Work with me here.  It's way too late at night, I can't sleep and this is the kind of thing I think about at this hour. Here's...

In the process of investigating a good idea (said process being one that even Stephen Hawking said could destroy the Earth), those wacky b...

Because I don't want to go to bed with two consecutive posts pertaining to Star Wars staring me in the face (no matter how good, or how ...

Two researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed an optical storage system that can hold 1 to 2 terabytes of data on a dis...

My mind is reeling from thinking about the applications possible with this... A sharp-thinking dude named Ramesh Raskar and his team of tec...

The Swarm , a new roller coaster set to open at an amusement park in London later this month, might have to be toned down a bit. This after...

Crazy buff for wild engineering that I be, this lil' news item just blows my mind... A team of researchers from the University of Califo...

Those clever boffins (as our British brethren love to call such technical folk) at CERN in Switzerland have really made a mess of things t...

There's a chap named Richard Handl in southern Sweden who is right curious about things like physics and nuclear chemistry. So he, umm...

Wasn't this the kind of thing that the DHARMA Initiative was playing with on that mysterious Island? We all know how great that turne...

The wacky world of quantum mechanics has claimed another victim from the world of common sense. Specifically the equivalence principle long...

It's hard to believe now, but Theodore Maiman's discovery was turned down from scholarly publication when he first submitted it! A...

Here's something that's intrigued me for quite a few years. Saturn - the second biggest planet in the solar system - has an odd fea...

Someday in our foreseeable future, our children will be learning about chemistry with a periodic table that looks something like this... ......

Light in a vacuum travels at about 186,000 miles per second. Now a group of scientists has slowed down a beam of light so that it only goes...

Assuming that we could ever figure out how to travel faster than the speed of light, there may not be a heck of a lot that we could do with...

Energy Tribune has a BRILLIANT essay by William Tucker about Albert Einstein's classic equation E=mc 2 : the formula describing the int...

See if you can wrap your noggin around this one: the Large Hadron Collider - that super-powered high-energy thingamabob at CERN in Switzer...

It's a very rare moment when I read something for the first time that goes almost completely over the top of my head. This is one of t...

Sounds like a Marvel Comic character in the making, doesn't it? Scientists working for NASA have created a device which uses magnetic fi...