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The major headline of the first time creation of magnetic soap is that it could have a major impact on environmental cleanups such as oil spills. It could work for many other applications as well such as scientific experiments to industrial settings. LEt’s not get a head of ourselves though. What exactly is magnetic soap? [...]

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Every January, John Brockman, the literary agent who presides over the online salon Edge.org, asks his circle of scientists,and scholars to answer a question. In the past he has asked such questions as: “how is the Internet changing the way you think?” and “what is the most important invention in the last 2,000 years?”. This [...]

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I’m sure a lot of you watch Mythbusters regularly so there isn’t much to explain. Couple of dude do science experiments with the end game of disproving myths and rumors that they run a crossed. Anyways, a recent show went from a fun experiment to a possible neighborhood tragedy. In the experiment the crew fired [...]

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I knew I remembered reading a story about this a couple years back. Searching through my archives I found a post about making gold disappear by bending waves of light, and I expect this is a very similar solution, although it appears to be a different group. It appears as if this group is working [...]

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The CERN Physics and Research Center in Geneva is where the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) resides. One of its purposes in finding the “mysteries of the universe”, among others, is to replicate the Big Bang. Friday they released a report that they had been smashing particles together at a record intensity in a key advance [...]

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Not jsut for TV anymore! We are all fascinated by the awesomeness of forensic science. We’d probably all like to be one of those cool detectives like Dexter…well without all the serial killing, who can look at a blood splatter and solve a crime. Familial DNA is what it implies. The DNA of a blood [...]

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According to Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho of Vanderbilt University, the world’s largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, could be the first machine capable of causing matter to travel backwards in time. Been a while since you delved into good Sci-fi hasn’t it? This is kid’s stuff if you watch shows like Fringe [...]

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The laser was produced over 50 years ago. Anti-lasers work to cancel lasers out. Incoming beams of light interfere with one another in such a way as to perfectly cancel each other out. A little more scientific than the african mango diet pill, but quite an interesting report, which has been theorized for decades, and [...]

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It has been known for a while that shorter people have to exppend more energy to walk than us tall and handsome fellows (I’m not dark, more just pretty ). How hard is it for your baby taking their first step? Not as hard as figuring out what this guy is talking about, or building [...]

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Cellphone users may drive some of you crazy. On the road they are the cause of accidents, but anywhere in public they are just plain annoying to listen to. Cell phone users irritate so mightily because their background chatter forcibly yanks listeners’ attention away from whatever they’re doing, says psychology graduate student Lauren Emberson of [...]

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