I think they kicked Nissans’ Model’s Butt!
 
It’s the equivalent of taking the Hubble Telescope and aiming it at the atomic level rather than at stars and galaxies, says Gianluigi Botton, director of the new Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at McMaster, site of the world’s most advanced and powerful electron microscope…

 two pollen grains viewed by fluorescence microscopy
An enigma – unique to flowering plants – has been solved by researchers from the University of Leicester (UK) and POSTECH, South Korea.

I Dealt It, But I Am Lowering My Blood Pressure
This is true fact; I read it on the Internet.
The gas that comes from our bodies, our rears, our behinds… That gas that the boys used to set on fire, and laugh, and run from? That gas. Our smelly, embarrassing gas… is under medical investigation as [...]

 
Mice Can No Longer Remember Elephants Being Afraid Of Them
Remember those movies that show devices used to erase the mind? Well, now researchers may be one step closer to that process. Scientists have now been able to remove certain memories from mice.
“While memories are great teachers and obviously crucial for survival and adaptation, selectively removing [...]

A finger x-ray made with Scotch tape; in the background, a vacuum chamber
with a roll of Scotch tape mounted on ball bearings inside
Scientists have found that the everyday Scotch tape you use to tape paper and other household materials has another use: it produces X-rays.

 Pointing fingers in an era of confusion and distrust
The financial crisis has put a spotlight on the obscure world of credit default swaps – which trade in a vast, unregulated market that most people haven’t heard of and even fewer understand. Will this be the next disaster?

POP! It’s Tommorow already.

Perpetual Kid’s 2009 bubble calendar dupes you into paying $30 for a sheet of bubble-wrap glued to a cardboard printout. Nonetheless, it’s a bizarre and intriguing gift for any members of your family involved in the the stock market or the packaging and distribution trade.

Displaying the impressive “Half-Arnold” look.

There are calls for an inquiry into the training of New Zealand care workers after some Nelson workers claimed they received training on how to help clients achieve sexual satisfaction.
The workers say their former employer, New Zealand Care, has been running seminars with sex toys, showing staff how to help clients [...]

This watch tells much more than what time it is.

The Oracle Watch mixes the shape of a bangle with the font from an old Apple II with the I-Ching. It also tells time.

Did you know cows farting and belching is a huge greenhouse gas contributor?
A powerful greenhouse gas is at least four times more prevalent in the atmosphere than previously estimated, according to a team of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

Concept Rocket car… Reminds me of an Audi
The world record bid again teams Andy, the current record holder and first man to drive a supersonic vehicle on land with Head of the Design Team and former world record holder Richard Noble. It is aiming to develop the first land speed vehicle that breaks the 1,000 [...]

 Where is the self assembling home furniture?
From pacemakers constructed of materials that so closely mimic human tissues that a patient’s body can’t discern the difference to devices that bypass injured spinal cords to restore movement to paralyzed limbs, the possibilities presented by organic electronics read like something from a science fiction novel.