Bill Nye the Science Guy Connects With Techie Kids With New App
Twenty years ago this fall, Bill Nye came into homes across the U.S. with his TV show, “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” and struck a chord with curious children. There were segments on volcanoes, the science behind the human heart and even why people cry… Read More »
EmailGin and Tonics at Risk From Foreign Invader
Next time you have a gin and tonic, you might appreciate it a bit more. Gin gets its prominent flavor from junipers, and the plant is now under attack. A fungus-like organism called phytophthora austrocedrae has been spotted infecting juniper plants and spreading throughout Northern… Read More »
Male Spiders Make Love, Not War, but Die Anyway
In a macabre display of affection, the male dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus) dies shortly after it mates with a female, a new study in the journal Biology Letters finds. But unlike black widows, whose females are infamous for eating the males once the deed is… Read More »
Google Project Uses Balloons to Expand Internet Access
Forget wireless Internet, search-engine giant Google now wants to produce balloon-powered Internet for rural areas. The company today announced the start of Project Loon, a plan to send large floating balloons into the stratosphere to provide Internet access to rural or remote areas, in addition… Read More »
On Twitter, Vine Surpasses Instagram
Although it launched only five months ago, the mobile-video application Vine is quickly becoming more popular than its photo-sharing counterpart Instagram — at least in the Twitter sphere. On June 7, four days after Android released a version of Vine, Topsy Analytics, a San Francisco company… Read More »
Chemist Hopes ‘Artificial Leaf’ Can Power Civilization Using Photosynthesis
Imagine an artificial leaf that mimics photosynthesis, which lets plants harness energy from the sun. But this leaf would have the ability to power your homes and cars with clean energy using only sunlight and water. This is not some far-off idea of the future…. Read More »
Not Near the Cicadas? Watch Them on Live Cicada Cam
If you live on the East Coast you’ve started to witness the invasion. Their shells have started to cover the ground and their high-pitched buzzing has begun to fill the air. They’re the Cicadas and the bugs have begun to emerge for the first time… Read More »
Can WiFi Signals Stunt Plant Growth?
A Danish science experiment by a group of 9th-graders has gained worldwide interest and may have us rethinking the proliferation of wireless devices in our homes. Five girls from Hjallerup Skole, a primary education school in Denmark, began the experiment after noticing that when they slept with their cellphones… Read More »
Hot off the Grill: Test Tube Burger
A Dutch scientist hopes he’ll change minds about the viability of test tube meat when his first genetically engineered hamburger, made from billions of stem cells, is served hot off the grill. Mark Post, the head of physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, has… Read More »
Smuggled Dinosaur Skeleton Returned to Mongolia
A 70-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton that was illegally smuggled into the United States was returned today to the Mongolian government, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs officials. The tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton, which is 24 feet long and eight feet tall, will be flown free of charge from… Read More »
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