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Cosmic Log - Jul 29, 2008
Martin Jetpack The Martin Jetpack lifts a test pilot into the air. One of the classic dreams of aviation is to rise into the air with a flying machine strapped to your back. The jetpack dream is so iconic that it has …
Cosmic Log - Jul 16, 2008
The Joker may be the scene-stealer in "The Dark Knight," but it's still Batman who has all the gadgets. As the saga continues, some of the Caped Crusader's once-outlandish technologies are looking more and more …
Cosmic Log - Jul 11, 2008
One year after a famous man-vs.-machine poker tournament, the machine finally won out over a team of living, breathing poker professionals. The University of Alberta's Polaris poker-playing software came from behind …
Also tagged: daily dose
Cosmic Log - Jul 9, 2008
Jacob Vinther / Yale These images compare structures in a striped fossil feather (left side) and a woodpecker feather (right side). Under the scanning electron microscope there are melanosomes in the dark but not the …
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Cosmic Log - Jul 7, 2008
AFP - Getty Images A foot-wide stone tablet is said to bear Jewish messianic messages from the first century B.C. Scriptural scholars are abuzz over a stone tablet that is said to bear previously unknown prophecies …
Also tagged: religion
Cosmic Log - Jul 3, 2008
Science Debate 2008 couldn't quite pull off a political debate on science and technology issues during the presidential primary season, but the big contest is still ahead of us. This week, the effort's organizers laid …
Cosmic Log - Jul 2, 2008
CERN A simulation shows the pattern of particles that scientists think could be produced by a micro black hole. What good is a microscopic black hole, and why would you make one on Earth? Can a black hole ever really …
Cosmic Log - Jul 1, 2008
N. Moeller / Tell Edfu Project This view of the excavation at Tell Edfu shows superimposed settlement layers. Some of the grain silos from Egypt's 17th Dynasty were covered by a thick layer of ash. At a later date …
Cosmic Log - Jun 26, 2008
Alex Wong / Getty Images file Peter Diamandis says the X Prize Foundation is going global. The X Prize Foundation successfully pulled off a $10 million contest for the first privately developed spaceship and …
Cosmic Log - Jun 25, 2008
Space.com An artist's conception shows a massive black hole in action. If big black holes are so scary, why do scientists think it's not a problem to be around teeny-tiny black holes? Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse …