It hurts to look at this picture
Viruses dramatically increase cellular metabolism, and existing anti-obesity drugs may represent a new way to block these metabolic changes and inhibit viral infection, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Biotechnology.

 The Smaudi A3
Not real excited about the look of the super fuel efficient Smart Car? Have no fear. Here are some very interesting kits that are available to people hoping for a sportier vehicle. (Pics)
 

Yves Rossy Rockets into Action
A Swiss daredevil crossed the English Channel strapped to a homemade jet-propelled wing Friday, parachuting into a field near the white cliffs of Dover after a 10-minute solo flight.
 

Bikinis rank lower than ski clothes in this study
The fair sex might find it hard to believe but a new study has claimed that women’s bare body in winter is a bigger turn-on for men. (Pics)

The life of a superhero is not all glamor.  Especially when your costume fails
to convey any sense of trust, or purpose, or, what the hell is that thing?
Imagine yourself being 300 feet below the surface, trying to swim towards fresh air, where the world is normal again. Struggling for that next gasp of breathable air. [...]

 
 Sound Chair
Although this chair looks like it’s made from LEGO, designer Matthew Plummer Fernandez actually used a much more geeky material in building it: sound waves. The Sound/Chair has contours that precisely match sound waves mapped on a 3D graph of volume (height), frequency (depth), and time (width).  We love the purple color, too (but [...]

 
Researchers at Purdue University are working on tech that will turn every cellphone into a roaming nuclear weapon sniffer and are lobbying Congress to legally require cellphone users and carriers to participate. The Distributed Nuclear Detection by Ubiquitous Cellphone project would be kind of like the massive cellphone dragnet in The Dark Knight, but it [...]

 
Researchers from the University of Missouri have made a major contribution to the field of medicine and the use of gold nanoparticles to treat everything from arthritis to cancer and in new modes of medical imaging — not to mention the dozens of other fields that utilize gold nanoparticles in processes and/or products.

 
Rigid, stuck-to-the-wall blackboards will soon find their way to the recycling house. In an era where ‘monologues’ are taboo, the Flexboard comes as a perfect response to our ‘interactivity’ needs. It is an established fact that classrooms are the best places to learn. Hence, it is also essential that the learning is structured to suit [...]

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MIT researchers have designed a new robotic underwater vehicle that can hover in place like a helicopter — an invaluable tool for deepwater oil explorers, marine archaeologists, oceanographers and others.