Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:52 am in Technology
SOPA and PIPA have been weakened due to websites protesting via Blackout Day on Wednesday, eroding popular support for the two bills and raising awareness of them across the net.

Posted on January 12, 2012 at 10:41 pm in Earth Sciences
Bill Gates has confirmed that Terrapower (where Gates is the primary investor) will help Chinese scientists develop a revolutionary nuclear reactor

Posted on January 11, 2012 at 10:32 am in Technology
Pro jet-ski racer and designer Franky Zapata has invented something that lets humans experience the awesomeness of being a dolphin.

Posted on December 30, 2011 at 6:58 pm in Flora and Fauna
It appears there is very little reason to use our closest genetic relatives as test subjects anymore.

Posted on December 30, 2011 at 6:57 pm in Technology
A Japanese manufacturer of industrial robots is working on a Kinect-controlled robotic household assistant for seniors.

A Rose For You (Image)

(Even the squirrels stop to smell the roses.)
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Colorful Quetzal (Image)

(Quetzal, sacred to the Aztecs and Mayas. During mating season, the male grows blue and green twin tail feathers three feet (1 meter) long; these tail feathers were worn ceremonially by Mesoamerican rulers and priests. )
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Celestial Snow Angel (Image)

(Just in time for the holidays, the Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a spectacular view of a star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy that looks like a snow angel in deep space. A newly-formed star called S106 IR is shrouded in dust at the center of the image, and is responsible for the surrounding gas cloud’s hourglass-like shape and the turbulence visible within. Light from glowing hydrogen is colored blue in this image. )
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Necklace Nebula (Image)

(The "Necklace Nebula", also called PN G054.2-03.4, is the exploded aftermath of a giant star that came too close to its Sun-like binary companion. The two stars that produced the Necklace Nebula live in a relatively small orbit about each other. They have a period of 1.2 days and a separation on the order of 5 times the radius of the Sun. )
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Transporting 60 People (Image)

(This poster hangs in the Planning Office in the city of Munster, Germany. It very graphically demonstrates the need for an effective transit strategy by showing how much space it takes to move 60 people via cars, buses, and bicycles.)
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Diving With Sea Snakes (Image)

(In this amazing photo you will see Bryan Fry, one of the world's leading venom experts, inspecting (and being inspected by) a sea snake.)
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Northern Lights From Orbit (Image)

(This photo, taken from the International Space Station, gives a unique perspective of the aurora borealis (Northern Lights). )
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Sri Lankan Green Pitviper (Image)

(Trimeresurus Trigonocephalus, also known as the Sri Lankan Pitviper, is a venomous species indigenous to Sri Lanka. Males reach 70cm while females reach 130cm. They are sexually dimorphic, with males being blue and females being green.)
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Jungle Moth (Image)

(This currently unidentified Amazonian moth curiously watches itself be photographed. This closeup shot gives a good look at the small details and intricate complexity of a moth.)
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Solvay Conference - 1927 (Image)

(The International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry, are located in Brussels. They were founded by the Belgian industrialist Ernest Solvay in 1912, following the first world physics conference. - 1911 Conseil Solvay.

This photo was taken on October 1927 during the Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons, where the world's leading physicists met to discuss the newly created quantum theory. The leading figures were Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr.

Einstein, disenchanted with Heisenberg's "Uncertainty Principle," remarked "God does not play dice." Bohr replied, "Einstein, stop telling God what to do.")
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