Experiments on a newly created composite material have shown that it bends microwaves passing through it in a direction that seems to defy the laws of physics
Water — heavier when chilled, lighter when frozen, absorbing enormous heat with but a slight rise in temperature, the foundation of life, the most common of liquids, and the strangest. If only we knew how it worked.
American scientists have developed an electronic robo-lobster 46cm long and modelled on a real crustacean to help the military in frontline warfare
With the threat of mad cow disease hanging over their heads in Europe, McDonald’s is bracing for a beef scare in the US.
You can now buy a solar power pack that fits into a backpack. The 11kg units measures 445mm high x 270mm wide x 270mm deep and provides 120 watt-hours of power a day. After charging for six hours with the unit’s photovoltaic panel, the pack can run a laptop for three hours or its own light for 14 hours. It costs US$550.
The NSW Institute of Forensic Medicine at Glebe has been accused of scavenging body parts from cadavers. A common enough practice, although it is usually customary to seek permission first.
Skydiver Rodd Millner plans to fly to the edge of space using a high altitude helium balloon, then insulated in a pressurised space suit jump off, breaking the sound barrier as he descends — look out for a greasy smear coming soon to a footpath near you.
Ever wondered what happened to the surplus frozen embryos of devout christians — they put them up for adoption. I’d never actually been curious, but it is a rather elegant solution to the problem.
Darwin vindicated! Bible thumping creationists are talking through their hats, as the proof of evolution is in our genes.
When you ask someone to repay a loan, you usually don’t expect to be kidnapped, force fed fast food and have people take pot shots at you with air rifles.
Police in Omaha, Nebraska are still scratching their heads about the discovery of a refrigerated trailer full of stolen meat.
After two decades the DARE campaign, that required US school children to just say no
, has discovered that not only was it expensive and effectual, but it may actually have contributed to greater drug use by high school students. There’s nothing like using the technique of burying your head in the sand to make a problem go away, perhaps they should have tried education over ignorance and catchy slogans
Full body armour, absent on the battlefield since the 17th century, is making a comeback. It’s yet to be seen if our future soldiers will look like knights of old, stormtroopers or Daleks — exterminate… exterminate…
SETI have a shiny new toy under construction to help them in their quest for intelligent life
Scientists have discovered how to make rat cells replicate forever — you can never have too many immortal rats
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