Popular Science News | Contacting Aliens a Waste of Time

Popular Science News – Contacting Aliens a Waste of Time. The search for extra terrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been dubbed not only a waste of time but potentially dangerous.

Contacting aliens is thought to be a waste of time because if they are in advance of us then they would have little trouble finding […]

Popular Science News | UK’s Painting Collection Online

Popular Science News – UK’s Collection of 211,861 paintings have gone online on the BBC Website. For example, being a fan of JMW Turner, I searched for his paintings and was rewarded with a slideshow of 392 paintings, each of which can be individually viewed in fairly high detail.

The UK is the first […]

Popular Science News | Blue Petroleum

Popular Science News – Blue Petroleum is fuel made from algae. A small company in Alicante, Spain, Bio Fuel Systems (BFS), is making fuel using the carbon dioxide emitted by a nearby cement factory. BFS converts two tons of CO2 into a barrel of fuel. One of the things that is exciting about this […]