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ISS Commander Chris Hadfield shows us the fine points of manual digital hygiene in microgravity. A clean-handed astronaut is a happy astronaut. Credit: CSA

I just saw this video. If this is real, this could be life changing. The Super Supercapacitor | Brian Golden Davis from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo . THE SUPER SUPERCAPACITOR is a Finalist in the $200,000 FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition and is in the running to become the $100,000 Grand Prize Winner. It could also be named an Audience Favorite if it's among the ten that receives the most votes. If you love it, vote for it. Click on the VOTE button in the top right corner of the video player. Note that voting may not be available on all mobile platforms, and browser cookies must be enabled to vote. Ric Kaner set out to find a new way to make graphene, the thinnest and strongest material on earth. What he found was a new way to power the world. FULL CREDITS Director: Brian Golden Davis Producers: David Paul Meyer, Laura Lee, Brian Golden Davis Directors of Photography: Brian Golden Davis, David Paul Meyer Sound: David Paul Meyer Music Performed by: Falling Fall, S...

In case you didn't know. NASA recently landed the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity. It's amazing what science can do and I always love the exploration of space. I found this high resolution video of the Curiosity rover's descent to Mars taken by the MARDI descent imager. Watch. Can you believe it? We are actually looking at another planet here.

I love science and technology. Here's a new robot earthworm developed by MIT. When perfected, it has the potential applications to be use for medical science. It creep along the ground by alternately squeezing and stretching muscles along the length of their bodies, inching forward with each wave of contractions. Snails and sea cucumbers also use this mechanism, called peristalsis, to get around, and our own gastrointestinal tracts operate by a similar action, squeezing muscles along the esophagus to push food to the stomach.

Cool video showing how the moon evolved.

It was thought that you can't fold a paper more than 7 times. On December 4, 2011 seventeen St. Mark's students led by St. Mark's mathematics teacher Dr. James Tanton succeeded in setting a new paper folding record of 13 stable folds using just over 10 miles (53,000 feet) of toilet paper and the 3rd floor of MIT's famous Infinite Corridor. The St. Mark's folding team were the guests of MIT's origami club, OrigaMIT. The exercise dramatically demonstrates exponential decay as the 10 miles of paper, after 13 folds, is now about 5 feet long and 2-and-a-half feet high (with 8129 layers)

Eric Jacqmain made this solar death ray using an ordinary satellite dish and 5,800 mirrors. It pretty much melts anything.

Did they just invent anti-gravity?

Popular Science has partnered with Google to put its entire 137 year archive online for free. It includes all the original articles as well as the advertisements of the time. Check it out at http://www.popsci.com/archives .

From the Philippine Daily Inquirer . ================== NOW ON LEAVE from his post as station manager of dzMM, the AM radio station of ABS-CBN, Angelo Palmones is making the rounds of the country, talking to civic groups, students, teachers, communities, politicians, scientists, researchers, and anyone who cares to listen, about the need to instill a “consciousness about science and technology” among our people. Palmones is the president and first nominee of the party-list group Agham, the Filipino word for science, which also stands for Alyansa ng mga Grupong Haligi ng Agham at Teknolohiya para sa Mamamayan Inc. (Alliance of Groups Supporting Science and Technology for the People). Agham, says Palmones, was inspired by the rueful observations of the late Dr. Raymundo Punongbayan who was at the time head of Phivolcs or the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. Punongbayan was then in the eye of a political and media maelstrom when he revealed that the Valley Fau...

UFO? Nope, they called hold punch clouds. A “Hole Punch” cloud is a non-technical name given to a cloud formed from an aircraft dissipation hole or trail. They are also called "Punch Hole" clouds. Rather than extending as a line, Hole Punch clouds appear as a circular or oval hole in a deck or thin layer of supercooled water clouds. They are not uncommon where jet flight paths intersect altocumulus or cirrocumulus layers. What is uncommon is when they form in a perfect circle that persists for a length of time to be widely observed.

Saw this TV show and I thought I'd share it. Host Gillian Anderson shows us what scientists and researchers think transportation may be like in the future. Topics Discussed: Automotive Travel, Air Travel, Anti-Gravity, Virtual Reality, Teleportation. Host: Gillian Anderson Aired: 1997

Reading " Physics of the Impossible " by Dr. Michio Kaku got me thinking about science. I always loved science. It's usually my best subject in school. I used to dream of being an astronaut or to be an astronomer. Sadly, there wasn't much opportunity for being any of those in the Philippines. Up until my first year in high school, I had dreamed of being an astronomer or even just owning an astronomical telescope. My dream of being an astronomer was dashed when I told my Uncle about it and he told me there was no money in it. That's true in a way, since there is no money to be made in being an astronomer in the Philippines. That plus the fact the chicks dig jocks more than geeks. Anyway, my interest in astronomy waned and got interested in basketball more than planets. They're both round anyway, but with basketball, you get to enjoy it with friends while astronomy is a lonely hobby. That plus the fact that chicks dig basketball players more than geeks. Second y...