With the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in French) earlier this week, it’s about time you learned a little bit more about particle physics, isn’t it? Before you go celebrating with a bottle of champagne, in the style of physicists currently celebrating all over the globe, here’s […]
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We Welcome Our New Robot Lifeguard, E.M.I.L.Y.
It’s a toasty summer day. You finally managed to slip away to have some fun on the water with friends and family. As you float, basking in the sun, something suddenly goes wrong and you find yourself struggling to swim. Just as you’re about to go under, something appears beside you to offer assistance. You […]
From Gas To Gas, Your Waste Could Become The World’s Fuel
Reuters provided this story late last week about one scientist in St. Louis who is coming up with a way to turn feces into fuel. This could be a huge breakthrough, both in finding a sustainable, renewable alternative fuel and in dealing with the problem of human waste as Earth’s population continues to spiral out […]
Kodak’s Secret Nuclear Reactor
If a company in your town had their own nuclear reactor full of uranium, you’d think it would be under constant guard and well known by residents, right? It turns out the Eastman Kodak company kept just such a reactor a secret for over 30 years in Rochester, New York. Its existence was revealed only […]
NASA, Let’s Give It Another Shot
I’m sorry I dumped you for a Virgin. They seemed so exciting at the time, but now I know the truth. I need a more experienced partner. Since we broke up, I’ve done a lot of thinking. I realize now that I focused on all the negative things, and I ignored all the positive contributions […]
Holy Blanking Blank! Techcitment Appears On The Colbert Report
Last night, Techcitement received a nod from The Colbert Report — winner of multiple Emmys, two Peabody awards, a special recognition by the GLAAD Media awards, and current home to Captain America’s shield — for its article bout male birth control by Jon Clinkenbeard. During a segment called “Cheating Death with Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, […]
Come Alive With Music And Memory’s iPod Program
Director Michael Rossato-Bennett of Ximotion Media has announced the release of a fascinating new documentary Alive Inside next week in New York. Alive Inside investigates these questions and the power music has to awaken deeply locked memories. The film follows Dan Cohen, a social worker, who decides on a whim to bring iPods to a […]
Top Five Robots Out to Murder You
Let’s get this out of the way early: robots are creepy. Robotics, as a field, is creepy. An entire branch of science dedicated to building increasingly autonomous constructs that are smarter, faster, and stronger than the very creators that have forced them into servitude? Sounds like a great idea! Clearly, humanity’s only chance of survival […]
Could This Male Contraceptive Pill Make A Vas Deferens In The Fight Against HIV?
First of all, I won’t apologize for the pun in the title. Secondly, it seems my first male contraceptive article stirred up a lot of controversy about the hypothetical anti-HIV properties of RISUG (shared from a journal named, appropriately, Medical Hypotheses). After speaking with the makers of the U.S. version, they mentioned that although this […]
Human Becomes Walking Computer Virus
British researcher Mark Gasson became the first person to infect himself with a computer virus and spread the infection to a machine, in the name of science. To be fair, this isn’t a case of human flesh actually contracting a virus made of software code. The Senior Research Fellow at the University of Reading pulled […]