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Viagra makes flowers stand up straight

Viagra (sildenafil citrate) is good not only for treating male impotence. Israeli and Australian researchers...

3 meltdowns 1 of which was total, that is to say the entire core liquified.
1, possibly 2 containment breaches.
3 hydrogen explosions.
1 criticality...

Mosquitoes engineered to repel dengue virus
Science Daily

Summary:

Scientists have synthetically engineered mosquitoes that halt the...

AKA Is the Admiral a Pod Person?

The Navy Has Secret Classified Video of an Infamous UFO Incident

The Pentagon has Top Secret-classified briefings...

I don't know if there's much reason to be excited about this, but there are private efforts to develop nuclear fusion.

A fusion startup backed by...

I'm so happy there finally is some. :coolspecs:

I got tired of my new TV's stupid built in speakers--especially with dialog being too quiet compared to music and sound effects--and surrendered to...

I found this remarkably interesting video about a new design for a highway interchange. Just wanted to share it.

Interesting, mainly for the videos.

Not a mention of anything negative, journalism at it's finest.

You lot tell me if I am going crazy
Not a...

The video below is 15 minutes long but you don't have to watch the whole thing. Just watch one minute, six seconds and turn it off. If you can.

You...

As some of you like to listen to podcasts:
Charles Darwin's 'Beagle Diary' was BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in December 2006.

These mp3...

I figured this one could use its own thread. Seems pretty cool. I wonder how soon it will happen.

It says the video is 4K, if you have a display...

Energy Vault to build grid-level, gravity-fed battery from a tower of concrete blocks

Meeting our growing energy demands without continuing to...

Killer whale grandmothers boost survival of calves
Science Daily

New research finds that killer whale grandmothers who were no longer able to...

Back in the '90's, I used to restore antique radios from the late '30's and early forties. I did it as a hobby in my garage, mostly to get away from...

:o

Online porn ‘produces the same amount of carbon emissions as all the households in France’
Russia Today

A new study brings a whole new...

Very cool.

So, it's 13 years since we installed our gas central heating/hot water system based around a condensing boiler. While it's been fantastic to date,...

Linky

I'd like to say this guy missed his calling, he should have done stand up. Fuck the Nobel Prize in physics, let's do comedy. I've read Surely You're...

The Legislation That Targets the Racist Impacts of Tech
The New York Times

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The bill, called the Algorithmic Accountability Act and...

I've always had an interest in carnivorous plants. When I was a wee lad, just starting out in my endeavors, I tried to use Gibberellic acid to delve...

:o

Pigs caught on video using tools for the first time
Science

Hoping maybe a mathematical thinker or two can devise something that works here.

I have a list of provider groups, each being given a certain...

Gotta wonder if this isn't a case of people counting a whole lot of chickens that haven't hatched yet. Sure, Tesla is much cooler than those old...

Here's an other wise PM to Doc X...

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Elon Musk on Digging Big-Ass Tunnel: 'We Have No Idea What We’re Doing'

Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and...

Just wondering if this is some kind of audiophile woo-woo or if he has a legitimate point:

Neil Young says done with streaming due to 'worst' sound...

Always questioned, always still standing for now .

Einstein's general relativity theory is questioned but still stands for now
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The administration’s latest statement came after Russian media reports claimed dozens of medical workers had been exposed to radiation.

Reports...

(disclaimer: wife wanted HBO, we got HBO)

It's fucking really good, and the scenes about the 48 hours till doomsday is flat out one of the best ever...

Some Swiss are at it: .

Interestingly it uses waste heat. Let's just hope it can be competitive. They think yes, of course:

Thirty-Three Famous Physicists Sign Angry Letter About the Origin of the Universe

Cosmologists are in the business of figuring out how and why we...

How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars?

For purposes of this study, the planets they are including in this category are as follows:...

This idea is kinda cool, although there's too much history in the Gregorian Calendar to make it worth switching. But if we started history over from...

:De_Bunk: :cowbell:

World’s first ever human-monkey hybrid grown in lab in China
Daily Star (UK)

Not sure if that's the UK paper with tits on page 3. :)

Scientists...

LightSail 2 successfully demonstrates solar sailing

It shows that satellites can use the Sun to propel themselves.

LightSail 2 is faring much...

High levels of estrogen in the womb linked to autism
Science Daily

Scientist have identified a link between exposure to high levels of oestrogen...

I hope this can be pulled off. Apparently construction has begun on an experimental commercial scale fusion reactor , and more importantly one that...

Interesting bio:
Mitchell Feigenbaum, Physicist, Dies at 74; He Made Sense of Chaos

Which you can read here: .

To mathematicians (and perhaps...

Say what you will about Thunderf00t --he goes on and on, has agenda, get a hair cut you hippy! --he does very good Bad Science Debunkage.

Perfectly...

Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests
Science Daily

Scientists have known insects experience something like pain since...

Samsung. Who knows TVs?

Self-driving cars should be liable for accidents, not the passengers—UK gov’t

Where the manufacturer is found to be liable, the insurer will be...

The main feature of the circular runway is that it will become possible to let an aircraft operate always at landing and take-off with headwind....

At least that how I interpret this story, though still too early to call your broker and short all sex doll stocks.

How you and your friends can...