weatherproof as the stone it often substitutes. Salt and ice... Continue reading →
View ArticleExtinct frog hops back into the gene pool
In what may be considered an early Easter miracle, an extinct species of native frog has begun its rise from the dead. Continue reading →
View ArticleBBC News – Greek footballer Giorgos Katidis banned for Nazi salute
A Greek footballer is banned for life from playing for the national team after making a Nazi salute to celebrate a winning goal. Continue reading →
View ArticleGraphene aerogel takes world’s lightest material crown
A new graphene aerogel created at China's Zhejiang University is the world's lightest material, with a density of 0.16 mg/cm3. Continue reading →
View ArticleBlow for ‘dark flow’ in Planck’s new view of the cosmos – space – 03 April 2013
The best map yet of light from the infant universe seems to rule out the strange motion of galaxy clusters, knocking down one sign of a multiverse Continue reading →
View ArticleRocket powered by nuclear fusion could send humans to Mars
Human travel to Mars has long been the unachievable dangling carrot for space programs. Now, astronauts could be a step closer to our nearest planetary neighbor through a unique manipulation of nuclear...
View ArticleEscherichia coli bacteria produce diesel on demand
It sounds like science fiction but a team from the University of Exeter, with support from Shell, has developed a method to make bacteria produce diesel on demand. While the technology still faces many...
View ArticleMegaupload Launches Frontal Attack on White House Corruption
Megaupload's legal team are not restricting their fight with the U.S. Government only to the courts. Today they published a detailed white paper accusing the White House of selling out to corporate...
View ArticleUniversity of Michigan News Service – Nano-breakthrough: Solving the case of...
Leading nanoscientists created beautiful, tiled patterns with flat nanocrystals, but they were left with a mystery: Why did some sets of crystals arrange themselves in an alternating, herringbone styl...
View ArticleStudent Engineers’ Skin Patch Warns When It’s Time to Get Out of the Sun –...
When the happy face disappears, go sit under the beach umbrella. Continue reading →
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