X-rays

Science

Scientists Exploit Quantum Interference To Turn Iron Sheets Invisible To X-Ray

6:00PM Yesterday | Andrew Tarantola

We just reported a few weeks ago on the successful masking of objects from microwaves. Now a research team from Hamburg, Germany has figured out how to make iron (57Fe) transparent to X-rays — and presumably Superman. More »


Science

World’s Fastest Movie Shot At A Quadrillion FPS

9:00PM January 27, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

The Hobbit being shot at 48fps? Pathetic. MIT’s trillion fps camera? Pokey at best. Just wait until you see the video a team of German researchers have created. It’s two frames long, lasts just 50 femtoseconds, and doesn’t star Nic Cage. More »


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Scientists Create Star Matter In California

2:00AM January 27, 2012 | Jesus Diaz

You’re looking at the heart of the most powerful X-Ray laser machine ever created by humans, billions of times stronger than anything before it. It’s the Linac Coherent Light Source and it has created something that nobody has made before in this planet: the kind of matter that you can only find in the heart of stars and giant planets. More »


News

This Guy Didn’t Know He Shot Himself In The Head With A Nail Gun

1:00AM January 23, 2012 | Casey Chan

Dante Autullo is a tough guy. He’s also, according to his wife, a very accident-prone guy. So when he accidentally hit his head with a nail gun and only saw a scratch, he didn’t think anything of it… EVEN THOUGH HE HAD A FREAKING NAIL LODGED IN HIS BRAIN. More »


Geek Out

Buzz Lightyear Should Not Be Inside Your Butt

1:23AM November 19, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Somewhere, someone knows how this Buzz Lightyear action figure wound up in an anus. It could be a long story. It could be a short story. Maybe there’s no real story at all. But there is this X-ray. More »


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TSA Could Skip Independent Backscatter Tests

1:40AM November 18, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Backscatter X-ray machines may or may not be carcinogenic. The European Union isn’t taking any chances, but the TSA is so confident in their safety that it likely won’t conduct the additional tests it promised the US Senate. More »


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EU Bans Airport X-Ray Machines

1:51AM November 17, 2011 | Sam Biddle

“Backscatter” X-ray machines, which bombard your body with radiation at the airport, are a subject of controversy in the US. Not in Europe, Mother Jones reports — the machines are now banned throughout the entire EU over cancer risks. Good. More »


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Idiot Thief Who Swallowed A $US16,000 Diamond Caught On X-Ray

11:13PM September 15, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

Let’s say you steal a $US16,000 diamond and get caught. Tough noogies I guess, but what’re you gonna do? Oh, swallow it in plain sight of the cop that’s arresting you? No no, that can’t be right. And yet! More »


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Man Survives Being Impaled Through Eye Socket With Pruning Shears

8:20AM August 31, 2011 | Casey Chan

Leroy Leutscher, an 86-year-old man from Arizona, was out on his yard when he dropped his pruning shears. As he reached down to grab them, he slipped and fell, landing face down on the handle. The handle went through his eye socket and down into his neck. Amazingly, he’s OK. More »


Geek Out

X-Ray Shows Dog Ate $US10,000 Worth Of Diamonds

11:02PM August 25, 2011 | Casey Chan

Turns out, carbon, which diamonds are made of, don’t actually show up in X-rays. They do, however, come up as blank spots and that’s how jewellery shop owner Chuck Roberts found out his dog, Honey Bun, had eaten his diamonds. More »