WEIRD SCIENCE
David Szondy – A new MIT plane is propelled via ionic wind (Credit: MIT). A team of MIT engineers has flown what was long thought impossible – a heavier than air craft that needs no moving parts for achieving powered lift. The 5-lb …
Loz Blain – – The Zapata Ezfly is a jet-powered flying Segway that it seems almost anyone can fly (Credit: Zapata). The Zapata Ezfly looks for all intents and purposes like a Segway of the sky. You stand on a small platform equipped …
David Szondy – China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) achieved an electron temperature of over 100 million degrees Celsius in its core plasma (Credit: IPP). The day of clean, limitless energy from nuclear fusion has taken another step closer thanks to China’s Experimental Advanced …
Michael Irving – The tardigrade shall inherit the Earth, according to a new study from Oxford and Harvard (Credit: rukanoga/Depositphotos). In about 5 billion years’ time, our Sun will use up its reserves of hydrogen and begin to cool down and expand, …
David Szondy – – A small, ephemeral lagoon in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert (Credit: Carlos González-Silva/Provided). Water may be an essential element of life, but to the scarce microbes that inhabit the Mars-like Atacama Desert in Chile, it’s death. …
Ben Coxworth – RFIQ is based on a process known as “weak coupling” (Credit: MIT). Passive RFID (radio frequency identification) tags are small, inexpensive, battery-less labels that are already used to track and identify a wide variety of items. If MIT’s experimental RFIQ …
Michael Irving – New computer simulations have questioned the existence of dark energy, a so-far theoretical force that is said to be driving the expansion of the universe. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech). According to the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (Lambda-CDM) model, which is the current accepted standard for …
“These compounds are very similar.” By Peter Hess – Photo by Bernd Haynold – Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org. Move over, marijuana: Scientists have their eye on a THC-like psychoactive chemical found in the unassuming, lumpy Radula, a group of plants in …
Two massive clouds of dust in orbit around the Earth have been discussed for years and finally proven to exist. Scotty Hendricks – Hungarian astronomers have proven the existence of two “pseudo-satellites” in orbit around the earth. These dust clouds were first discovered …
Famous physicists like Richard Feynman think 137 holds the answers to the Universe. By Paul Ratner – The fine structure constant has mystified scientists since the 1800s. The number 1/137 might hold the clues to the Grand Unified Theory. Relativity, electromagnetism and quantum …
