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Invisibility and Anti-Invisiblity Cloaks: Secret Titties and Dinosaurs? September 5th, 2008 — science Scientists have recently made some serious breakthroughs in the pursuit of a true invisibility cloak, with metamaterials that actually bend light waves around them, rather than just filming the surrounding terrain and projecting it onto the material, like previous ‘invisibility cloaks.’.

This is a classic experiment that we tried in science class when I was a child. Eric and I tried it at home, we used both the balloons and the hardboiled eggs just because we could. It’s kind of hard to find an old glass milk bottle, but our local grocer sells organic milk as well as chocolate milk in these old types of bottles so it wasn’t too difficult for us to find.

I’m all about encouraging the boys’ love of science.  Sadly, they’re not satisfied with the science they learn at school, because television has taught them that real scientists use test tubes and Bunsen burners, both of which are tops on Porter’s Christmas list.  A Bunsen burner = fire and last time

Author(s): Peter von BallmoosISBN: 9781402053030Publisher: SpringerEdition: 1Date: 13 Feb 2007Pages: 513 This volume is the first of its kind on focusing gamma-ray telescopes. Forty-eight refereed papers provide a comprehensive overview of the scientific potential and technical challenges of this nascent tool for nuclear astrophysics.

I remember a time when Halloween was nothing more than dressing up and running from house to house in search of the greatest candy bars. Fast-forward to 2008 and Halloween is a big deal… elaborate costumes, parties galore and merchandising second only to Christmas.

Robert Woodhead, self-described Mad Overlord and all-around geek, has posted an amazing amount of detail from his recent experiment in seeing how the Diet Coke & Mentos reaction works in microgravity. It's a modification of the now-standard geyser-producing demonstration, but with a twist: performing the trick on a Zero G flight and recording it on a high-speed camera.

Will The World End On September 10th? Here’s a story from the SUN: Scientists are trying to stop the most powerful experiment ever – saying the black holes it will create could destroy the world. Dubbed by some the Doomsday test, it will be carried out next week in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located 300ft underground near the French-Swiss border.

Posted by supercynic on August 30, 2008 Read this article and let me know if you had the same concluding thought as I did. I simply cut and pasted this straight from CNN’s website because I didn’t want to leave out any of the crucial details. Quick-witted flies can ‘detect swatter threat’ (CNN) — Flies always appear to be a step ahead of the swatter.

Posted by supercynic on August 30, 2008 Read this article and let me know if you had the same concluding thought as I did. I simply cut and pasted this straight from CNN’s website because I didn’t want to leave out any of the crucial details. Quick-witted flies can ‘detect swatter threat’ (CNN) — Flies always appear to be a step ahead of the swatter.

Bell Laboratories decided to close their fundamental physics research.Google NewsThat includes basic science, material physics, and semiconductor research. Because of short- and medium-term financial reasons, they will focus on networking, high-speed electronics, wireless technologies, nanotechnology,