Archive for the ‘Science & Tech’ category
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New ‘Warehouse 13′ Farnsworth App Available
If you’re a fan of ‘Warehouse 13′, and a steampunk fan in general, then iTunes has an app for you! Now you can communicate with your friends and family just like Myka and Pete using the same signature interface of the steampunk communications device from the hit... -
Science Feature: God’s Asteroid
A three mile wide, billion ton asteroid hits Europe. This unimaginable catastrophe actually happened five thousand years ago, and astonishingly, there is an ancient eyewitness account, as well as the aftermath described in The Bible. The “Planisphere” tablet was discovered... -
Science Feature: Terminal Decision
The princess was beautiful but willful. It was entirely in character that she should wake in the pre-dawn glimmer and leave her chamber unobserved, to walk barelegged in the dew. And it was there, in the old meadows surrounding the chateau, that they took her. They had been incredibly... -
Science Feature: The Vampire Mutation
They said the passenger pigeons were dense enough to blacken the skies. They said the bison on the plains were more than the sand-grains on a beach. But these were as nothing compared to the human cattle that walk the earth today. Never have there been such herds: so pleasingly... -
Science Feature: We Know What You’re Going To Do!
You’re strolling along Acacia Avenue just like last week and the week before: the rucksack slung over your back is for the swag. This is a well-off area: middle class mansions in treed gardens with plenty of cover – they do like their privacy here. Your preference is for... -
Science Feature: The Wonderful Emmy Noether
Sciencefiction.com supports geek girls – women interested in science and technology. So let me tell you about a role model – one of the best scientists and mathematicians who has ever lived. Let’s meet the wonderful Emmy Noether. — Here’s Emmy at six years old,... -
DC Graphic Novels Exclusive To Amazon’s New Kindle Fire
A Kindle Fire with a page from the graphic novel 'Superman: Earth One' Yesterday, Amazon announced a new Kindle, the Fire. The Kindle Fire is possibly the first Android tablet to be a serious threat to Apple’s iPad. With a dual-core processor, Wi-Fi, a web browser that... -
Science Feature: Faster Than Light
Despite the hubbub – the journalists jostling for that final refill of wine, the smoke, the noise and confusion – I couldn’t help noticing how Professor Randall kept stroking the explosives pack strapped to her astonishing piece of equipment. It was a balmy evening... -
Spaceship Factory Now Open For Business
In a move where science fiction has become reality, the first privately owned spaceship factory has now been completed in the Mojave Desert in California bringing us closer to actual space tourism. The Spaceship Co. is a joint venture of Scaled Composites (a Mojave, California... -
Science Feature: New Super-Earths
A planet orbits a faraway star. Although it’s light it tugs on its parent sun, so that sometimes the star is pulled slightly towards us, and sometimes pushed away. How can we tell? That tiny orbital-wiggle creates a slowly-oscillating Doppler shift in the frequency of the starlight... -
Netflix To Only Offer Streaming Services, Separates DVD Business With Qwikster.com
Hot on the heels of Netflix’s recent announcement of customer losses and stock drops, company CEO Reed Hasting made an announcement late last night that changes the company even more. After apologizing to Netflix customers for the recent confusion, Hasting announced the creation... -
Netflix Stock Trouble Leads To Rethinking The Company’s Future
When Netflix announced that it was changing the pricing of its services to split streaming video and DVD rentals into two distinct options and begin charging for streaming, customers and fans of the service were distraught. However, until now, no one knew exactly how much. Since... -
Science Feature: Alien Parasite
The last President of the United States sat in the purple-strewn ruins of the Rose Garden and reminisced companionably with her Secretary of Defense. “Do you remember, Dick, how we pulled you out of retirement when we realized the terrible nature of the threat?” Cheney smiled... -
Symphony Of Science Sonically Unveils ‘The Quantum World’
Today, the Symphony of Science website unveiled its latest music video called ‘The Quantum World’ where it musically investigates the nature of atoms and subatomic particles or as the video states “the jiggly things” that make up everything we see. “The Quantum... -
Science Feature: The Perils Of Mind Uploading
In a few decades time it will be possible to scan a living brain at the resolution of individual neurons: cell bodies, dendrites and axons. The next step will be to ‘parse’ such a ‘bitmap’ into a computerized functional model of your brain – your virtual – which will...
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