Check out the incredible footage of a ball breaking a glass filmed at an uncanny 10 million frames per second by the HyperVision HPV-X Camera of Shimadzu, a Japanese corporation that makes precision instruments, measuring instruments and medical equipment. Read more…
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Holy crap, watch a ball breaking glass at 10 million frames per second
PlanetQuest is NASA’s effort to search for new Earths, exoplanets like ours that would probably contain life too. They’re doing some really cool stuff, like this sunflower-telescope combo spaceship—”a cutting-edge effort to take pictures of planets orbiting stars far from the sun.” Imagine that—seeing the actual planets! Read more…
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NASA’s prettiest spaceship yet will take actual photos of alien worlds
If you’re a hardcore gamer, you probably know Snowdrop, the new game engine used in the new Tom Clancy’s The Division. I’m not, so I learned about Snowdrop through this new video just released for the Game Developers Conference 2014. It’s unbelievable. Read more…
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I can’t believe this is not a real forest but a game engine
Remember all that business about the NSA saying it only collects phone metadata ? Yeah, that’s not true. Not only can the NSA listen in on foreigners’ phone calls. It can record “every single” conversation in an entire country and store the recordings for 30 days at a time, according to a new Washington Post report . Read more…
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NSA System Can Record Entire Countries’ Calls for 30 Days at a Time
An anonymous reader writes “My colleague at IEEE Spectrum, Eliza Strickland, looked at the home transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) movement. People looking to boost creativity, or cure depression, are attaching electrodes to their heads using either DIT equipment or rigs from vendors like Foc.us. Advocates believe experimenting with the tech is safe, but a neuroscientist worries about removing the tech from lab safeguards…” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Is DIY Brainhacking Safe?
Apple is widely expected to launch health-monitoring software for its mobile operating system, possibly as soon as iOS 8, which should make its developer debut at WWDC this June. The software would monitor and track various aspects of a user’s health, and 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman has a new report out today that details exactly how that might work. Using recreated screenshots based on… Read More
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Apple’s Upcoming Healthbook Software For iOS 8 Extensively Profiled Amid New Leaks
Archaeologists working at a 14th century site in Denmark have uncovered numerous latrine barrels filled with their original contents. The human poop, which is described as being in “excellent condition, ” still retains a putrid odor despite its age. Read more…
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These 700-year-old barrels are filled with human excrement
EwanPalmer sends a followup to a story from last year about a team of Siberian scientists who recovered an ancient wooly mammoth carcass. It was originally believed to be about 10, 000 years old, but subsequent tests showed the animal died over 43, 000 years ago. The scientists have been surprised by how well preserved the soft tissues were. They say it’s in better shape than a human body buried for six months. “The tissue cut clearly shows blood vessels with strong walls. Inside the vessels there is haemolysed blood, where for the first time we have found erythrocytes. Muscle and adipose tissues are well preserved.” The mammoth’s intestines contain vegetation from its last meal, and they have the liver as well. The scientists are optimistic that they’ll be able to find high quality DNA from the mammoth, and perhaps even living cells. They now say there’s a “high chance” that data would allow them to clone the mammoth. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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43,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Remains Offer Strong Chance of Cloning
destinyland writes “Wednesday the geeky cartoonist behind XKCD announced that he’d publish a new book answering hypothetical science questions in September. And within 24 hours, his as-yet-unpublished work had become Amazon’s #2 best-selling book. ‘Ironically, this book is titled What If?, ‘ jokes one blogger, noting it resembles an XKCD comic where ‘In our yet-to-happen future, this book decides to travel backwards through time, stopping off in March of 2014 to inform Amazon’s best-seller list that yes, in our coming timeline this book will be widely read…’ Randall Munroe’s new book will be collecting his favorite ‘What If…’ questions, but will also contain his never-before published answers to some questions that he’d found ‘particularly neat.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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XKCD Author’s Unpublished Book Has Already Become a Best-Seller
sandbagger writes “The director of the U.S. government office that monitors scientific misconduct in biomedical research has resigned after 2 years out of frustration with the ‘remarkably dysfunctional’ federal bureaucracy. Officials at the Office of Scientific Integrity spent ‘exorbitant amounts of time’ in meetings and generating data and reports to make their divisions look productive, David Wright writes. He huge amount of time he spent trying to get things done made much of his time at ORI ‘the very worst job I have ever had.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Top U.S. Scientific Misconduct Official Quits In Frustration With Bureaucracy