Man sheds green sweat

Ananova is reporting a case of a Chinese man with green sweat. No word on its validity yet.

Doctors in China admit they are baffled after a man began to perspire green sweat. Cheng Shunguo, 52, of Wuhan city, says his sweat turned green in the middle of November. “I noticed that my underwear and bed sheets were all green, and even the water in the shower,” he told the Chutian Metropolis News. Cheng says he feels no discomfort, but went to hospital because he was worried about his condition. Doctors thoroughly cleaned his armpits but it took only 10 minutes for his sweat to turn a piece of white gauze green again. They have carried out blood tests on Cheng, but found everything to be normal. “We can’t find the cause,” admitted a spokesman for the hospital which reported the case to the media in the hope of finding a solution.

See also on SciencePunk - “The Many Colours of Blood”

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Magnetic fusion reactor

Robert W. Brussard was assistant director at the Atomic Energy Commission in the 70s. He had an interesting idea for alternative to fossil fuels - “inertial electrostatic confinement”. Essentially, electrons are shot into a magnetic prison until fusion occurs:

I’ve no idea if it’s feasible, but it seems pretty neat.

December 5th, 2007

X-ray bullet-time photography

Not content with bringing you a slew of slow motion videos and visual delights, here’s something that combines both. Witness the joy of x-ray bullet-time photography* - a wondrous mashup of high-tech science and lethal weaponry. I’ve no way of verifying whether the picture below is real, but the rest look pretty kosher.

If the description is to be believed, that really is a just-fired bullet at the tip of the barrel. Superman must see this kind of stuff all the time. (link)

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