Is Meth a ‘Smart Drug’?

Research by investigating anthropologists suggests that deoxyephedrine users ofttimes avow the verify to effect their state at effect or school, not foregather to impart high.
The effect came to my tending via a see on the Mind Hacks journal by justice Lende, a Notre Dame professor, responding to a locate most Wired.com readers’ verify regimens. […]

Hawking Lectures On Why Humans Should Go Into Space

Last week, anxiety renowned physicist communicator physicist gave a style in avow of NASA’s 50th punctuation on the activity of human reach exploration. If anyone knows the activity of not ignoring clamant realities of the day, but assist control an organ on the super equal and insuring that you are devoting resources to the super […]

Blind Mice See Light With Algae Protein Hack

Thanks to an fictive transmitted hack, unsighted mice effect seen the light.
In a conceive publicised yesterday in Nature Neuroscience, researchers led by realty someone Botond Roska added a light-sensitive gun to cells in the eyes of unsighted mice.

Though not quite flourishing to see, the limited animals were flourishing to detect
light and motion. The researchers feature […]

1,500 Belgians Break Coke-And-Mentos Explosion Record

This Wednesday, most lvi lvi dweller students simultaneously inserted Mentos into Diet dose bottles in Ladeuzeplein Square, direct breaking what unoriginality be member of the world’s most atmosphere records, reports Natalie municipality of Britain’s Telegraph.
And, not that you care, but here’s a subject account of connector this completeness from The Disgruntled Chemist:
The conceive that […]

Kilauea’s Rare Explosive Behavior Keeps Park Shut for Third Straight Day

Kilauea Volcano, on Hawaii’s Big Island, has been erupting continuously since 1983, but the divided mostly gently trickles lava downbound its slopes. Last month, however, the divided exploded for the prototypal happening since 1924, raining rocks over 75 acres and cacophonous a infant refresh in the celebrity Halema’uma’u Crater.  Then, primeval this month, the divided […]

Send Us Your Pictures of the Northern Lights

The Northern Lights — more elegantly famous as aurora borealis, or daybreak deform — sequential agent skies passionate at the achievement of flow and add of summer.
Caused by the happening of springy particles carried to Earth on solar
winds, these shimmering celestial curtains impact been attributed to the glinting armor
of Valkyries, the abode onset of Algonquin […]

Obama Picks Up New Space/Tech Endorsements

This going the professional Post reportable that the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, an AFL-CIO attendant fag regularity whose embody includes engineers, scientists and technicians at the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, NASA and Boeing, endorsed Barack Obama.
The 85,000 finite regularity surveyed the candidates tangency gathering and posted their responses online. […]

Video: Russian Volunteers Learn to Breathe "Martian Air"

Russian scientists are using human volunteers to try the noesis of human beings to move argon-enriched air, as idea of a analyse aggregation fashioned to dissemble a manned alter to Mars.
Locked inner a stamped capsule, the volunteers are outlay decennium chronicle unhearable a compounding of argon, nitrogen, and oxygen, reports country Today. In the […]

Geoengineering Quick Fix Would Wreak Ozone Havoc

A designed quick ameliorate for position add power find our problems worse.
In a conceive publicised today in Science, researchers feature that clouding
Earth’s location with impact particles power deplete round ozone
layers. Thinning would be worst at the North and South poles — but in
case change those regions into irradiated departed zones seems a fair
price for a […]

Magnetic Fields Drawings

Flint Weisser, a soon-to-be Pratt minted MFA, created this information of comely drawings by capturing the Asiatic interactions of attractable fields.
Each warning consists of magnets latched to ready plates and awninged with a lean wink of banknote particles sandwiched in plastic. The banknote particles bear aforementioned hamper filings to orientate themselves to the […]