Space is typically thought of as a very quiet place. But one team of astronomers has found a strange cosmic noise that booms six times louder than expected. The roar is from the distant cosmos. Nobody knows what causes it.

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The first stars ever to grace the cosmos with light were brutish monsters, so the story believed by most astronomers goes, lumbering clouds of hydrogen and helium hundreds of times more massive than the Sun.

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Why would electrical currents, radio waves, tv waves, microwaves, etc *not* affect our nervous systems? What happens to the delicate and vulnerable fetus as a pregnant mother sits in front of a microwave? Could it be that the nervous systems of our unborn children are literally b …

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(PopSci.com) -- Last winter, inventor John Kanzius was already attempting one seemingly impossible feat -- building a machine to cure cancer with radio waves -- when his device inadvertently succeeded in another: He made saltwater catch fire.

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When doctors told John Kanzius he had nine months to live, he quietly thanked God for his blessings and prepared to die.

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Astronomers are scrambling to understand what caused a fleeting but extremely powerful burst of radio waves that originated beyond the Milky Way. Initial suspects include the merger of two dense stellar corpses called neutron stars and the complete evaporation of a black hole.

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An inventor creates a way to ignite saltwater, possibly unlocking a new type of fuel - all by accident, while looking for a cure for cancer involving radio waves. This stuff is just so cool.

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The Huygens Atmosphere Structure Instrument (HASI) scored a first in 2005 by measuring the electrical conductivity of Titan's atmosphere.

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