Ananova:

Dog-size rats take over power station
Rats the size of dogs which can even eat through concrete are threatening to plunge parts of Montenegro into darkness.
Workers at a hydroelectric power station on the River Piva say they are too scared to tackle rodents who are also gnawing their way through cables.
One worker told the local daily […]

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WiiBot: How to build a sword-wielding, tennis-playing, WiiMote-controlled, friendly robot
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Brian and I with the robot. This has got to be the most MySpace-looking robot pic ever. I’m pretty sure this robot listens to Dashboard Confessional. […]

Okay, there’s a giant delay in the controls and it didn’t actually do that much but […]

Deep Impact succeeds, baby!
See, this is awesome science:

Find a giant ice-rock.
Hit it with a rocket.
Have a camcorder handy.

Geek jubilation.

Pharyngula:

[…] As it turns out, though, the embryos are attuned to respond only to a range of vibrations characteristic of a snake attack—the investigator recorded the range of movements under various conditions with an accelerometer and played those vibrations back to clutches of eggs, and found that the long, low frequency vibrations of a snake […]

I am incredibly aroused:
Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its DatabaseBy JOHN MARKOFF and EDWARD WYATT
Google, the operator of the world’s most popular Internet search service, plans to announce an agreement today with some of the nation’s leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting their holdings into digital files that would be freely […]

ZOMBIE JACKETS OF HUMAN FLESH!
Jacket Grows From Living Tissue By Lakshmi Sandhana02:00 AM Oct. 12, 2004 PT
Fancy a partially alive jacket, possibly grown out of your own skin? In reality, it may not be that far away.
Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr at the Tissue Culture & Art Project are attempting to grow a semi-living jacket […]

Sacramento Bee, 6/1/04:
WASHINGTON - Test subjects can’t see the invisible beam from the Pentagon’s new, Star Trek-like weapon, but no one has withstood the pain it produces for more than three seconds.People who volunteered to stand in front of the directed energy beam say they felt as if they were on fire. When they stepped […]

Knoxnews.com: *
Officials at the Y-12 National Security Complex are so pleased with last fall’s security experiment - using radioactive waste as an antiterrorist barrier - they may expand the effort. […]
These guys are using radioactive materials as a fence. No, seriously. They’re not dumb, they’re thinking outside the box!
Plus, it’s not just a […]

Honolulu Advertiser:
It’s designed to be RoboMarine — technically the Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle — and proponents say it would have come in handy in trouble spots ranging from Somalia, Kosovo and Bosnia to Afghanistan and Iraq.
As unmanned aerial vehicles like the Predator continue to chalk up successes, with more than 10 UAVs utilized in […]

Alpine Meadows and Mammoth Mountain
received the artillery pieces on loan from the Army and began using them last year to fire rounds into mountainsides and knock snow loose. […]“It was designed to kill people, but it’s a very valuable safety tool for us,” said Rachael Woods, a spokeswoman at Lake Tahoe’s Alpine Meadows, where […]