The future is here, well almost here. These lasers are just too cool for words. Mounted on a truck or an aircraft they can track and “kill” with precision. Check out the vids.

source: popsci.com

The Mayans supposedly said that the world will end on December 21, 2012. NASA said they’re full of it. In a classic he said/she said NASA is tossing money into a campaign designed to dispel what they call internet rumours. There is also a doomsday movie opening Friday called 2012 about, you guessed it, the [...]

According to Scientific American, birds sing in dialect. Biologist David Luther of the University of Maryland and ornithologist Luis Baptista of the California Academy of Sciences have recently completed a study spanning three decades of the White Crowned Sparrow in San Francisco. They found that, as they had hypothesized, the urban noises drowned [...]

Amazingly beautiful, like plumage of an exotic bird. This “art” is a result of Professor Eschel Ben-Jacob of the University at Tel-Aviv, and Professor Herbert Levine of the  National Science Foundation Frontier Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at USCD. The pictures are a visual of how bacteria fight back against antibacterial products like soap and [...]

James Gilles, head of communications for CERN stated today thatthe LHC should be back online by mid November, and that thing were going very well. Though there is no scheduled date for a full power up the first stages will begin in the next two weeks when scientists will inject a beam of protons into [...]

Dr. J takes us to the centre of the Milky Way to talk about a supermassive black hole there located. We will hear from two scientists involved in an unprecedented 16-year long study, which used several of ESO’s flagship telescopes to produce the most detailed view ever of the surroundings of the monster lurking at [...]

Home is a documentary by Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, AngelA, La Femme Nikita) and Yann Arthus-Bertrand (la Terre vue du Ciel) about the place we live; earth. It is being hosted on YouTube for free until the June 14th 2009. Below is the trailer and the link to the project where you can watch [...]

HTML is the “mother tongue” of your browser.
To make a long story short, HTML was invented in 1990 by a scientist called Tim Berners-Lee. The purpose was to make it easier for scientists at different universities to gain access to each other’s research documents. The project became a bigger success than Tim Berners-Lee had ever [...]