NASA scientists recorded the biggest explosion from a meteorite impact seen on the moon in eight years of monitoring.
(Source: Wired)
This tiny, new compound camera is built LIKE A BUG’S EYE.
…so you may want to be careful the next time you pull out that flyswatter.
(Source: Wired)
Who among us hasn’t — just once in our lives — put a couple of things in a test tube, a bottle, or our mouths and wondered what might happen?
Occasionally, this might have difficult consequences. But rarely does someone try to arrest us for it.
16-year-old Kiera Wilmot wasn’t so lucky.
Short Version: A 16-year-old high school student creates an “explosion” that doesn’t even generate the force of a firecracker, and gets expelled for discharging a weapon on school grounds. She’s now also facing possible felony charges for what her own principal considers to be a simple science experiment gone wrong. Anybody think the school district is out of line?
“Despite the fact that Wilmot reportedly told police this was nothing more than the experimentation of a curious mind, she was taken to a juvenile detention center and may now be labeled a felon.”
Wow. Punished for a science experiment… have we time-traveled to the Middle Ages?
Wired Space Photo of the Day: The Icy Face of Enceladus
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![Sam Parnia practices resuscitation medicine. In other words, he helps bring people back from the dead — and some return with stories. Their tales could help save lives, and even challenge traditional scientific ideas about the nature of consciousness.
“The evidence we have so far is that human consciousness does not become annihilated,” said Parnia, a doctor at Stony Brook University Hospital and director of the school’s resuscitation research program. “It continues for a few hours after death, albeit in a hibernated state we cannot see from the outside.”
[MORE: Strange Tales From the Frontiers of Resuscitation Medicine]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/88adcf3f86c8ef879b9bebbce4dffb3e/tumblr_mlz36sh1HG1r69k7do1_500.jpg)
Sam Parnia practices resuscitation medicine. In other words, he helps bring people back from the dead — and some return with stories. Their tales could help save lives, and even challenge traditional scientific ideas about the nature of consciousness.
“The evidence we have so far is that human consciousness does not become annihilated,” said Parnia, a doctor at Stony Brook University Hospital and director of the school’s resuscitation research program. “It continues for a few hours after death, albeit in a hibernated state we cannot see from the outside.”
[MORE: Strange Tales From the Frontiers of Resuscitation Medicine]
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![Tiny, glowing probes packed with LEDs and sensors are scientists’ newest tool for measuring and manipulating the brain and other living tissues. They’re flexible, they can operate wirelessly, and yes, they’re small enough to fit through the eye of a needle.
Check out the image on the left: An LED probe lights up a mouse brain.
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Tiny, glowing probes packed with LEDs and sensors are scientists’ newest tool for measuring and manipulating the brain and other living tissues. They’re flexible, they can operate wirelessly, and yes, they’re small enough to fit through the eye of a needle.
Check out the image on the left: An LED probe lights up a mouse brain.
[MORE]
(Source: Wired)
Everybody knows a computer is a machine made of metal and plastic, with microchip cores turning streams of electrons into digital reality.
A century from now, though, computers could look quite different. They might be made from neurons and chemical baths, from bacterial colonies and pure light, unrecognizable to our old-fashioned 21st century eyes.
Far-fetched? A little bit. But a computer is just a tool for manipulating information. That’s not a task wedded to some particular material form. After all, the first computers were people, and many people alive today knew a time when fingernail-sized transistors, each representing a single bit of information, were a great improvement on unreliable vacuum tubes.
Check out our take on some very non-traditional computers over here!
(Source: Wired)
Yesteryear’s stereotype-defiers: Kick-ass vintage public domain photos of women in science.
Further proof that women + science = amazing/unstoppable.
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![Malnourished sea lion pups have started arriving in northern California – by the vanload.
It’s a three-day, two-night trip for the weary mammalian travelers, with overnight stops in San Luis Obispo and Moss Landing. At the end of the road: The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, where the pups will be cared for and returned to health.
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Malnourished sea lion pups have started arriving in northern California – by the vanload.
It’s a three-day, two-night trip for the weary mammalian travelers, with overnight stops in San Luis Obispo and Moss Landing. At the end of the road: The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, where the pups will be cared for and returned to health.
[More SUPER CUTENESS over @ Wired Science]
(Source: Wired)
Want to make an alligator angrier than normal? Make it use a treadmill.
(Source: Wired)
