[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
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Japanese researchers have produced a new species of goldfish with see-through skin. You can see the fish’s beating heart, brain, and other internal organs, right through its invisible scales. And that’s precisely the point–the scientists created the fish to eliminate the need for dissections, which are getting ever more controversial… Read the full […]
Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: If you’re looking for a buzz on New Year’s Eve, consider the automatic wireless drink mixer — a contraption that’s generating a buzz on the Internet.
Archaeology magazine’s top 10 discoveries of the year shed light on everything from the domestication of horses in Central Asia to the world’s first zoo in Egypt.
Flash forward to about a year from now, if you will. Envision yourself walking into a consumer electronics store toward the end of 2010. What kinds of HDTV products and features is your retail salesperson likely to tout?
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Dear Pablo: What is the environmental impact of fireworks? It seems like it must create a lot of greenhouse gas emissions.
That is a very popular question around the 4th of July and New Year’s Eve. In fact I have answered this question before. The following answer originally appeared on Salon.com in […]
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We humans make do with only two eyes. Spiders typically have eight eyes. Some insects and arthropods have compound eyes, made up of hundreds, even thousands, of lenses. According to new research, however, sea urchins might even top that. Indeed, scientists believe that an urchin’s entire body might act as one giant eye…. […]
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A new survey shows that clean tech investing will do just fine in 2010, despite the unfortunate outcome of the Copenhagen talks. The Jeffreys survey shows that globally, investments will remain healthy but particularly strong in Europe. In fact, rather than slowing, analyst firm New Energy Finance predicts that global clean tech […]
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Touted as a device for avid birdwatchers who don’t have time to get out in the field, the Birdwatchercam can be mounted to a tree to track your feathered friends. But, if you’re an avid birdwatcher, wouldn’t you rather see the birds? Well, if you lack the time, here’s a gadget you might […]
There is something about a nice tree house; perhaps we all either had one as a kid or wished we did, our own private little space. Architect Christopher Smith designed this little gem.
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This is, well, strange. It’s a device you can drag around behind you to gather kinetic energy. Called the Green Erg, it is a human-powered electricity-generator developed by Dr. Cedrick Ngalande, who hopes that it will be a solution for cheap electricity for rural Africans…. Read the full story on TreeHugger