Quantum dots are of great interest to those working on new medical and biological technologies. The trouble is that most of them so far have been made of potentially toxic materials. Carbon quantum dots, however, are much safer for the human body, and share all the other useful properties, like luminescence when exposed to light, that make them a potential boon for medical science.

You may think of yourself as an omnivore, but it’s really the bacterial colonies in your mouth and gut that do the eating. In fact, new studies suggest human genetic material is only a small portion of the total genetic material in you, the rest being microbial. Yep, you’re as much a symbiont as the next nature program freak show.

The Unstabalizer sounds like a great way to separate drunk people from their money. It’s a concept application for bars that sets the price of beverages based on demand — the more people buying martinis, the more expensive they are and the cheaper the neglected margarita.

The Space Fellowship reports that a Russian Dnepr rocket will launch a 1/3 scale prototype of the Bigelow inflatable space station this June 16th.

Texas is going to hook up a bunch of webcams on its border with Mexico and give Internet voyeurs a toll free phone number to call to report people sneaking across. If I were a coyote, I’d pay someone to flood the phone line with false reports when I wanted to cross.