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The scale of Universe Interactive,

scaring ...

Something for the plant folks... assuming you have enough travel budget...

It is a nice conference indeed, I've been to many of the previous editions (they changed the name of the conference this year)...

There are few certainties in plant biology. But, surely, leaves are green and designed to engage in photosynthesis. Well, it ain't necessarily so. Underground leaves of Philcoxia trap and digest nematodes...discovering a new carnivorous plant.

This look like a perfect ACT project :)

Around since last July, the TacoCopter website suddenly grabbed the web's attention days ago with its claim that they will take your order via a smartphone and deliver tacos straight to your location with GPS-guided, unmanned quadcopters....

According to the picture of the quadrocopter, you end up being chased by four flying, GPS-guided rotating blades...

http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4141

New research reported in San Diego on March 27 at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) provides further support for the idea that comets bombarding Earth billions of years ago carried and deposited the key ingredients for life to spring up on the planet. "Our research shows that the building blocks of life could, indeed, have remained intact despite the tremendous shock wave and other violent conditions in a comet impact," Blank said. "Comets really would have been the ideal packages for delivering ingredients for the chemical evolution thought to have resulted in life.

I will never sleep thinking that these things are everywhere....

As far as I'm concerned, that's next Nobel in chemistry :)

Directory relaxed to our arianda study, Guido have a Look please

Ambitious

Areva, yes, the nuclear world leader is building one of the largest solar thermal plant .... in India

Not so good news ...

Have a look at the US budget and the incredible amount of money they are spending for military purposes. It's as simple as that.

Autonomous sailing boat planned for setting a new record

The way that Mexican jumping beans move by detecting temperature gradients could be applied to designing robotic beans. Most animals move around by using their appendages, such as legs, wings, or fins. But a few exceptional creatures employ rolling as a mode of locomotion.

A new type of hydrogel could make for high-performance energy-storage electrodes and biosensors.