Chinese officials have publicly stated that they intend to become the world’s largest producer of nuclear generated electricity by 2020. Within 8 years, they intend to produce 100 gigawatts of power putting them ahead of the United States as the world’s largest producer of nuclear power. By 2050, they intend to move even further ahead…
Category: General Science
New smell discovered – nasal equivalent of “white noise” sound
In a recent study, scientists have discovered a new smell dubbed “olfactory white” because it’s the nasal equivalent of “white noise” (which sounds like a whooshing hum). Just as white noise is a mixture of many different sound frequencies and white light is a mixture of many different wavelengths, olfactory white is a mixture of…
Chinese company set to build world’s tallest building – in only 90 days [UPDATE]
Designed by the same engineers that created the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa that currently stands 2,722 feet over Dubai, Broad Sustainable Building (BSB) will be building a 220-story building in the Chinese city of Changsha in March 2013. The 220-story Sky City building will be the world’s tallest and will be built in only…
New study indicates humans and other vertebrates evolved from common ancestor that had an additional “sixth sense”
Humans experience and interact with the world around them using five senses whereas some vertebrates, such as sharks, rays, catfish, sturgeons, and salamanders, utilize an extra sixth sense – they can detect weak electrical fields and use this information to detect prey, sense danger, communicate, and orient themselves in their environment. A new study published…
Who told me to get out of the pool? Holy crap – it was the whale talking!
Lost in the shuffle, the news that a white beluga whale named “NOC” could speak rudimentary English was never published until colleagues encouraged Sam Ridgway, of the National Marine Mammal Foundation, to publish the news that many are not aware of – whales can mimic human speech just like a parrot. A new paper in…
Researchers propose new theory of how ball lightning is created and why it occurs where it does
Small, grapefruit-sized balls of intensely glowing light, hovering or moving silently through the air, ball lightning lasts from a few seconds to a few minutes. They are extremely rare, less than 5% of the population have seen the phenomenon – occasionally reported, but never photographed. Now researchers from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization…
Monster tree washes ashore near Washington State’s Olympic National Park [PICTURE]
Giant eyeball washes up on Florida beach [UPDATE]
How to handle being charged by a 400 pound gorilla
Gorillas are considered to be highly intelligent. People are considered to be highly intelligent too – at least most of them are. In this video, note how the man handles being charged by a 400lb gorilla – by standing his ground and not flinching (his big balls probably keep him anchored pretty well too).
So faster-than-light travel may be possible after all
Although Einstein’s theories suggest that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, two scientists have extended his equations to show what would happen if faster-than-light travel were possible. In effect, they propose that the universe is divided into two worlds – one where everything moves slower than the speed of light and the…








