thejokell:

betterworlds:

Today, in things we never expected to be posting to this blog as serious technology: The Warp Drive.

Apparently, scientists at NASA have developed a mathematical model showing that true warp drive may be possible using practical amounts of energy.

This would make it possible to get to the star system closest to Earth in about 5 months.

Amazing.  Now, they must test it in the lab.

Words cannot express how awesome this is.  Somehow I doubt I’ll ever live to see it happen, but this makes me so happy and excited.  

Plus, who wouldn’t love to travel the stars in a giant football?

jtotheizzoe:

An X-ray of a stingray, whose cartilage skeleton (similar to that of sharks) looks like one of those embryonic alien incubators from the opening scene of a horrific sci-fi movie.

(via Twisted Sifter)

npr:

discoverynews:

Listen to the Higgs Boson

Researchers say they have “sonified” the data from the Atlas experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, making it possible to “hear” the newly discovered Higgs Boson-like particle, dubbed the “God particle” by Nobel-prize winning physicist Leon Lederman.

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Photo: Score of the sonification. The bump corresponding to the new particle is represented by a F note which is two octaves above the preceding F note, a C which is the most acute note in the music, representing the peak of the Higgs, and a E note. Credit: Domenico Vicinanza

— tanya b.

motherjones:

What’s up, Washington State.

March was an epically weird weather month.

whitehousephotostream:

P100311PS-0481:

President Barack Obama congratulates Google Science Fair winners, from left, Naomi Shah, Shree Bose, and Lauren Hodge in the Oval Office, Oct. 3, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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But WAIT! Society has taught me that girls are really bad at math and science! WHERE ARE ALL TEH MENZ?!