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Tesla coils take on Lady Gaga

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an amazing display of lights and sounds, the Open Spark Project and the Tesla Orchestra, formed from researchers at Case Western Reserve University, have taken Tesla coils to a whole new level. Their new Tesla Orchestra uses Tesla coils to covert music into an amazing display of lightning and sound.

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Dinosaur Footprints Threatened by Natural Gas Project

By James Mitchell Crow of Nature magazine Fossilized dinosaur tracks that dot a remote 80-kilometre stretch of Western Australia's coastline are under threat from a proposed natural gas facility, say paleontologists. The tracks were made by multiple species of sauropod, theropod and ornithopod dinosaurs as they walked across mud flats around 130 million years ago.

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Wolves Lose Out to Politics, Removed from Endangered Species List

In an abbreviated, terse press conference on Wednesday, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) will propose removing gray wolves ( Canis lupus ) from the endangered species list in the northern Rockies and the western Great Lakes. [More]

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How Does a Floating Plastic Duckie End Up Where It Does?

In Moby Duck , Donovan Hohn tracks the fate of 28,000 plastic bath toys (“rubber” ducks, frogs, turtles and beavers) across the Northwest Coast to their origins in China and even through the North West Passage. But how did these bath toys come to be spread on the shores of Alaska, Washington, Hawaii and Russia? On January 10th 1992, the Ever Laurel, a large container cargo ship, was caught in a storm in the North Pacific with severe waves rolling her from side to side.

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Anouska Hempel

Signature: Hempel—an actress-turned-hotelier/designer—is known for her architectural approach to interiors, as well as a ravishing sense of theatricality.

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