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Is Apple Developing a Solar iPhone?
Image by Shapeshift Well, according to the site MacRumors, Apple have apparently filed a patent application to investigate the use of solar cells in their mobile devices, including the iphone and portable computers.
Continue reading...Just How Damn Smart Are Parrots Anyway?
Monday, May 26, 2008
Image from Márcio Cabral de Moura The debate over the cognitive capacity of animals has raged for years, primarily operating in concert with concerns over the ethics of performing tests on them. While traditional research has had limited respect in this aspect, the abilities of the [...]
Continue reading...The Map of Earth’s Fire Scars
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Image (c) University of Leicester All of us here at Environmental Graffiti care a lot about the planet. True, we tend to look at details: bizarre environmental news, trends and things that not that many people notice. Despite this, sometimes, just sometimes it’s important to look at the [...]
Continue reading...Scientists Discover “Frogmander,” Americans Keep Teaching Creationism
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Image from University of Calgary Some people just don’t get the point, no matter how much stuff happens – Americans continue to see creationism taught in their schools not as a religious doctrine, but as science, by at least a quarter of the nation’s biology teachers.
Continue reading...World’s Smallest Personal Helicopter Takes Off
Monday, May 19, 2008
Images Via 1, 2 A Japanese inventor has traveled to the birthplace of Leonardo DaVinci out of a desire to honor the legendary Italian designer with a series of demonstration flights of the world’s smallest helicopter, based on a concept of DaVinci’s.
Continue reading...Scientists Discover Youngest Supernova Ever
Thursday, May 15, 2008
NASA Photo via National Geographic In the life of the Milky Way, our galactic home, and the place where we can best study the makeup of the universe, we have only ever been able to observe a supernova that occurred in the late 17th century– just over 300 [...]
Continue reading...Vatican: God and Aliens Can Coexist
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Image from eddy13 The Vatican’s chief astronomer, Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, confessed in an interview that he saw no conflict between the religious doctrine he serves, and the scientific knowledge he peruses–including the possibility of “extraterrestrial brothers.” He also stated that it remains entirely possible that humanity [...]
Continue reading...Every Russian Police Station to Get a Resident Hypnotist
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Image via Flickr user Bryce Edwards After last week’s report that the Russian government was financing research on “psionic weapons” so that it could turn enemy soldiers into zombies, I was keen to see what the other shoe falling would be. Apparently, it’s the use of hypnosis in [...]
Continue reading...How to Turn Your Vacuum Cleaner into a Bazooka
Monday, May 12, 2008
The processes to make a vacuum cleaner bazooka. Images compiled from Planet SciCast Imagine my delight at discovering an absolutely epic experiment to turn your household vacuum cleaner into a bazooka. Word. Yay kids, this is where science helps you to shoot your friends in the gonads.
Continue reading...The Indestructibe Hard Drive: Survives 1200 Degrees C & Mach 25
Monday, May 12, 2008
Image from D’Amico Rodrigo In maybe the most impressive data-recovery task of all time, Jon Edwards has extracted the contents of a hard drive that was on-board the doomed Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003, meaning that it survived the disintegration of the shuttle while it was 39 miles [...]
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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