Nothing like a rap song to teach you everything you wanted to know about the Large Hadron Collider, eh? This is a great geeky video.

A collection of spidery filaments reaches outward from the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1275 as if they were a living cell branching toward neurons. These tendrils have puzzled scientists for a while because they normally would have collapsed under the pressure of the surrounding gas.

Until now, these tendrils looked solid, but with new Hubble photos allowing the big brains taking a closer look, these supposedly thick tendrils are actually made up of many very thin ‘threads’.

This is covered in National Geographic & Register. The pic on Register is even more interesting, it truly looks more like the Spaghetti Monster.

From The Future of Things (w/ pics!):

Researchers at the Donald Lab at Duke University have built miniature robots, only a few microns tall, capable of acting in concert to achieve collaborative tasks. This ability was recently demonstrated by orchestrating a dance to a Strauss Waltz between two of the spatula-shaped constructs. The group has tied as many as five robots together under a single universal control, the most complex system of untethered microscopic robots ever created.

Nothing can travel faster than light, right? Physicists appear to have accomplished it though by entangling two photons at a quantum level, then sending them down two separate fiber cables 18 miles away and found they were sharing state information 100,000 times faster than the speed of light.

Nature has the details.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of a nebula near star cluster NGC 2074 on Aug. 10, 2008, the day before the observatory completed its 100,00th orbit of Earth.

The pic links to larger original, read more about this event at NASA.