“There's been a lot of talk about Thorium lately, but what's it all about? Will it be the future of energy?”

Tags: guest content + video + ColdFusion + thorium + nuclear power + cross posted

“ALON - Transparent Aluminum - is a ceramic composed of Aluminium, Oxygen and Nitrogen. Transparent Aluminum, was once pure science fiction, a technical term used in a Star Trek Movie from the 80’s.

In the movie Star Trek 4 The Voyage Home, Captain Kirk and his team, go back in time to acquire 2 whales from the past and transport them back to the future. Scotty needed some materials to make a holding tank for whales on his ship, but had no money to pay for the materials,

So Scotty uses his knowledge of 23 third century technology and the manufacturers computer and programs in, how to make the Transparent Aluminum Molecule.

Transparent Aluminum or Aluminum Oxynitride, also known as ALON, is much stronger than Standard Glass and over time will become cheaper to make, but until then will most likely be used for NASA & the Military.”

Tags: guest content + video + Star Trek + transparent aluminum + polymers + cereamics + aluminium oxynitride + ALON + Wonder World + Paramount + These Are The Voyages + science coolness

“New Eyedrops Could Repair Corneas, Make Glasses Unnecessary”

Tags: eyeglasses + cornea + eyedrops + Israeli + nearsightedness + longsightedness + bifocal

“Standing desks 'increase pain' and slow down mental ability, study suggests”

Tags: standing desks + pain + mental ability

“Scientists Have Found an ‘Off Switch’ For Celiac’s Disease”

Tags: Celiac’s Disease + gluten + gluten-free diet + Michael Yi

“Malthusian Specter Pushed Back Further: Crops Engineered to Use 25 Percent Less Water”

Tags: water + farming + Malthusian + photosynthesis

“Scientists are making carbon fiber from plants instead of petroleum”

Tags: Jeremy Deaton + clipping + carbon fiber + plants + petroleum + acrylonitrile + wheat straw + corn stalks + oil + ammonia + oxygen + catalyst + toxic byproduct + Gregg Beckham + National Renewable Energy Laboratory

"3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet rewrites the history of maths - and shows the Greeks did not develop trigonometry"

Tags: clipping + Sarah Knapton + Greeks + Babylonians + trigonometry

“The Myth of a Superhuman AI"

Tags: clipping + Kevin Kelly + artifical intelligence

“A Molecule In Bees' Royal Jelly Promotes Wound Healing”

Tags: royal jelly + healing + defensin-1

“The mathematical prodigy who gave the world ‘bits’”

Tags: Claude Shannon + Al Gore + information age + 1948 + A Mind at Play + Jimmy Son + Rob Goodman + mathematical prodigy + Michigan + telegraphs + first chess playing computer + juggling clown + Bell Labs

“Low-cost smart glove wirelessly translates the American Sign Language alphabet into text”

Tags: Really Nifty Cool Stuff + glove + translates + American Sign Language + Timothy O'Connor + Darren Lipomi + University of California + San Diego

“Green method developed for making artificial spider silk”

Tags: skimmed + artificial spider silk + Really Nifty Cool Stuff + University of Cambridge + Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences + spider silk + Darshil Shah

“Microsoft's Plan to Beam Internet Over TV Frequencies Is So Crazy It Might Work”

Tags: skimmed + Adam Clark Estes + computers + internet + Microsoft + white space + infrastructure

“The fruits and vegetables we know and love did not always look the way they do now. Here's a look at their ancestors.”

“Science Reveals the Secret to Ancient Rome's Indestructible Concrete”

“Caterpillar-Grown Flu Vaccine Protects Better Than Egg-Incubated Vaccine”

“Brain Implant Allows Paralyzed People To Control An Exoskeleton With Their Mind”

“UH Researchers Report New, More Efficient Catalyst for Water Splitting”