Astronomers have discovered the largest known structure in the universe, a clump of active galactic cores that stretches 4 billion light-years from end to end. The structure is a large quasar group (LQG), a collection of extremely luminous galactic nuclei powered by supermassive central black holes. This particular group is so large that it ( Read more... )

The idea for an eternal clock that would continue to keep time even after the universe ceased to exist has intrigued physicists. However, no one has figured out how one might be built, until now ( Read more... )

"You don’t have sex near unicorns. It’s tacky."

Poll

I believe in laboratories, looking at ways to conduct electricity with -- with cold fusion, if we can come up with it. It was the University of Utah that solved that. We somehow can’t figure out how to duplicate it.

-- Mitt Romney, in 2011, talking to the Washington ExaminerA laundry list of the strange things Romney seems to believe would not ( Read more... )

The Dawn Spacecraft has reached Warp Factor 0.03

According to Dr. Harold White of NASA's advanced propulsion physics laboratory at Johnson Space Center, new calculations indicate that something similar to Star Trek's Warp Drive is "plausible and worth further investigation." And according to Dr. White, they plan on testing the feasibility of the idea in the laboratory.

Via Daily KosI'm not ( Read more... )

Nearly 65% think Barack Obama would be better suited than Mitt Romney to handle an alien invasion.

National Geographic, via USA Today.

You know it's bad when you've lost the H.G. Wells crowd.

(this polling was done in late June, still it's hard to imagine Romney's image on this having improved since then, especially after today's events)

"[Is] it possible that a fire-breathing animal really existed? Today some scientists are saying yes. They have found large chambers in certain dinosaur skulls…The large skull chambers could have contained special chemical-producing glands. When the animal forced the chemicals out of its mouth or nose, these substances may have combined and produced ( Read more... )

World's tiniest fly may decapitate ants, live in their heads.

Fox News

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