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Mass Can Be 'Created' Inside Graphene, Say Physicists

gravity waves It would probably be simpler to just have many layers of doped graphene. Grow your many layered wafer onto a large sphere. Hit it... (read full comment)  

Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:28 AM EDT

The Extraordinary Tale of Red Rain, Comets and Extraterrestrials

Hey freeze it in some water, put it under vacuum, blast it with a bunch of radiation and see if it survives. (read full comment)  

Posted on September 4, 2010 at 7:34 AM EDT

Physicist Predicts Gravitational Analogue Of Electrical Transformers

Hmmm I wonder if this effect could be generated by heavy asymmetrical nuclei that are simply rotating about their own axis. The strong force would... (read full comment)  

Posted on July 8, 2010 at 2:55 AM EDT

How Technology Failed in the Gulf Spill

stopping the leak Why not just shove a giant tampon in the hole? (read full comment)  

Posted on May 10, 2010 at 11:44 PM EDT

A More Efficient Spacecraft Engine

How far? How fast? If a 1 gigawatt slow wave nuclear reactor with a 20 year fuel supply was built in orbit, with a large number of ion thrusters... (read full comment)  

Posted on September 1, 2009 at 1:42 AM EDT

Cell on a Chip

multichip I guess the next step would be to put more cells on one chip. Also some protein analyzers on the same chip would be pretty sweet. A... (read full comment)  

Posted on August 6, 2009 at 2:41 AM EDT

A New Approach to Fusion

This design has two major advantage over other fusion designs. The first is that 1.5 meters of liquid lead/lithium will easily absorb all forms... (read full comment)  

Posted on August 1, 2009 at 2:47 AM EDT

Dow to Test Algae Ethanol

Oops a single cell escapes into the ocean. After that wave action should push the ethanol, preferentially onto certain coastlines. Does ethanol... (read full comment)  

Posted on July 21, 2009 at 1:24 AM EDT

A Limb Regeneration Mystery Solved

regeneration Human fetuses have an amazing ability to regenerate skin in the first trimester. If the specific genetic switch were to be... (read full comment)  

Posted on July 4, 2009 at 5:08 AM EDT

Record-Breaking Superlens Smashes Diffraction Limit

DNA? I wonder if this technology could eventually be used to directly image base pair sequence? Perhaps a lens shaped like the eye of a needle... (read full comment)  

Posted on June 13, 2009 at 11:24 PM EDT

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