Burbank, CA - A team of scientists working for the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works plant has unveiled a prototype spacecraft which they claim can travel faster than light. picked by gratheo 1 year ago

Dutch researchers are trying to grow pork meat in a laboratory with the goal of feeding millions without the need to raise and slaughter animals. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Researchers at St. Andrews University, Scotland, claim to have found a way to simulate an event horizon of a black hole - not through a new cosmic observation technique, and not by a high powered supercomputer… but in the laboratory. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

The Dawn mission to the asteroid belt passed a critical test last weekend, exercising its gentle, yet reliable, ion-propulsion system to accelerate its mission to two destinations during an eight-year voyage through our solar system. picked by DrNothing 11 months ago

Click on the previous/next arrows for more great pics of other abandoned buildings. picked by gnikgnok 1 year ago

The enigma began last year when a plain envelope with no return address arrived at the world-famous physics laboratory outside Chicago, addressed simply to "Fermilab." picked by vexingmodstwo 2 months ago

An '86 Buick Regal stripped of its engine, suspension, transmission and electrical system and outfitted with 4 independent pedal and gear mechanisms. On it's maiden run, police stop it and deem it unsafe. See video here. picked by misswinkle 9 months ago

National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratory of United States, owns the Z Machine f Sandia's, which is capable to produce a temperature higher than Sun's. Recently has successfully obtained ice from water in just a few nanoseconds. picked by Johnny21J 1 year ago

Blimps steered by artificial muscles may one day swim through the air like fish, suggest recent flight tests. The blimps would be much quieter than those steered by traditional blimp propellers, making them ideal for observing wildlife. picked by BrownTrout 1 year ago

Democracy in action...Not exactly what the fathers of the country had in mind but your give your constitiutional right a workout by voting on the freakiest lab animals. picked by lemon711 1 year ago

Your next laptop could have a continuous power battery that lasts for 30 years without a single recharge thanks to work being funded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. The breakthrough betavoltaic power cells are constructed from semiconductors and use radioisotopes as the energy source. As the radioactive material decays it emits beta particles that transform into electric power capable o... read full post picked by 86Apex 11 months ago

At a Johns Hopkins Laboratory, 36 men and women were given psychedelic mushrooms as part of a research experiment. The study found the shrooms to positively affect a person's life even up to 14months after taking the drug. picked by Rambo2020 2 months ago

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, ch... read full post picked by wags273 8 months ago

Jellyfish with up to a dozen heads have been created in the laboratory by carefully monkeying with a few genes. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Students from OSU's Radiation Physics Laboratory built and successfully launched a cosmic radiation detector this summer that, carried by a helium-filled balloon, reached 104,000 feet in altitude. The detector recorded radiation levels at the varying altitudes -- information that will be used by NASA to develop instrumentation for space flight. picked by Dork 4 weeks ago

UCLA and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have formed a research institute to better understand and predict regional environmental and climate change and support future space missions. picked by tlovesd 2 years ago

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is sending a spacecraft closer to the sun than any probe has ever gone – and what it finds could revolutionize what we know about our star and the solar wind that influences everything in our solar system. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Seeing proteins in their natural environment and interactions inside cells has been a longstanding goal. Using an advanced microscopy technique called cryo-electron tomography, researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] have visualised proteins responsible for cell-cell contacts for the first time. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Workers call the latest find an "octosquid." It has the body of a squid and the tentacles of an octopus. It appears that the creature was sucked up in a deep seawater pipeline at the Natural Energy Laboratory Hawaii Authority at Keahole on the Big Island. picked by DrNothing 1 year ago

Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples. picked by AfroMosHi 1 month ago