Dr. Theodore P. Hill asks his mathematics students at the Georgia Institute of
Technology to go home and either flip a coin 200 times and record the results,
or merely pretend to flip a coin and fake 200 results. The following day he runs
his eye over the homework data, and to the students’ amazement, he easily
fingers nearly […]

The Bush administration wants to restart a controversial program to
reprocess spent nuclear fuel, a technology abandoned by the United
States decades ago as a costly security risk, a congressional source
said on Friday.

NASA’s top climate scientist said the Bush administration has tried to
stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture in December calling
for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases, The New York
Times said on Saturday.

A wireless local area network adapted for use by users traveling on a mobile platform such as an aircraft. Finally.

Australia Post has released a scratch and sniff stamp featuring a rose for Valentine’s Day cards and letters.

This is very cool!  If you have open rooftop space, you can get this cube to add an extra living unit.  Movable by helicopter.  Great photos.

When a worm is chopped in two, the missing part often re-grows. Researchers at several biotech companies are challenging the assumption that humans can’t perform a similar feat by developing drugs that encourage self-regeneration.

Chris Anderson:  Be careful what you wish for, all of you with the "Please, God, just one more bubble!" bumper stickers. It’s getting wild again in Silicon Valley. In recent months, the breathtaking ascent of Google has lit a fire under its competitors, which include practically everyone in the online world. The result is all […]

Jeep is testing out a new "turn on a dime" rotational feature where the axils flex hydraulically under a unique fender design and wheels are controlled individually to enable unusual movements.  Great photo.