Who doesn’t want faster Wi-Fi? No one, that’s who. Researchers in Japan are working on a new kind of Wi-Fi that might be able to help you out in the speed department. Terahertz range, or “t-ray“ wireless transmission has reached speeds up to 20 times faster than conventional radio Wi-Fi. It also lies in a currently unregulated area of the spectrum, meaning it could be fair game for Wi-Fi use someday.

Damaged blood vessels are about as fun as they sound, and they tend to come part in parcel with other problems. Dialysis patients for example, who already have problems with their kidneys, get hit with the double whammy that dialysis is pretty rough on the blood vessels in the arm. Granted, the benefit is greater than the cost, but doing damage is never good. One possible solution to the problem would be replacing the damaged blood vessels with fresh, new ones. But how do you get those? If current research pays off, you get them by weaving them out of strips of artificially-grown human flesh. It’s as awesome as it is gory.

Though producing 3D images with an electron microscope isn’t the newest of the new, being able to display the 3D images in real time is, which is why it’s pretty neat that a Japanese research group has created an electron microscope that does just that.

Quantum computing is a big deal. Unlike cramming more and more components closer together on chips, quantum computing will increase processing power by orders of magnitude. It would forever change the face of computing as we know it. Still not hitting home? How about this: Scientists have designed a 300 atom quantum-computing crystal so powerful that in order for a conventional computer to match it, that computer would have to be the size of the known universe. Yeah.

Researchers at MIT have developed a new surface texture that, when applied to glass, produces a kind of glass that removes reflections, is free of glare, doesn’t fog, and has a surface that causes water droplets to bounce off like rubber balls, as pictured to the left and featured in a video below.

Bill Nye is something of a science rockstar, so it only makes sense that he knows how to rock out. He illustrated this talent just recently during a show being put on by Colorado band Bill Nye and the Science Guys. Nye just happened to be in the area and expressed interest in jamming with the band. The rest? Well, see for yourself.

While Twitter users mostly use the microblogging service to shoot back their thoughts on whatever they happen to be eating or marvel at the dadaist poetry of a spam bot, researchers can’t seem to get enough of the service. For them, it’s become an enormous trove of information about what people are thinking or feeling. One U.K. research group has found a strong correlation between major events and moods on Twitter, and suggests that this information could even be used to predict major events — like the riots that rocked the U.K. last summer.

If there’s one thing space nerds love to complain about, it’s the state of the NASA budget. Thankfully saved from the chopping block is the Kepler mission, which since 2009 has been searching the skies for exoplanets with remarkable success. What may surprise some is that Kepler was meant to be a 3.5 year mission to seek out strange new worlds. Thankfully, the probe’s hunt for alien worlds has now been extended until 2016.

We here at Geekosystem — and the world at large, I think — all know that Science! has to actually get done somewhere. With little more than a few college courses, and maybe a working understanding of the scientific method, it can be a little tough for us non-scientists to really wrap our heads around what it’s actually like. Ph.Diva and the Mystery Band, a clever little music video done as an advertisement for Life Technologies, does a wonderful (and catchy) job of providing a little insight. Turns out scientists are real people too, apparently.

Launching objects into orbit, much less to the Moon, requires a lot of power and huge engines. Of course, those engines can’t make it all the way up there, so we tend to just let them drop, usually into the ocean. Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos thinks this is a shame, especially when it comes to historic engines like those from the Saturn V rocket that propelled Apollo 11, the first mission to reach the Moon. That being the case, he’s devoted some of his billions of dollars to locating said engines on the floor of the Atlantic, and now he wants to devote a few more to bringing them back up. Updated content follows after the original story.