Category: Study
Psychological neoteny.
Researchers find that more people are growing up and are never reaching mental adulthood.
Post date: Monday, June 26th, 2006.
A Framework for Offshore Wind Energy Development in the United States.
Department of Energy estimates that 900,000 megawatts of wind energy exists off U.S. coast. (via)
Post date: Sunday, June 11th, 2006.
Intelligent Speed Adaptation.
Speed-limiting technology being tested that will force an automobile engine going faster than the speed limit to automatically slow down. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2006.
PEP005 Topical.
Gel in clinical trials that has successfully removed basal cell carcinoma skin cancer. (via)
Post date: Monday, May 1st, 2006.
Precision Implantable Stimulator for Migraine.
Neurostimulation device designed to help migraine sufferers implanted into first patient.
Post date: Wednesday, April 19th, 2006.
IC.
Humanoid robot that is embedded with young school children to study how humans bond emotionally with machines.
Post date: Monday, April 17th, 2006.
Divine Strake.
U.S. to create a 700-ton explosion that will send a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas.
Post date: Thursday, March 30th, 2006.
Hyperthymestic syndrome.
Condition that a woman in California has in which she remembers almost every detail of her life.
Post date: Tuesday, March 21st, 2006.
HIAPER.
Test aircraft that will study rotors, or turbulent whirlwinds produced by airflows over steep mountains.
Post date: Thursday, March 2nd, 2006.
Ancylostoma duodenale.
British scientists voluntarily infect themselves with worms to test their curing effects on allergies. (via)
Post date: Monday, February 6th, 2006.
Short wavelength light.
Researchers find that exposure to blue light improves alertness and reduces fatigue .
Post date: Wednesday, February 1st, 2006.
THOR.
NASA planning to drop a quarter-ton impactor ball on Mars to study the ejecta that it blasts.
Post date: Thursday, January 26th, 2006.
Spacecraft skin.
Composite material being tested for spacecraft that can heal itself like human skin.
Post date: Monday, January 23rd, 2006.
Imogine lateotentare.
Newly discovered species of predator flatworms that squirt digestive juices into their prey and suck their flesh out.
Post date: Saturday, January 21st, 2006.
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Worms that were experiments aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia were recovered alive from the wreckage. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, January 4th, 2006.
Drosophila melanogangsters.
Harvard research program dubbed Fruit Fly Fight Club pits fruit flies fighting against one another, with video. (via)
Post date: Thursday, December 29th, 2005.
Body farm.
Iowa professor proposes outdoor body farm to advance the science of forensics studies.
Post date: Monday, December 19th, 2005.
Chikyu.
Japanese machine to dig to the center of the Earth. (via)
Post date: Friday, December 16th, 2005.
Now boarding everyone.
Unassigned seating gets passengers on planes faster. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, December 13th, 2005.
Sound psychology.
Web site that is hunting for the worst sound in the world. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, November 16th, 2005.
Anti-freezing fleas.
Canadian snow fleas found to contain proteins that lower the freezing point of liquids.
Post date: Thursday, October 20th, 2005.
Predator, once removed.
Scientists have discovered a spider that specifically craves human blood originally harvested by female mosquitoes. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 12th, 2005.
College try.
MIT students recreate Archimedes‘ Death Ray and successfully burn a hole in a ship. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 12th, 2005.
Counting water.
Amazon River flooding, which causes South America to sink several inches because of the extra weight, may one day help calculate the total amount of water on Earth.
Post date: Wednesday, October 5th, 2005.
One potato to rule them all.
Post date: Tuesday, October 4th, 2005.
Rat racers.
Remote-controlled rats with electrodes implanted in their brains can sniff for bombs or crawl through debris and look for people in search-and-rescue missions. (via)
Post date: Saturday, October 1st, 2005.
Weapons of membrane destruction.
Compounds secreted by frog skin appear to selectively kill the HIV virus. (via)
Post date: Friday, September 30th, 2005.
Dark matter.
Astronomers have found invisible matter that dominates the cosmos.
Post date: Thursday, September 29th, 2005.
Astrobiology.
British university is offering a degree in searching for extraterrestrial life beyond Earth.
Post date: Thursday, September 29th, 2005.
Powers of suggestion.
Oxford University research team has found that labelling an unpleasant smell with a more appealing name can improve its aroma. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 27th, 2005.
Indicators?
Left-handed women are more likely to get breast cancer. (via)
Post date: Monday, September 26th, 2005.
Project Stormfury.
Insight into a failed federal government research program aimed at weakening hurricanes through cloud seeding.
Post date: Thursday, September 22nd, 2005.
Nanosensors.
Researchers have combined nano-sized carbon tubes with DNA to form molecule-detecting sensors powerful enough to be ‘akin to finding a single person in Times Square on New Years’ Eve’. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 22nd, 2005.
Hot Eagle.
The Air Force and DARPA are studying options for a reusable space vehicle that could place a squad of Marines halfway across the globe within 2 hours. (via)
Post date: Monday, September 19th, 2005.
Functional psychopaths.
American scientists have found that emotionally impaired people may make good financial decisions.
Post date: Monday, September 19th, 2005.
Brain matter.
Researchers have identified where fear and pain become permanently etched in the brain. (via)
Post date: Saturday, September 17th, 2005.
Going up.
FAA allows a business the use of airspace to test their space elevator.
Post date: Thursday, September 15th, 2005.
Electromagnetically induced transparency.
Researchers in Australia have stopped light for more than one second. UPDATE: This optical technique has also allowed them to peer through solid objects.
Post date: Wednesday, September 14th, 2005.
Aquanauts.
Two Italian SCUBA divers will live underwater for ten days.
Post date: Thursday, September 8th, 2005.
Preservation.
Sodium nitrite, a preservative commonly used in hot dogs, is being studied as a possible treatment for ‘sickle cell anemia, heart attacks, brain aneurysms, even an illness that suffocates babies‘. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 6th, 2005.
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