Fish don’t have eyes to see up!
Watch how Matt Watson tries the latest form of stunt fishing – inspired by one of the greatest fish catching sea birds, the gannet… we’re not sure it’s going to catch on though! Second video after the jump.

The edge of the universe
NASA has made its huge collection of historic photographs, film and video available to the public for the first time.  A partnership with the non-profit Internet Archive has 21 major NASA imagery collections merged into a single searchable online resource.

“Hey teach!”
This is a very funny combination of performance art and a prank on a teacher in the middle of a college lecture. Words after the jump.

Edible boats aren’t always what they are cracked up to be…

An edible boat race which is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK has been won by a chocolate tart.
About 30 contenders sent their vessels out to sea in the event at Eyemouth in the Scottish Borders.

 
First we had the closed door. Simple. Beautiful. Impenetrable. We sat comfortably behind it, answering it if we chose, hiding behind it if we didn’t. For centuries we were safe.
 

 
Researchers working on an artificial pancreas believe they are just a few years away from a nearly carefree way for people with diabetes to monitor blood and inject insulin as needed.

A pen enabling the user to write and sketch in the air. By focusing a laser beam 100 times a second into a point in the space, the flowlight creates small plasma points that glow in mid-air. A series of points create a continuous glowing line that looks like a line. This product can be [...]

 
A new computational language, which can describe biology like a biologist, has been developed by Jeremy Gunawardena, director of the Virtual Cell Program in Harvard Medical School. This would help researchers in studying drug interactions among other things, right on the computer.

 
 A Jupiter-sized planet passes in front of its star in this artist’s impression of a transiting exoplanet.
Research presented at a recent astronomical conference is being hailed as ushering in a new era in the search for Earth-like planets by showing that they are more numerous than previously thought and that scientists can now analyze their [...]

 
 Thermoelectric Material
Researchers have invented a new material that will make cars even more efficient, by converting heat wasted through engine exhaust into electricity. In the current issue of the journal Science, they describe a material with twice the efficiency of anything currently on the market.