20 countries with the most debt

This review of the 20 countries with the most debt did surprise me. [Image from the linked Edmonton Journal story.]

Faster than light particles!

Yikes! There is a claim that CERN scientists have measured particles going faster than the speed of light! If so, this would invalidate Einsteinian physics. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds.

I like this response, reported in the story about this at the journal Science's website:

"Chang Kee Jung, a neutrino physicist at Stony Brook University in New York, says he'd wager that the result is the product of a systematic error. 'I wouldn't bet my wife and kids because they'd get mad,' he says. 'But I'd bet my house.'"

Robotic Pong

Cool, but unfortunately these are still being controlled by humans for now.

The Impossible Hamster

Glass of the future

Super Mario mushroom from a radish

Luck of the draw

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Gamers make scientific breakthrough!

The protein-folding game FoldIt has made a major scientific break-through: gamers figured out the structure of a protein involved in AIDS.

Smallest Electrical Motor Ever Created (to date)

We are one step closer to making nanobots with the recent advance to a motor the size of a single molecule. Via Boing Boing.

M of the M: September

Mario of the Month for September. Found: here.