The Skeptical Community

On Sept. 2, the sleek Perlan 2 glider carried two pilots to 76,100 feet, or more than 14 miles, over the El Calafate region in southern Argentina.

Robot boat sails into history by finishing Atlantic crossing

All summer, the small boat drifted steadily eastward across the churning North...

The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995

This really gives a new meaning to the “paper of record....

Guess along about which social science studies will replicate
Medium

Teaser:
...

My general heuristic is the following:
If the study implies...

For once not a coast dweller, but from an oasis in the midst of more than 2 million square kilometers of desert with sand dunes.

Article: .

Present situation:

For the US:

No, not that one, idiot, the Brit one. :x

Just finished a book about Trafalgar wherein His Lordship whupped the asses of the froggies and Spanish....

Former refugee among winners of Fields medal – the 'Nobel prize for maths'

Caucher Birkar grew up on a farm near the Kurdish city of Marivan in...

400,000 Scientists All Over the World Have Been Published in Fake Journals

Journalists investigated widespread fraud within the scientific...

For the mathematically minded, an article I found interesting (a tad journalistic in some parts) about Octonions (or Cayley's Octaves as they are...

A father and son tandem from New Zealand has introduced the first ever colored x-ray scanner adapted from technology used in finding the Higgs...

Yep. It's today. They tested a version of Fat Man (how ironic) 72 years ago this day at 5 something in the AM. Did we even have DST yet?

This maybe...

The Canadian specimen literally defies words, in more ways than one. As this article went to press, museum staff were finalizing the creature’s...

I actually heard this a few days ago, but it's not very old news yet.

The United States Patent Office recently issued its 10 millionth patent, last...

PUNA, BIG ISLAND (HawaiiNewsNow) -
Residents in Puna's Leilani Estates subdivision fled with little more than the clothes on their backs Thursday...

Calibrate your skeptometers before reading this ...

Scientists have finally figured out the reason behind a small but noticeable uptick in the...

Inside the Hyperloop: the pneumatic travel system faster than the speed of sound

It is called “The Hyperloop” and, according to the designer, it...

Details:

Alas, seems stuck at the prototype stage. :(

Machines designed to change humans

Yes, this can be a scary topic: machines designed to influence human beliefs and behaviors. But there’s good...

Apparently this is the evidence:

Concentration of CFC-11 in the Northern (red) and Southern (blue) Hemispheres compared to projected decline (gray...

Turing Test be damned, this is impressive.

At this year’s Google I/O developer’s conference in Mountain View, Google demoed a very natural-sounding...

I think we're about to enter a new era. Sort of like the Internet and smart phones and Google ushered in a new era in the 90s and aughts, we are...

The Golden State Killer raped and murdered victims all across the state of California in an era before Google searches and social media, a time when...

A electromagnetic thruster concept has been lurking about since about 2001. Developed by Roger Shawyer , the claim was it did not require propellant....

Happened across this

Lockheed Martin seeks to clean up space junk

The title says enough to get the gist without infringing on the copyright of an...

Active bionics making a profound difference. One brand new user remarks while trying the bionic legs for the very first time,
Oh my god, I can't...

:coolspecs:

DNA Nobel Laureate James Watson Joins Shenzhen Research Center
China Money Network

James Watson, the Nobel laureate who...

Mount Etna is sliding toward the ocean.

Drilling Geothermal Wells With Projectiles

The average depth of an oil well is only about a kilometer and a half, and drilling down to 5 km...

The aliens are silent because they're dead
Science Daily

The universe is probably filled with habitable planets, so many scientists think it...

An artificial intelligence algorithm developed by Stanford researchers can determine a neighborhood’s political leanings by its cars

Stanford...

Fun! :)

Just so Rob can bitch some more… :twisted:

Designed by the former Chief Designer of Isuzu’s commercial truck division, Steve Jennes, now Chief...

Futurism: How to Survive a Black Hole

But at the edge of the Cauchy horizon, on the brink of singularity, the laws of physics don’t apply. So, not...

I am wondering if you can see these things from Sarasota area. Gotta know when

Gnome, you ever see one from where you are?

These guys are further...

OK. It's really four and a half year old news but I just heard about it.

Proxima Centauri's no good, very bad day
Science Daily

Summary:...

They will be going over the raw data finding new stuff for years. :coolspecs:

New Horizons Yields Wealth of Discovery from Pluto Flyby
Space...

:roll:

High school science fair project questioning African American intelligence sparks outrage
Sacramento Bee

Students, parents and staff...

Live feed, 4 minutes to go...

Nothing new, but a pleasant documentary to watch:

When I first read this headline I was pretty skeptical. The Daily Mail said:

Deadly earthquakes could hit a BILLION people next year because of...

Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces New Technology for Fast-Charging, Noncombustible Batteries

AUSTIN, Texas — A team of engineers led by...

Anyone recently been having a lot of audio sync issues with Netflix?

I use it on the XBOX One and it's been fine since installed, until just the...

I put this thread in science and mathematics even though it technically belongs in Politics and Social Events. Its not that I want to avoid the...

I was listening to some Saturday radio yesterday, you know, where shills buy time on stations that have otherwise respectable content.

A large...

Cool stuff.

Physicists Demonstrate How to Reverse of the Arrow of Time
The extraordinary experiment opens the door to a new generation of...

Darwin Was Sexist, and So Are Many Modern Scientists
Scientific American

Analysis: First they came for Art, but I said nothing because I was not...

Forensic scientists caught a deer munching on a human carcass for the first time ever
Popular Science

Two communes in Brittany are going to test them, so apparently they exist. The interesting points are:
– rechargeable in minutes;
– 100 km autonomy;...

Best viewed full screen. :coolspecs: