Why hasn’t this kind of critical thinking migrated out of India to the rest of the world? Methinks these educators (seriously, watch to the end) would do well to licence out their brand of debunking to other cultures. More »
Everyone relax. While the jury may be out on abundant life on other planets we can squash this other space-related “second sun” story out of China. Our solar system has not sprouted a second sun and we are not on Tatooine. It was a mirage. More »
As recently as September scientists were perplexed about a strange, unexplained acceleration affecting the Pioneer spacecraft. Measurements didn’t match up. Heads were scratched. New physics were excited hypothesized. Let’s pump the brakes a moment, though, shall we? More »
Solid state drives (SSDs) are the inevitable future of mobile computing, but a new experiment by Tom’s Hardware is extremely disappointing. It ends up that the touted power savings of SSDs over their moving-parts-laden cousins are nonexistent. In fact, SSDs are sucking more power than conventional hard drives. How is this possible? Tom’s Hardware thinks they know.
