Science

In our very own Milky Way galaxy alone,  astronomers estimate there are between 200 billion and 400 billion stars. Of these, there are many that exoplanets within their solar systems. Still, what are the odds planets, more or less similar to our one, capable of supporting life, microscopic or otherwise, exist? This is the exact […]

This week, in the midst of the Consumer Electronics Show, the Detroit Auto Show, and the 219th annual meeting of…

In the age where consumer electronic are purposely built with short lived life cycles, there might seem to be no interest for manufactures to invest in technology that enhances reliability. Sophisticated military controls or aerospace on-board circuitry are a different story though from your counter toaster – the kind of applications that yearn for working electronics that can […]

Andrew Quitmeyer is a PhD student at Georgia Tech who recently devised a perfectly handy how-to video on painting ants for scientific experiments. Handy, that is, for all of you ant aficionados reading ZME Science that want to take things a bit further and selectively study your colony, maybe even add a bit of color. Yeah, […]

One of my favorite past times is filling sudoku puzzles. There’s something about this seemingly simple, yet challenging, dance of digits up and down, left and right that manages to keep me highly entertain though a perfectly balanced mixture of thrill and frustration. If you think you’re good enough to solve any kind of sudoku, […]

There’s no bigger drag on a busy Monday morning than finding your car under a heap of snow in the driveway. Taking measures and parking it under some kind shelter, if possible, would be advised if you don’t plan on driving an ice truck. Take NASA for instance, which, like every year, has routed the […]