Wow now they are getting closer to modifying lightning with science and meteorologists may be able to help stave off dangerous strikes if this advances further: Lightning could one day be tamed with the use of lasers, research suggests. At present, lightning rods on tall buildings can increase the likelihood that the high voltage bolts will…
Distant Moons May Be The Key To Alien Life
The search for extreterrestrial intelligence, or even simple life on other planets and areas of space is one of the most intriguing areas of astronomy. The SETI program involved sending and listening for radio signals from other planets. Now the search for exomoons may be the next phase in the search for alien life: Using…
8 Awesome Tesla Lightning Pictures
Aside from the inventive Tesla automotives, many of us have seen videos of homemade tesla coils and other electrical inventions from YouTube. Here are some really cool pics of Tesla lightning and some more about the artist and scientist: A self-professed “child of science,” Frei originally worked on the mechanical side of electricity, before switching…
Ceres Pyramid and Bright Spot Update – Part 4
The mystery continues about the pyramid like shape and bright spots on Ceres observed in the last few weeks. Below we have a skeptical opinion as well as info on the next close orbit: As of this writing, NASA has found a series of bright spots on Ceres — and their nature is completely unknown.…
Internet of Things May Eclipse The Regular Internet
Who remembers the internet of the 90’s? There were some chat boards, many did not have email and it was super slow. By the late 90’s mass adoption started taking place. Compare it to 15 years later or so and there are over 1 billion online with smartphones. The internet of things may eclipse the…
List of the Biggest Black Holes in the Universe
Here is a fun look at the largest black holes in the universe, as well as a perspective in size to our own galaxy and solar system: Our Milky Way may harbor millions of black holes… the ultra dense remnants of dead stars. But now, in the universe far beyond our galaxy, there’s evidence of…
Black Holes Can Do Crazy Things to Dark Matter
Most astronomers have posed the theory that an enormous amount of the universe is comprised of dark matter. In this computer simulation they try to illustrate what a black hole could do to dark matter: 15 years building a computer simulation that shows what it looks like when a black hole pulls millions of particles…
Did They Just PRove Time Travel at the Particle Level?
Many of us have heard about the double slit experiment where a photon can take a different path if someone observed it, proving when we look at things it changes their outcome. The same theory has been applied to an atom as well: We all have times we wish we could go back in time…
Jetpack Will Be Available Next Year
A new Zealand company has actually made a jetpack that will be commercially available very soon: Known as the Martin Jetpack, the device runs using normal petrol and is powered by two huge fans that can blast a pilot weighing up to 120 kg into the air at speeds of 74 km/h. The jetpack can…
Genius Teenagers Invent Bacteria Fighting Doorhandle
You have to hand it to outside the box thinking. These inventors made a doorhandle that may stop so many diseases from being spread! It takes just one person who doesn’t wash his or her hands to leave some germs hanging around to get passed on and spread diseases. To nip that possibility in the…
Touch This Hologram..Wow
Finally a holograph you can touch..wow! Even in Star Wars when r2d2 projected the message to Luke you couldn’t touch it. Here is more on how it is done: We present a method of rendering aerial and volumetric graphics using femtosecond lasers. A high-intensity laser excites a physical matter to emit light at an arbitrary…
Artificial Neurons Talking to Real Neurons
Swedish scientists have now made fake neurons that can communicate electrically with real neorons. Have they gone too far? The fundamental function of neurons, defined as chemical-to-electrical-to-chemical signal transduction, is achieved by connecting enzyme-based amperometric biosensors and organic electronic ion pumps. According to the research paper, the results demonstrate the potential of the organic electronic…
Gravitational Waves Are..?
What exactly are gravitational waves? The is light a wave or a particle debate has gone on for some time and many have recently concluded it is both. This may be related and let’s see what this study had to say: Who wants to bet against Einstein? Sure, there were a few bumps, but the…
SpaceX Falcon 9 to Attemp Rocket Landing This Sunday
SpaceX keeps pushing and doesn’t give up which is a great attitude. They will attempt this weekend another try at their Falcon 9 rocket: SpaceX will try once again, on Sunday, to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a boat, and you can watch all the dramatic spaceflight action live. The…
Strange Look at the Universe as a Hologram
Many of us have pondered what is real and what is in our mind. This concept has been portrayed somewhat in the movie The Matrix. Here is an intro to this video: What we touch. What we smell. What we feel. They’re all part of our reality. But what if life as we know it…
Astronomers Spotted a Strange Comet-Like Alien Planet…
uh were you aware of this? Astronomers have spotted something potentially stranger than most exoplanets. Exoplanets are of course those orbiting star systems and ones that may be similar to ours. Kepler 452-b is the most Earth like that we have found to date. The atmosphere in particular is one that has astronomers excited. And…
NASA Pyramid Debate on Ceres and Mars – Part 3
We are a few days into the big story about NASA and their images on the mini planet/asteroid Ceres. Many people think there is a pyramid that was built by aliens and many think it is just a natural rock formation that could have occurred on the surface as part of any randomly distributed…
NASA and Dark Matter Labs
NASA is using their technology and knowledgebase to simulate black holes in ways previously impossible to learn more about their properties: A new computer simulation tracking dark matter particles in the extreme gravity of a black hole shows that strong, potentially observable gamma-ray light can be produced. Detecting this emission would provide astronomers with a…
4D Printing and Why is it Cool?
The 3D printing revolution is already disrupting the process of manufacturing and growing at a super fast rate. Now we have 4D printing. Wat what? Yes that is correct in in this case, the 3D printed materials can move, representing the 4th dimension…time. Eventually there will probably be frameworks or embedded repositories within the materials…
DARPA is Trying to Put Engineered Life on Mars
There is some stuff you can’t make up or just sounds like it came from a science fiction movie. Here is DARPA’s plans for colonizing Mars in their way: Whether that excites or terrifies you depends on how you feel about the military engineering totally new life forms. If you’re in the excitement camp, however,…
