This funny looking can with the tower on top was America’s first ride into space. Wasn’t very big. Didn’t have a lot of electronics. Not so many… Read the rest “Science Art: Mercury Spacecraft, by McDonnell/NASA”
I’ve just been reading TWO do-it-yourself space missions. Paul M. Davis, on Sharable.com, reports on a Danish project to construct a two-man space capsule:
… Read the rest “From your back yard to outer space. (With you on board!)”Kristian von Bengtson
On the BBC, a CERN physicist just dramatically announced that they’ve found the Higgs boson… maybe:
… Read the rest “Did they just find the God Particle?”The two teams of scientists work independently, using two separate detectors
Because sometimes scuttling just isn’t enough. Wired gets up close and personal with the cockroach that, like its cricket cousins, jumps where it needs to go – and then some… Read the rest “Leaping cockroaches!”
Ars Technica looks at the defense industry of tomorrow, when secure factories are replaced by crowds of tinkerers:
… Read the rest “DARPA’s open factory.”[T]he agency’s Adaptive Vehicle Make project may reinvent manufacturing
Physorg hearkens to the growing thunder of massive, woolly feet as Japanese and Russian researchers declare they’re one step closer to bringing mammoths back:
… Read the rest “Closer to a cloned mammoth.”Teams from the Sakha
Nature reveals why the yeti crab will never go hungry. It grows methane-based bacterial gardens on its own claws:
… Read the rest “Crab grows garden on its claws”The yeti crab — so-called because of the hair-like bristles that cover its
This wasn’t a machine for giving new students tests. It was a machine for testing how strong materials were.
My understanding is that no new students were ever tested… Read the rest “Science Art: Testing Machine, from The New Students’ Reference Work, 1914.”
No, really. PopSci has more info on the Air Force’s new flying intelligence hub – an airship that uses lasers as fiber-optic cables:
… Read the rest “Laser zeppelins. You know, for spies.”…DARPA will outfit the Blue Devil
New Scientist reports on one space-happy eBay seller who’s got some explaining to do:
… Read the rest “Not your rocket!”In a recent report, NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) described how in July, it
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