What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?Conclusion? "Everything within roughly a mile of the park is leveled, and a firestorm engulfs the surrounding city. The baseball diamond is now a sizable crater, centered a few hundred feet behind the former location of the backstop. A careful reading of official ( Read more... )

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Amazing World of Insect-Wing Color Discovered

Until now, the wing colors of many flies and wasps were dismissed as random iridescence. But they may be as distinctive and marvelous as the much-studied, much-celebrated wings of butterflies and beetles. ... Generations of biologists seem to have missed this partly because they didn’t look for it, and ( Read more... )

WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags

Although my understanding is that even "biodegradable" stuff doesn't decompose all that well in landfills either, because of the way they're packed, but hey, it's something.