‘Mach c’? Scientists observe sound traveling faster than the speed of light

For the first time, scientists have experimentally demonstrated that sound pulses can travel at velocities faster than the speed of light, c. William Robertson’s team from Middle Tennessee State University also showed that the group velocity of sound waves can become infinite, and even negative.

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The 7 hidden pages within your Firefox browser

Have fun browsing through your browser’s internal features.

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What is the origin of zero?

Ever wonder how did we indicated nothingness before zero? Here is a brief overview behind the history of 0.

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Stephen Colbert Helps Explain the Whole AT&T Thing

AT&T just bought Cingular? Cingular was already owned by AT&T? Bell South owns who?! Let Stephen Colbert help you figure this out!

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New ‘Hobbit’ Galaxies Discovered Around Milky Way

A recent sky survey has turned up eight new members in our Local Group of galaxies, including a new class of ultra-faint “hobbit” galaxies and what might be the smallest galaxy ever discovered.

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500 Gallons Of Water A Day From Thin Air

The water-harvesting technology was originally the brainchild of the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which sought ways to ensure sustainable water supplies for U.S. combat troops deployed in arid regions like Iraq.

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Firefox 3 Alpha 1

Project code name “Gran Paradiso”, is the version 3 of the popular mozilla browser Firefox 3. The new generation of the Firefox browser introduces several new features which can be tested in the first alpha

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Halo 3 gets destructible environment objects

“In Halo 2, if you shoot (our admittedly very sparse) decorators with a rocket, they just sit there, glibly ignoring the explosion. Our new decorators are actually destructible.”

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Picture of AT&T’s Monster “Global Network Operations Center”

This is picture of AT&T Headquarters Network Monitoring room. It features 144 screens monitoring all of AT&T’s voice and data lines worldwide.

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Chandra Discovers Light Echo from the Milky Way’s Black Hole

Like cold case investigators, astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to uncover evidence of a powerful outburst from the giant black hole at the Milky Way’s center. Astronomers believe a mass equivalent to the planet Mercury was devoured by the black hole about 50 years earlier, causing an X-ray outburst

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