blamoscience:

Researchers have cleverly devised a way to make paper that is waterproof, bacterial resistant, and magnetic. By wrapping certain nanoparticles around the fibers of the paper, it’s properties can be changed. The researchers point to usi…

thenewenlightenmentage:

Repulsive Gravity as an Alternative to Dark Energy (Part 1)
The Local Sheet, which includes the Local Galactic Group and other nearby galaxies, has a peculiar velocity that can theoretically be explained by the repulsive gravit…

cwnl:

1998 Leonid Fireball
This Leonid fireball, photographed through light clouds, eerily flashed across the skies of Monteromano, Italy on November 17, 1998.
Credit & Copyright: Lorenzo Lovato

Scientists on trial in Italy over failing to predict an earthquake (which is impossible):
This…

Designboom caught Vanni Oddera’s custom KTM 250 motorbike at the 2009 EICMA motor show in Milan, Italy. KTM makes beautiful bikes.