Cockroach Serves As Blueprint For Running Robot

Cockroach Serves As Blueprint For Running Robot

Engineers from Oregon State University are attempting to develop a robot capable of running effortlessly over rough terrain and they're doing it with assistance from the unlikeliest of creatures--…
Top Of The Noughties

Top Of The Noughties

With the first decade of the millennium coming to a close, it is time to take stock. What have 'The Noughties' brought us in terms of scientific advances? Some remarkable scientific discoveries were…
Physics Homework For Your Holidays

Physics Homework For Your Holidays

Scared by the void of Christmas vacations ? Unable to put just a few more feet between your mouth and the candy tray ? Suffocating in the trivialities of the chit-chat with relatives ? I have a…
Moving water in a big way

Moving water in a big way

Water management has always been a big thing in China.  This morning I read about the South-North Water Project, in which China is starting to divert huge quantities of water from the sub-…
Launch Early, Launch Often

Launch Early, Launch Often

Here's a pleasant Christmas thought-- why are rocket launches like holidays-- infrequent, big productions that tend to always be the same?  A New York Times op-ed, Faster, NASA, Faster, puts…
Algae: The New Oil

Algae: The New Oil

Algae: The New Oil It's renewable, does not affect the food channel and consumes CO2 Oil prices are rising again, and they’re going to continue to do so. We’re already seeing it at the gas pump.…