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Scientific Breakthrough of the Day: True Perpetual Motion Machine

Soon the dark days of humanity’s reliance upon fossil fuels will be at an end. Science - is there anything it can’t do? Cat plus toast equals miracles.

There’s more water on Europa than there is on Earth

As vast and deep as the oceans look to us, compared to the rest of our rocky planet, our mighty oceans are but a thin skin of water . In the above illustration from the USGS above, you can see that all of Earth’s water, if condensed into a single ball, would only be half as wide as the US. Europa on the other hand, has quite a bit more. There goes the sci-fi stories about aliens invading Earth to get our precious water.

The SpaceX Dragon capsule is now attached to the ISS, watch it live

The actual docking (spaceship sex) happened at around 930am EST this morning, but the UStream live feed is up, so you can see the Dragon capsule snugly attached to side of the ISS with the video link below. This is history being made, even if it looks kind of boring. Okay, so little is boring in space, but there isn’t much going on from the outside.

Japan and Russia reveal plans to build a permanent base on the Moon

China has talked about building a permanent moon base, and now Japan and Russia want to jointly get in on the action. This past week, the two countries announced plans to put permanent bases up there. Where’s America on this? If only Newt were president, he’d do it.

Piezoelectric viruses create electricity when pinched

One day in the future, you may have batteries that create electricity in a pinch. Literally, in a pinch. Researchers at Berkley Labs have created a piezoelectric energy system using the natural properties of the M13 bacteriophage virus to create small batteries that make electricity when squeezed.

SpaceX launch goes off smoothly, NASA calls it a “new era” in spaceflight

After a delay last week, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral early this morning with an unmanned ship bringing supplies to the International Space Station. NASA called the launch a “new era” in spaceflight, as it hopes to eventually outsource such missions to private companies.

Photos from today’s solar eclipse. Did you see it? Did you get any good photos?

Being on the east coast of the US, I didn’t see an eclipse this year, but if you live in Japan or in the southwestern US, you probably got a chance to get a rare glimpse at this event. Here are a few photos from around the world of the eclipse, and if you have any, feel free to post them below and I’ll add them to the pile.

The sarcastic fringehead isn’t sarcastic, and if you call it “fringehead”, it will bite your face off

Nature is pretty awesome, but it’s also frequently horrifying.

This morning’s SpaceX launch to the ISS scrapped at the last minute

Early this morning, SpaceX was supposed to launch an unmanned vehicle to hook up with the International Space Station, but due to minor technical problems, the launch was scrapped. The earliest SpaceX will be able to try again will be Tuesday.

Weaving artificial blood vessels out of tiny strips of artificial human tissue

The above contraption is perhaps the future way in which artificial blood vessels will be created— by weaving them out of thin strands of grown human tissue. Sorta gross, yet really fucking cool at the same time.

NASA prepares astronauts for manned asteroid mission

At some point, there will be humans walking around on Mars, but before that, there will be humans landing on an asteroid and doing asteroid stuff. And in preparation for this eventual milestone, NASA is currently creating a plan of attack and a strategy for astronauts landing on a gigantic, wobbly rock in space.

Minute Physics: “Why the Solar System Can Exist”

If gravity is so attractive, why doesn’t the earth just crash into the sun? Or the moon into the earth? The answer: Stable Orbits

The long and gruesome history of using corpses in medicine

Last week, there was a story about a large shipment of ground up baby pills from China, seized by South Korean authorities and everyone was like “ewww China”. But it’s not just China— corpses have been used as medicine in Europe and almost everywhere else in the world at some time and place. It seems like a bad idea now, but some believed in the healing power of ground up dead people.

The world’s oldest known cave art may be a depiction of a lady cave

Discovered in a cave in France, what could be the world’s oldest human etching could very well be a drawing of a vulva. Or it could just be something else, but archeologists like to see vulvas and dicks and everything. Oh wait, that’s me. Maybe they could be right.

Posts tagged with ‘science’

There’s more water on Europa than there is on Earth

The SpaceX Dragon capsule is now attached to the ISS, watch it live

Japan and Russia reveal plans to build a permanent base on the Moon

Piezoelectric viruses create electricity when pinched

SpaceX launch goes off smoothly, NASA calls it a “new era” in spaceflight

Photos from today’s solar eclipse. Did you see it? Did you get any good photos?

This morning’s SpaceX launch to the ISS scrapped at the last minute

Weaving artificial blood vessels out of tiny strips of artificial human tissue

NASA prepares astronauts for manned asteroid mission

The long and gruesome history of using corpses in medicine

The world’s oldest known cave art may be a depiction of a lady cave

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