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Cycling Linked to Numbness, Irritation and More
Injury in the Making? Via Cambria Bike To some men, bicycles may look like the key to good health and a prosperous sex life—riding around all day keeps you fit and attractive; you can save that $4.50...
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Nature's Earthquake Forecaster
San Andreas Fault Stress changes in the rocks here could lead to a better earthquake warning system. IkluftFor seismologists, the dream of a perfect earthquake forecasting system may be a step closer....
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Tiny Magnets to Capture Cancer
Ovarian Cancer Ovarian cancer cells were injected into mice, then lassoed using magnets. Nathan Bowen/Georgia Tech Catching cancer before it metastasizes, or spreads throughout the body, is one way to...
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There May Be Blood
Map of the Disunion For a high-res PDF of the map, launch it here. International Boundaries Research Unit As the earth warms and our hunger for oil and other natural resources grows, the Arctic—once a...
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Dark Matter Hits Close to Home
Dark Matter: Closer to Home AymptotiaA new simulation has mapped out the way dark matter—the invisible heft of the universe—could be distributed in a galaxy like our own Milky Way; showing that dark...
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Frogs on the Verge of a Major Extinction
Severely In Danger? Joi (CC Licensed) Lots of amphibians (a third to a half of all species) are dying, and their deaths are the breaking-edge of what many scientists are calling the first mass...
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The Greening of Fresh Kills: In Graphic Exposition
Freshkills Main Molika Ashford This spring the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation released the draft environmental impact statement for the Fresh Kills Park Project, their plan to turn...
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Tiny Naked Astronauts
We're Water Bears! We're Water Bears in Space! BMBF-project FUNCRYPTAIn space, no one can hear a tardigrade scream. They can, however see the tiny organisms (also called water bears) survive a trip...
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Mission to the North Pole
U.S. Coast Guard cutter Healy NOAA Ever since Russia planted a flag under the North Pole last year, the issue of sovereign rights under an increasingly slushy arctic has tensed. In a race to claim...
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What Is "Digital Remastering"?
Master Remaster Steve Karp View Photo Gallerythe Blu-ray format stores and plays movies in high definition—easy for new flicks shot digitally in HD, but what about classics like Metropolis (due out on...
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Forests to Serve as Fire Sentinels
Preventable? A network of tree-powered heat sensors may help prevent forest fires. leppre (CC Licensed) Trees may be able to protect themselves from forest fires by serving as living batteries—housing...
View ArticleA Better CO2 Scrubber
Around half of our CO2 emissions aren't from big power plants, or even small power plants, according to researchers from the University of Calgary. They're from diffuse sources, like car exhaust, home...
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More Bad News About Plastics
Plastics Falling Evidence of the material's dangerous properties is mounting. iStockphoto Plastic. It's the spring in your tennis shoes, the sheath on your burrito, the skin of your air mattress . . ....
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Messenger Returns to Mercury
Mercury from 125 Miles Out NASA On Monday, for the second time this year, NASA's Messenger spacecraft will fly by the hot, cratered surface of the planet Mercury. The craft will come within 125 miles...
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Comic: An Alternative, Alternative Energy
At the cusp of a new U.S. presidency, energy issues have been thrust full-force into the spotlight. Candidates talk a lot about alternatives like solar and wind, and even Clean Coal (systems that would...
View ArticleFirst Internet-Connected Pacemaker Successfully Implanted
The first American to be implanted with a wireless pacemaker is now walking happily around while the device communicates remotely with her doctor. Carol Kasyjanski of New…
View ArticlePerseid Meteor Shower 2009: Don’t Miss Tonight’s Show
As tonight bleeds into tomorrow morning, the earth will be hurtling through a long skein of dust and rocks. Lucky for us, the result of our bombardment will not be…
View ArticleDesignYourDorm Brings College Move-In Day Online With 3-D Modeling
For the nervous new freshmen heading to college this fall (and some bitter 25 year olds looking to travel back in time) a new website, DesignYourDorm offers the chance to…
View ArticleStruggles Making Algae Biofuel Lead To A Fishy Solution
It’s been a few years since the race to make biofuel from algae really heated up. Today more than 50 companies are trying to find a way to affordably squeeze oil from slime,…
View ArticleCustom-Made Metamaterials Could Show Scientists a Tabletop Big Bang
For all the visualizations, artist's renderings and animations of the birth of our universe, it is still exceedingly hard to imagine the Big Bang: from nothing emerges…
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