Good News, Everyone! Every Sci-Fi Gadget is Here!—almost.
You may have caught the earlier article on how graphene and platinum is on the cusp of revolutionizing fuel cell technology—well, I've been doing a ...
Hidden Ocean on Saturn’s Moon Bolsters Life Theory
Saturn's moon Enceladus is home to an ocean of melted water beneath its surface, and could be a source for alien microbes, scientists said Thursday. The first measurements of the subsurface water at the south pole of the small and icy moon were made…
Ellen Brings Twitter to Its Knees
When Ellen DeGeneres commented on Meryl Streep's record breaking 18 Academy Award nominations, she decided that they should break another record—for...
Roman Lead, Dark Matter, and Neutrinos: Recovered Roman Treasure’s Scientific Use Ignites Saga
Alison K. Lanier Two-thousand years ago a Roman ship sank off of the coast of Sardinia. Today the ship’s load of lead ingots, or a casting mold of metal, is being used by the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy to study neutrinos, as reported…
Graphene+Platinum Nanoparticles Bonding Effects Revealed — Fuel Cell Production Costs To Fall?
New research from the University of Arkansas has revealed that platinum nanoparticles automatically limit their own size and organize into specific patterns when they’re bonded to freestanding graphene. When exhibiting these behaviors, the platinum…
It’s a Solid… it’s a Liquid… it’s a Dropleton
Scientists said Wednesday they had discovered a new type of microscopic particle cluster that is found in solid materials but strangely behaves like a liquid. They called it the "dropleton". The new entity, infinitely small and with a blink-and-you-…
Racial Differentiations Take Center Stage in Science Research
Advances in genetic sequencing are giving rise to a new era of scientific racism, despite decades of efforts to reverse attitudes used to justify the slave trade and Nazi theology, experts said on Friday. New forms of discrimination, known as neoracism…
Lab Detectives Help Expose Art Fakes
In under two weeks, the art world has been rocked by cases of forgery in which paintings with a potential value of millions were unmasked as worthless fakes. The two episodes, entailing a bogus Marc Chagall and a Ferdinand Leger, have shed light on…