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October 21, 2015

World's thinnest glass shatters records -- by accident

It's an earth-shattering record. At just one molecule thick, researchers at Cornell and Germany's University of Ulm discovered the world's thinnest sheet of glass -- by accident.

October 21, 2015

NASA starts making plutonium again

After a 25-year hiatus, the Unites States has produced its first non-weapons grade plutonium needed to power space probes when solar energy won鈥檛 suffice.

October 21, 2015

The Radioactive Orchestra: Band uses nuclear isotopes to make music

Every second in your body, thousands of tiny isotopes are bursting with radioactive decay. And, all around you, imperceptible gamma rays explode in a brilliant but invisible lightshow. And they've just formed a live band.

October 21, 2015

Researchers convert sewer sludge to diesel alternative

Researchers at Mississippi State University have created a patented process which turns our by-products into an alternative diesel energy source.聽

October 21, 2015

New super-heavy Element 117 confirmed by scientists

Atoms of a new super-heavy element the as-yet-unnamed element 117 have reportedly been created by scientists in Germany, moving it closer to being officially recognized as part of the standard periodic table.

October 21, 2015

Swiss scientists say Arafat was poisoned with polonium

Scientists at Switzerland's Institute of Radiation Physics said Thursday they've found evidence that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was deliberately poisoned with polonium though they don't know if it ultimately killed him.

October 21, 2015

What's missing from the Nobel Prizes? Scientists weigh in

The Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the Nobel prizes more than 100 years ago, in 1895, with the following prize categories: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and peace.

October 21, 2015

2013 'Golden Goose' awards honor strange science

Politicians have their pick of strange-sounding studies when they want to call for cuts to science spending

October 21, 2015

A report about reports about reports? Yep, at this year鈥檚 Ig Nobel awards

A U.S. government agency has earned a literature prize for issuing a report about reports about reports -- and concluding that a new report ought to be prepared to sum it all up.

October 21, 2015

'The Next MacGyver' competition aims to encourage more women to pursue STEM

Back when she was growing up, Veronica Eliasson used to be rooted in front of her family鈥檚 television watching 鈥淢acGyver鈥� with her younger brother. The long-running action-adventure series followed the exploits of an American secret agent who came up with inventive solutions to difficult problems by engineering tools out of everyday things.聽 Think objects like duct tape, for instance. The show had worldwide appeal, and for the young Eliasson, whose father always told her she should become an engineer, it opened her eyes to the fact that science could be fun 鈥� and exciting.