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The O'Neill Cylinder - Humanity's Home Away from Home?

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:38:07 PST

Very few constructions proposed by scientists are nearly as ambitious as one project designed by a Physicist utilizing the help of his students. Gerard K. O’Neill’s proposal suggests something so large and so monumental that many scientists can’t imagine ever accomplishing it. Of course it should be noted that “impossible” is a word that scientists have a way of reinterpreting as time goes on.

Warning from Beyond the Stars

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:30:03 PST

The UFO phenomenon is most often remembered for the familiar moments in accounts where the witness reveals that something that has happened to so many others has also happened to them. The credibility of UFO stories at one point even hinged on the presence of certain tropes that carried with them the weight of others having said the same thing. In the 1960’s and 70’s one of these elements was the warning for humanity. Extraterrestrials who interact with humans have been perceived in many different lights over the years, but the benign ones reportedly have humanity’s future - and that of the planet itself - in mind.

Scientists Discover Planet - Likely Candidate for Life

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:04:05 PST

Scientists have just discovered a planet that at the moment holds the lead for the most likely planet to host life. The planet, which appears to orbit a red dwarf, is approximately four times the size of Earth - earning it the name "Super Earth." It's also said to have liquid water on the surface. Is it possible this planet could be the one scientists have been searching for?

Russian Scientists Break the Ice in Antarctica

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:29:30 PST

There's certainly plenty of room for conspiracy theories and speculation surrounding what a team of Russian scientists are doing in Vostok, Antarctica. As they continue their expedition drilling deep beneath the ice in an effort to reach the completely separate alien terrain beneath, there are rumors that they have also discovered a few artifacts left over from the third Reich, and speculation that there could be a monster dwelling deep beneath the ice. Add to that a rumor that contact with the team had been lost and you have Vostok. As they break the ice, many can't help but wonder: what will they find on the other side?

Gary McKinnon's Findings: Non-Terrestrial Officers

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:23:51 PST

Gary McKinnon, the man accused of hacking into top secret military computers and accessing information is awaiting resolution after over ten years. But McKinnon has revealed some of what he has seen to the public pertaining to extraterrestrials. And as the world waits, the things he found point to a few possibilities.

Flesh Eating Bacteria Mutates - Spreads More Quickly

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:14:57 PST

When the flesh eating bacterial strain of MRSA known as USA300 was first recorded, it was held back by several factors, chief among them its inability to easily spread without the established health care infrastructure. But now the illness has left the hospital, spreading now on buses and other public spaces - and now can be passed on by such a simple thing as a sneeze.

Zombie Research Society Seeks Answers, Brains

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:32:17 PST

As far as the end of the world is concerned, those interested in survival don't generally examine the monsters in zombie films as a potential real threat. Despite this, researchers at the Zombie Research Society have begun offering scientific explanations alongside their tongue in cheek attitude toward the creatures and suggest the zombie apocalypse is not a matter of "if," but "when." While we may not consider zombies a real world menace, some studies of diseases such as rabies have come up with some startling possibilities.

Discovery Sheds Light on Invisibility

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:43:58 PST

Is invisibility possible? A number of research teams around the globe are actively seeking a meta-material that will finally allow light to bend around an object and make it invisible. But one new concept of invisibility will not likely work as well for the military as it will for scientists looking to apply the new method to studies of magnetism, computers, gravity, and higher resolution microscopes. Meanwhile, research in the more traditional "metamaterial" allowing invisibility on the larger scale continues to make improvements.

Incredible Near Miss Asteroid to Zoom Past Planet

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:34:03 PST

It's the scene in the disaster movie where the plot really starts rolling. At 4:30 in the morning a phone rings and a respected astronomer receives a call informing him that an asteroid is heading toward Earth. After a moment of talk, the astronomer looks dead into the distance and makes an expository appeal that this is "the big one." Only in the case of 2012 BX34, the phone call ended far less dramatically.

The Three Hard Science Aliens We Don't Want to Meet

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:19:09 PST

One of the most daunting tasks in both space travel and speculation merges the two in trying to accurately describe what an alien race would be like if we actually did meet them - explaining their complex system of travel as well as their ability to survive the long journey that would last years between the stars. And as our understanding of the scale of the universe around us becomes more concrete, so have the channels through which potential alien visitors have been described. And in doing, three different theoretical types of alien visitors have arisen that humanity may do well to avoid contacting.

The Future of Yesterday - When Futurists Got it Wrong

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:25:16 PST

Even as 2012 arrives and uncertainty about the future abounds, technology is getting more incredible by the month. And yet even as the trend of broad strides toward high tech continues, there have been many attempts by the past to look into the future with open minds and open hearts. And as these hopeful images of the future past are played again, maybe we can get some idea of which technologies of today may be made manifest tomorrow - and which ones might be forever fantasy. Here are a few examples of how yesterdays prognosticators got it all wrong - and a few uncannily accurate predictions as well.

RAF Denies Involvement with Mysterious Sonic Boom

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:23:39 PST

When residents of Grimsby started contacting the UK's "This is Grimsby" with reports that something unusual was going on in the sky in the afternoon over their town, it may have seemed obvious that the culprit was the Royal Air Force conducting flight tests involving jets breaking the sound barrier and creating a sonic boom. But after an announcement by the RAF, and additional reports worldwide of similar phenomena, it seems the answer may not be quite so simple.

Does the Future Have Room for an Economy?

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:37:52 PST

As technology changes and we're left tiptoeing into the shallow end of what the full potential of invention might yield for humanity, economic forces have come like a tsunami threatening to stifle technological development on many fronts. We need only look at the killing of the shuttle program and the transition of space-faring responsibility into the private sector in the United States to see proof of how concrete the relationship between the two is. But just as the economy of today is driven largely by forces that came as the result of invention, what might the economy of the future look like and will it save us?

A Different Kind of Air Car

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:52:56 PST

As we still find ourselves waiting twelve years after the dawn of the millennium for a flying car, new trends in energy development has led researchers to take their efforts instead in the direction of greener and more sustainable vehicles, including electric and hybrid cars. But one emerging technology will use the term "air car" without giving its occupants flight. This type of air car will instead be powered by air rather than soaring through it.

Chemistry Pres Blames Bond Villain for Nuclear Image

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:11:39 PST

When the atom was first split and the idea of nuclear power eventually reached headlines, newspapers worldwide were excited about the prospect. In addition to the possibility of a nuclear powered future, citizens of many countries all over the world were excited in the wake of World War II with the idea that war may be over forever. But then public perception changed, and the public lost its love for nuclear power. And one professor says one of the bigger reasons was the portrayal of nuclear power in James Bond movies.

Robot Farms to Help with Tsunami Recovery

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:42:36 PST

It's not a farm that grows robots, but rather one that uses robots to grow food. And it may be a look into the future of agriculture. Robotic development has been seen for years as one of the key ingredients to a society without the economic concerns it has today. But will the project be successful? Or will there be a new crop of controversy to thrive thanks to these metal machines?

Ong's Hat Through the Ages - Dimensional Travel?

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:00:22 PST

When we think about folklore and urban legends, generally we don't imagine that the boundaries can be drawn merely at the edge of a city or even a state. How ambitious can a folklore legend be, when it supposes that the boundaries of its telling are not merely confined to our own universe? How incredible a claim can one story make? And how would the public respond to the discovery that somewhere out there is a fully equipped abandoned lab capable of transporting people from our own dimension to an alternate reality already populated with a rogue band of scientists who made their home there?

Immortal Human Cells Still Medically Miraculous

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:51:47 PST

Medical science is no stranger to the strange or even the miraculous. The story of Henrietta Lacks' destiny to give rise to an immortal self-cloning generation of cells and others would become a foundational stone in many laboratories. Though the cells are only a tiny fraction of her being, they contain the vital essence of who she once was and the incredible mystery of human immortality. In terms of biomass, if all of the HeLa cells grown from the tiny cluster retrieved without Henrietta's knowing were put into a single pile they would weigh 20 tons.

Kingsclere Suffers Mysterious Electrical Malfunctions

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:59:50 PST

When a winter storm rolls through and kills electricity on a block or even throughout a whole city it's a mystery easily solved when a downed power line or damaged transformer is discovered. But in Kingsclere, Hampshire the real cause is a bit more difficult to discover as the number of devices affected has spread even to remote control key fobs and cell phones. What's the disaster causing devices in this small village to be disrupted even when they have power going to them? And has this sort of thing happened before?

Will FMRI "Training Booth" One Day Replace Schools?

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:10:37 PST

In recent years the idea of receiving information through a signal transmitted directly to the brain has increased significantly. Ever since science first tiptoed toward the hidden potential of technology as a teaching mechanism, people have often wondered if one day the average person will be able to simply go to a medical facility instead of a training academy and come out a skilled athlete. And that's precisely the technology scientists at Boston University are exploring.