A genetic database is helping bust cattle rustlers in Argentina, although I suppose the introduction of cloned cattle could throw that plan for a loop.There are certain scientific ideas, like entropy and some physics formulas, that give me the heeby-jeebies because they remind me of the fever dreams I’d have when I was little, which were always about math. I also get the same feeling from the Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, and plans for a space elevator. Now, an engineer has come up with a real-life plan for how to get a 100,000-km tether up into space.For info on some of the other things that might be heading up into space in the future, this interactive graphic explains the spacecraft of the future.In the same way that naps can improve human performance, a little bit of torpor goes a long way for little marsupials.Was Stonehenge built for raves? Maybe, maybe not, but the acoustics would have been great for one, according to a British researcher.
