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The First Photograph of a Human 138

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @07:58PM from the fist-cheese dept.

wiredog writes "The Atlantic has a brief piece on what is likely to be the first photograph (a daguerreotype) showing a human. From the article: 'In September, Krulwich posted a set of daguerreotypes taken by Charles Fontayne and William Porter in Cincinnati 162 years ago, on September 24, 1848. Krulwich was celebrating the work of the George Eastman House in association with the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Using visible-light microscopy, the George Eastman House scanned several plates depicting the Cincinnati Waterfront so that scholars could zoom in and study the never-before-seen details.'"

The Bomb Squad Olympiad Starts Today 43

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @11:07AM from the explosions-for-all-ages dept.

The bomb suit relay and the robot obstacle course are just two of the events you can enjoy at the Bomb Squad Olympiad. Over the next three days squads from across South Carolina will compete and showcase their bomb defusing capabilities for the public. I hear the deep fried dynamite is especially good.

The Proton Just Got Smaller 289

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 08, 2010 @12:00PM from the size-does-matter dept.

inflame writes "A new paper published in Nature has said that the proton may be smaller than we previously thought. The article states 'The difference is so infinitesimal that it might defy belief that anyone, even physicists, would care. But the new measurements could mean that there is a gap in existing theories of quantum mechanics. "It's a very serious discrepancy," says Ingo Sick, a physicist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who has tried to reconcile the finding with four decades of previous measurements. "There is really something seriously wrong someplace."' Would this indicate new physics if proven?"

Comment Re:Methane eating bacteria? (Score 1) 91

by Government Drone on Wednesday June 09, 2010 @06:09AM (#32508014) Attached to: Methane-Eating Bacteria May Presage ET Life

Sure do. But not these ones.

"These are not the bacteria you are looking for..."

Scientists Use Sex-Crazed Bugs As Pesticide 107

Posted by samzenpus on Friday March 19, 2010 @07:41PM from the doin'-it-hopper-style dept.

ByronScott writes "In today's 'gross news' category, some female insects just might be getting lucky. As an alternative to toxic pesticides, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have created 'super-sexed' sterilized male leafhoppers to knock bug boots with females in the wild, resulting in decreased populations. Yes, that means that the female bugs will miss out on the joys of motherhood, but the idea that the insects will be having some fun instead of being gassed to death by poisons is pretty cool."

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