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Are birds older than dinosaurs? New evidence! 2008-02-08 20:19:00 A new analysis by researchers at the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, the Centre for Biodiversity Conservation Mexico and Central America, and Boston University offers the strongest molecular evidence yet for an ancient origin of modern birds, suggesting that they arose more than 100 million years ago, not 60 million years ago, as fossils suggest. The question is at the center ...

Finally: "a virtually unlimited energy source for propulsion" 2008-02-08 14:46:00 New fuel-free submarines are doing test dives here on the water planet. Are there implications for exploring Saturn, Jupiter and other gas planets? Like a sequel to Verne's 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, submarines that can travel thousands of miles without steam, internal combustion or nuclear power sources have been spotted, last year in Antarctic waters, and now tirelessly crisscrossing the ...

New supersonic airliner could fly 5 times the speed of sound 2008-02-07 20:53:00 Flying at more than twice the speed of Concorde and five times the speed of sound, this hypersonic airliner is set to be the future of modern air travel. At these speeds the airliner's total flight time from Brussels to Australia could be as little as four hours and forty minutes. The ground-breaking aircraft - known as the A2 – is the work of British engineers at Reaction Engines Limited in ...

NASA's Shuttle Atlantis Begins Mission to the Space Station 2008-02-07 16:57:00 Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member crew lifted off at 2:45 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 7 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center to begin the STS-122 mission to the International Space Station. During the 11-day flight, Commander Steve Frick and his six crewmates will install the European Space Agency's Columbus laboratory on the station. Columbus will expand the research facilities of the ...

Classic pulp magazine covers 2008-02-07 16:31:00 I want to thank Shaun Saunders for reminding me of this compilation of classic magazine covers. Up until a few years ago I had many of these magazines in my collection which grew beyond my ability to house it properly. Sadly I no longer haver them in my possession, but this article brings back many fond memories of reading far into the night with one of these at hand. Thanks Shaun. Click ...

Super Mario World Explores Quantum Physics 2008-02-07 15:19:00 ahuh...I hear you say...and Paul has finally become rubber room material. And to be quite frank, when I first watched this video I was confused as all get out. But then I got it...quantum multiple universes. Every action has an infinite amount of possibilities. Here, the explanation or better, the demonstration is taken in a funny and unusual direction. As the article states: What you're ...

Firefly Novel from Steven Brust! 2008-02-07 14:33:00 Hey, I just read over on the IO9 blog that writer Steven Brust, best known for his fantasy/scifi Dragaeran series, has done something that should warm all the fans of Josh Weadon's Firefly hearts. Brust has written a free ebook set in the Firefly universe. And by free I mean Creative Commons free. Down load it, copy it, distribute it, as long as it's NFP, knock yourself out! IO9 ...

Actor Barry Morse RIP 2008-02-06 15:58:00 Actor Barry Morse, who played a detective in 1960s TV series The Fugitive, but better known to Sci-Fi fans as Professor Victor Bergman in 1970s science fiction series Space 1999 has died, his son said Tuesday. He was 89. For those of you that don't remember space 1999, the series took place on a wayward Luna which had been flung into deep space after an explosive mishap disrupted its' orbit. ...

Behind the Cybernetics with the Next Terminator Generation 2008-02-06 15:16:00 Just in case you felt there was something missing in your knowledge of Terminator models and developments since the advent of Summer Glau on The Sarah Connor's Chronicles, the good folks over at IO9 has put together an exhaustive study of the big bad meanies. Some of the models and model descriptions never made it out of the cutting room, so be prepared to be informed! ...

Thane Heins' Perepiteia device 2008-02-06 14:28:00 I will be the first to admit that I am not the brainiest person going, however I think I have a basic grasp of physics and conservation of energy as well as a working knowledge of thermodynamics. So when someones asks what happens when you put an electrical load on an engine or generator, I have to say that the load is 180 degrees in opposition so the net effect of the load is to slow the whole ...

Giant Robots Attack Suburbia 2008-02-05 16:29:00 As John over at Sci-Fi Scanner puts it....I prefer those old types of robots, stupidly clunking around and stealing our women when that strange human emotion called "love" somehow grips their servo-controlled heart. It's just hard not to love things so big and stupid. Here is a short film by director Ryan Nagata who uses small wind up automata and a technique called force perspective. It's an ...

Flash Gordon: From Ludicrous to Almost Good 2008-02-05 16:13:00 Mark Wilson over at the Sci-fi fantasy blog on About writes that he feels that Sci-fi channel's Flash Gordon has improved since is totally asinine opener to as he puts it "almost good" and one of the most improved shows. He writes a good article and its well worth checking out.....but Mark....really..... believe me, it isn't the quality of the show that's coming up right now..... No the ...

Escape Velocity takes off. 2008-02-02 01:41:00 ESCAPE VELOCITY Volume 1 Number 1 The Magazine of Science Fact and Fiction. Published by Adventure Books of Seattle Co-managing editors Geoff Nelder of Great Britain and Robert Blevins bringing together an excellent collection of 20 stories, 1 poem, 9 feature articles, and loads of photographs and drawings into a 9"x14" softcover volume. Only 4 typos in the whole 165 pages? Let's take a brief ...

Kate Moss - Cyborg? 2008-02-02 00:20:00 Found this on IO9 - really doesn't need much explanation.. But as one commenter on the photo wrote... 'A robot that runs on blow' Got to admit, it does explain a whole lot of weirdness! click pic to enlarge... ...

Scientists discover way to reverse loss of memory 2008-02-01 15:38:00 Wow, talk about a slam dunk! Shaun Saunders comes up with this fascinating and at the same time unsettling article from "The Independant" dealing with a startling breakthrough in how memory works. Scientists performing experimental brain surgery on a man aged 50 have stumbled across a mechanism that could unlock how memory works. The accidental breakthrough came during an experiment originally ...