A Dr. Franklin Felber has reportedly come up with a solution for Einstein’s gravitational field equation that allows for objects travelling close to the speed of light, something no other solution to date has been able to do. Essentially, it provides a way to accelerate a spacecraft to a “good fraction” of the speed of light, a feat that would ordinarily require the equivalent force of 30 billion tons of TNT, with a relatively small expense of energy.

Improving greatly upon current technology, scientists have developed a new version of the cochlear implant that allows some deaf patients to regain partial hearing. The major improvements are in ease of implantation and the quality of the sound reproduction, the latter of which is a real big deal since the older model implant makes just about everything sound like the torturebot from Star Wars: A New Hope.

An obvious but easily overlooked side effect of the massive increase in surveillance from the Bush administration is a corresponding increase in the costs to carriers of supporting that surveillance.

Drug dealers in Colombia pretty much redefined the definition of heinous by smuggling liquid heroin inside puppies.

The web was built for sites like Oyez, where you can download .mp3s of all the arguments made in the Supreme Court in the year 2004 (and lots more).