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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” –Cicero

Guess what that eensy weensy thingamajig is? A satellite, the size of a stamp. Developed at Cornell University, this “smallsat” is getting a test run aboard the International Space Station.

Image:Cornell University

This is what a wearable computer looks like. It can turn any surface (including your own body) into a touchscreen! This technology is seriously amazing. The OmniTouch is the creation of Chris Harrison, a PhD student in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. See how it works!

Traveling faster than light is, as you’ve probably guessed, impossible. Einstein’s theory of special relativity is as valid now as it was this time last month. And yet, if you’ve read the headlines recently, you’d think some kind of physics revolution is at hand.

The recent hubbub surrounding those pesky superluminal neutrinos has been met with incredulity from experts and public alike. But the facts are hard to ignore: An experiment at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, appears to have clocked neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light. In short, these neutrinos have achieved the impossible.

If true, these results would be very exciting, but sadly, as the days roll on, “superluminal” doesn’t appear to be a setting on the neutrino’s speedometer.

When I read the research, it struck me that the effect was so tiny, any number of factors could have caused it and are more likely than that the neutrinos actually exceeded light speed.

But here's a joke for you:

Bartender: We don't serve Faster Than Light Neutrinos in here!

Computer gamers solve problem in AIDS research that puzzled scientists for years

By playing a game called Foldit, where players (often with no scientific background) try to fold protein structures into their likely structures, players have unlocked a key structure in the fight against HIV.

By simply tweaking a chain of amino acids over and over until they get it to fold into a realistic, stable structure, these gamers were able to deduce the 3-D structure of a key protein in Mason-Pfizer monkey virus, a relative of HIV. Now that we know the structure, drugs may be designed to attack this key protein.

So next time someone tells you to stop playing that game, open up Foldit and tell them you’re doing science!

From the YouTube user:

“A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy. Raw data was downloaded from;

The Gateway To Astronaut Photography of Earth  ”http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/mrf.htm ”. Virtualdub was used to create the final movie. You can see more beautiful images of our universe at my blog;  http://infinity-imagined.tumblr.com/”