February 2009 Archives

US global weapon mongers Lockheed have come up with a way to turn US troops into supersoldiers.

Its Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC) exoskeleton can be donned by infantry to give them the power to carry loads up to 200 pounds with little effort.

Ancient fish could have invented switching off the lights and putting on some Barry White.

Scientists have come across a fossilised fish which they think was one of the earliest vertebrates to reproduce sexually.

With all the talk about space launches going wrong (and my blog about exploding rockets which I put together before this week's $273m NASA mishap), let's focus on when it does go right.

This spectacular image is of a shuttle launch taken by astronaut John W Young while flying aboard NASA's Shuttle Training Aircraft.

A team of scientists have successfully mapped a huge mountain range buried in the Antarctic.

It's almost impossible to visualise the Gamburtsevs, which match the Alps in scale but are buried 4km below the ice.

The days of dentures and fillings could be over.

Scientists say they have a way of growing human teeth in the lab.

The prospect of marmalade-powered rockets just reminds us how, errr, tricky it is to fire something up into orbit.

From the birth of man we have looked into the heavens... ah, forget it. Just look at these explosions!

I'm trying to take advantage of social networking to spread the word of the Weird Science blog.

Now I'm not very good at networking and I'm not at all social, so I've been busy over the past week or so trying to get my head round all this internet malarky.

I don't believe in UFOs.

Well, let me rephrase that. I don't believe strange lights seen in the sky are little green men who have travelled light years to probe random truck drivers.

We've been a bit obsessed with the Moon and the Sun over the past week here at Weird Science, but I thought this was still worth attention.

You're looking at the Earth moving in front of the Sun as seen from the Moon.

Crazy is as crazy does. Charles Claude Guthrie is a proper loon of the highest order.

Charlie was an American physiologist in the early 1900s and made such advances that you would wonder why he wasn't awarded the Nobel Prize.