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10 Funny and Strange Ways to Destroy Earth According to LiveScience

May 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

LiveScience: Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth. ‘A host of methods for ending the planet as we know it, presented by Sam Hughes. Some of them are very strange: gobbled up by strangelets, destroyed by vacuum energy detonation or eaten by von Neumann machines. Hurled into the Sun is the Top 1. See the whole [...]

May

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High-Strength Ultra-Light Carbon Nanotubes Aerogels

May 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Penn Physicists Develop a Carbon Nanotube Aeroegel Optimizing Strength, Shape and Conductivity. ‘Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created low-density aerogels made from carbon nanotubes, CNTs, that are capable of supporting 8,000 times their own weight. The new material also combines the strength and ultra-light, heat-insulating properties of aerogels with the electrical conductivity of [...]

May

27

First Naturally Occurring Material with a Negative Refractive Index

May 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Negative refraction gets natural. ‘Physicists in Germany claim to have found the first naturally occurring material that has a negative, rather than a positive, refractive index. The material – a metallic ferromagnet – is very different from all other negative-refractive-index materials known to date, which have had structures that have been artificially engineered in the [...]

May

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Predicting Cognitive Abilities with Finger Measurements

May 27, 2007 | 1 Comment

See Those Fingers? Do the Math. ‘Boys with the longest ring fingers relative to their index fingers tend to excel in math, according to a new study. In girls, shorter ring fingers predict better verbal skills. The link, according to the researchers, is that testosterone levels in the womb influence both finger length and brain [...]

May

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Forbes: 15 Things We Wish Someone Would Invent

May 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Revolutionaries: 15 Things We Wish Someone Would Invent. ‘Technology proceeds at such a breakneck pace that sometimes it feels like we’re rocketing into science fiction territory: Animal cloning, unmanned aircraft and space tourism are all recent realities. For some, though, invention isn’t moving fast enough. Take the 95 CEOs and other executives we interviewed over [...]

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