What is the tone that a black hole makes when it sings? It's a sound so low that it will send chills up your spine. The tone, a B flat 57 octaves lower than middle C, which is 256 Hertz. Sounds as low as the black hole singing are detected as pressure waves, rather than as sounds.
For those of you on the east coast getting ready to be slammed by this Hurricane take a look at how big she is. Luckily last reports had the storm down to a Category Three but no matter what this…
Start-up MagiQ Technologies, from Somerville, Massachusetts, has released the first commercial implementation of quantum cryptography, the much-heralded solution to the perfect encryption cipher. Theoretically, encryption ciphers created using quantum physics are unbreakable.
Must everything eventually be available for free on the Internet? Steve Lohr argues that all public digital data will eventually be free on the Internet, because it's too difficult to protect the intellectual property (IP) rights of the authors. However, making all creative work freely available disregards our resonsiblity to raise a well-intentioned and civil next generation.
All of us should be worried about Global Warming. As I travel around the world I see the effects of third world nations destroying the land around them. Many environmentalist complain that the United States is not doing enough. I…
Well there is another big ass rock headed our way doom sayers will be squirming in there seats until scientist can figure out how close it will come. Odds are about 1 in 909,000 so I wonder if Vegas will…
We got a lot of bang for our buck when Nasa aimed Hubble at Mars during it’s close approach and captured some of the most amazing pictures to date. [HubbleSite] Full resolution closest approach apex shot [MARS]