The line of towering wind turbines stand motionless on the ridgeline above Interstate 70 in central Kansas, Y-shaped silhouettes amid the swirling snow. Despite the weather, dozens of technicians are working to get the 10-mile-long Smoky Hills Wind Farm ready to begin producing electricity.

All that glitters golden is not gold. It could be aluminum. Or tungsten. Or another metal of Chunlei Guo’s choosing. In a feat of optical alchemy, Dr. Guo, a professor of optics at the University of Rochester,
and Anatoliy Y. Vorobyev, a postdoctoral researcher, use ultrashort
laser bursts to pockmark the surface of a metal in a […]

Most of us pay very little attention to the vast underseas world of the Internet.  With recent line cuts that have cause massive connection outages in the Middle East, it’s important to pay attention to these backbones. (w/pics)

This is an actual photo of the surface of Mars.  It’s just a coincidence that it looks like a smiley face… we think.  Maybe Mars is actually trying to talk to us and we haven’t been able to read the clues so far. (w/pic)

Swarms of robots that use electromagnetic forces to cling together
and assume different shapes are being developed by US researchers. The grand goal is to create swarms of microscopic robots capable of morphing into virtually any form by clinging together.

This Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed by Leggett & Platt looks
like the crib of the century, and we’re not even finished with the
first decade yet. First of all, it keeps an eye on what you’re doing
all night long, diagnosing your movement and breathing patterns, and
even sensing that buzz-saw snoring that keeps everybody in the house
awake […]

The Wine Rack is a sports-style bra which contains a special boob-enhancing polyurethane bladder that can be filled with your drink of choice.

An inquest heard yesterday how a 35-year-old man literally drank himself to death after consuming too much water.

The US drug safety regulator on Friday warned physicians that drugs used in
treating epilepsy, migraine and other conditions carry an increased risk of
suicidal thoughts and
behavior.