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Science! T-Shirts Justify Spiting God

Anyone reading Gizmodo already knows that science is cool. But just in case those around you are questioning the fact—crazy people who probably wear tinfoil hats and fear falling off the edge of the Earth when visiting Disney Word—you can pick up one of these fantastic Science! shirts. Starting at $17.50, nothing says those biochem…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 23

Scientists Make First Paper-Based Transistor

A team at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal have produced the world’s first field-effect transistor based on paper. The paper layer acts as an “interstrate”, with the actual FET components being fabricated onto both sides: so the paper holds the transistor together and acts as an insulator. Amazingly in tests the paper transistor performed…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jul 23

Moon Base Two Could House Four Astronauts for a Six Month Moon Stay

What’s the next step in space exploration? A semi-permanent moon base, of course. It’s about time we get a settlement up there for astronauts to stay at for months at a time, don’t you think? Experimental architecture firm Architecture and Vision does, and they’ve designed what they’ve dubbed Moon Base Two, a base that can…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci Jul 22

The Music of Genetic Disease

When you develop cancer, the disease creates a musical dissonance in the functioning of your genes. That’s the strange finding of Harvard researcher Gil Alterovitz who used the activity of genes over time (modeled here with dots and lines) to set the human genome to music. He assigned specific notes to relationships between genes and…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 22

Instant Moon Base to Be Delivered by Ares Rocket

Click to viewWhen the Ares V rocket lands on the moon next decade, part of its payload will be a full-functioning, instant moon base that will be ready for a several-month long habitation. At least, if experimental architecture firm Architecture and Vision has anything to say about it. The firm’s design, called Moon Base Two,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 22

Osram Pushes White LEDS to World-Record Brightness, Super Efficiency

It’s an interesting week in the world of LEDs: on the weekend we heard about ultra-cheap ones, and today Osram (yes, the lightbulb people) has news that they’ve pushed white LEDs to world-record brightness. By optimizing the diode, light converter and the package, their lab test squeezed 500 lumens out of a single LED at…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jul 22

Which Technological Invention Changed the World?

Scientists like Jared Diamond argue that human history is essentially the story of technology. Our technological advancements are what propelled us from caves to cities, from gaslight to nuclear reactors, and from horseback to orbit. But with each advance comes a potential dark side: deadlier warfare, toxic pollution, or social alienation. Taking into account the…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jul 21

Real Dinosaur on the Loose in a Museum Makes Learning Fun, Extremely Dangerous

This is a video of a dinosaur on the loose in the LA Museum of Natural History. No computer effects used here, folks: it’s all real. Well, I mean, it’s not a real dinosaur of course or those kids would be totally devoured, but you know what I mean. If you look closely at the…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jul 21

Scientists Propose Adding Lime to Oceans to Reduce CO2

The oceans already absorb megatons of atmospheric carbon, but scientists say that there’s a way to boost this so that CO2 levels could drop to pre-industrial age levels. The answer sounds like a cocktail recipe: add lime. Limed seawater has boosted alkalinity, which lets it absorb more CO2 and stops it from releasing it back…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jul 21

The Asteroid that Killed the Martian Magnetic Field

Click to viewOne of the many mysteries of Mars is how the planet lost its magnetic field 4 billion years ago. Evidence suggests the planet once had a magnetic field just like Earth’s, created by a churning molten dynamo in the planetary core. But what could have caused that core to stop spinning, and stop…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 20

Scientists Grow “Ball of Human Blood Vessels” in Mice

It’s the next step on the path to robust tissue engineering and synthetic meat. Researchers today announced that they’d used special progenitor cells to grow human blood vessels inside mice. The vessels grew after scientists injected the cells into the mice, forming a “ball” of self-assembled veins that connected to each other and pumped blood.…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 18

Five Ways Technology Has Changed the Olympics

Click to view When the Summer Olympics kick off in Beijing next month, they will be very different from the Olympics held eight or even four years ago. From weather control to laser timing devices, technology is having an impact on the Olympics in a profound way. Supercomputers and weather control – The Beijing Meteorological…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jul 18

Video of the Moon Passing in Front of the Earth Taken From 31 Million Miles Away

We don’t have too many cameras out there in space past the moon, which is why most of our space shots are either looking outward, such as the shots taken by Hubble, or taken of Earth from the moon or closer. Which is why this video is so astounding. It’s a video of the moon…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci Jul 18

Scientists Use Mosquito-Mouth Design for Pain-Free Hypodermic Needle

Scientists at Indian Institute of Technology and Tokai University have taken the natural features of a mosquito’s mouth, and created a new type of needle that promises pain-free blood sample collection and injections. When mosquitoes bite you, it’s not their mouth that hurts you: their ultra-fine proboscis dips beneath the skin, and then a muscle…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jul 18

The New Hottest Spot in the Milky Way

Two days ago, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope revealed an image of what could be the brightest star in our galaxy: Wolf-Rayet star WR 102ka or, more fondly, the “Peony nebula” star. Astronomers say that it burns with the light intensity of 3.2 million suns — but that’s a rough estimate, and one that might even…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel Jul 17

Japanese Scientists Extend Flash Memory Lifespan to Hundreds of Years

Scientists in Japan have worked out a new technique for improving the lifespan of flash memory devices from around a decade currently to hundreds of years. The new ferroelectric NAND flash technology can do rewrites 100 million times, versus the 10,000 or so of existing tech, and can be scaled down to 10nm—one third the…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jul 17

DNA Tests Reveal Who Was Having Sex with Neanderthals 40,000 Years Ago

Are modern humans the hybrid children of early humans and Neanderthals? For over a decade, scientists have wondered what exactly happened to the Neanderthals, low-tech hominids who populated Western Europe, when homo sapiens arrived on the scene from Africa and Asia with sophisticated weaponry and the rudiments of symbolic art. Homo sapiens arrived in Europe…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 16

When Will My Robot Eat My Flesh?

As usual, Bill Christensen over at Technovelgy is asking the questions that are secretly on all our minds: When will we have a robot that can eat people? He points out that we already have a slug-eating robot, as well as a robot that can “taste” and identify foods (though it unfortunately identified humans as…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 16

The Frozen Waterfalls of Mars

This deep gorge known as the Echus Chasma was ripped into the Martian soil by gushing water, and scientists speculate that it may once have boasted giant, 4000-meter-high waterfalls. This image, by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express satellite, was released this week along with a few others. We’ve got an even more gorgeous one…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 16

Batman Not Entirely Realistic, Claims Scientist

On the eve of the release of The Dark Knight, an associate professor of kinesiology and neuroscience at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, E. Paul Zehr, has written a book that looks at just how realistic Bruce Wayne’s night job really is. The results may actually surprise you. Here’s the most surprising thing:…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 16

Science! T-Shirts Justify Spiting God

Scientists Make First Paper-Based Transistor

Moon Base Two Could House Four Astronauts for a Six Month Moon Stay

The Music of Genetic Disease

Instant Moon Base to Be Delivered by Ares Rocket

Osram Pushes White LEDS to World-Record Brightness, Super Efficiency

Which Technological Invention Changed the World?

Real Dinosaur on the Loose in a Museum Makes Learning Fun, Extremely Dangerous

Scientists Propose Adding Lime to Oceans to Reduce CO2

The Asteroid that Killed the Martian Magnetic Field

Scientists Grow “Ball of Human Blood Vessels” in Mice

Five Ways Technology Has Changed the Olympics

Video of the Moon Passing in Front of the Earth Taken From 31 Million Miles Away

Scientists Use Mosquito-Mouth Design for Pain-Free Hypodermic Needle

The New Hottest Spot in the Milky Way

Japanese Scientists Extend Flash Memory Lifespan to Hundreds of Years

DNA Tests Reveal Who Was Having Sex with Neanderthals 40,000 Years Ago

When Will My Robot Eat My Flesh?

The Frozen Waterfalls of Mars

Batman Not Entirely Realistic, Claims Scientist

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