Not exactly a cat in either size, ability, or furriness, but the SkyCat does like to purrrrrr along
They’re not going to replace the 747, but it looks like the airships may be making a comeback.
New zeppelin technologies being put into use by companies such as SkyCat of Britain and Germany’s Zeppelin NT would bring [...]

Research shows that smoking damages your mind to the point where you don’t want to stop
Middle-aged adults who smoke tended to perform poorly on tests of memory and reasoning compared to non-smokers, adding to the list of reasons not to smoke, French researchers said.

 
Hey, your sperm just called and said their not up for breakin’ eggs today
In a recent pilot study done at Jawaharlal Nehru University, rats subjected to radiation from mobile phones were found to have damaged DNA and low sperm count, leading to infertility and reduction in testis size. The Union health ministry now wants to [...]

Okay, so maybe it’s not love…
Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars. Second video after the jump.
 

Scientists unveiled the world’s fastest supercomputer on Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.
 

And since our bodies are made up mostly of water…

Our thanks to Marshall Dudley of Knoxville, TN for sharing his granddaughter, Arielle Reynolds’, experiment with us. Both Arielle’s mother, Christina, and Grandpa have much to be proud of. Congratulations, Arielle, well done!

“Below is a sience fair project that my granddaughter did for 2006. In [...]

Step Right Into The Wi-Fi Zones

“A Step in the Right Direction” is a sneaker that detects Wi-Fi while you walk, via a tricky network detection unit embedded under the left shoe flap.
The three LEDs on the flap (supposedly) show you how much Wi-Fi action is within 50 meters. If the lights are blinky, you’ve got [...]

 
We understand these gentlemen are known as The Green Leaves. You’ll see why.

Nano-thinking at work

The days of having to decide between paper, plastic or cast iron bags at the grocery store are numbered thanks to the development of a new type of extremely tough nanopaper. The paper is made from nanosized (oh I get it!) cellulose fibers making it both stronger and lighter than traditional papers.

Now That’s A Face Only A Mother Could Love

As biologists are busy working on cloning living organisms, engineers are working on a mechanical counterpart – creating non-living things that can replicate themselves.