Science Art: Mercury Spacecraft, by McDonnell/NASA
Click to embiggen vastly This funny looking can with the tower on top was America’s first ride into space. Wasn’t very big. Didn’t have a […]
Month: December 2011
From your back yard to outer space. (With you on board!)
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: Kristian […]
Did they just find the God Particle?
On the BBC, a CERN physicist just dramatically announced that they’ve found the Higgs boson… maybe: The two teams of scientists work independently, using two […]
Leaping cockroaches!
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 […]
DARPA’s open factory.
Ars Technica looks at the defense industry of tomorrow, when secure factories are replaced by crowds of tinkerers: [T]he agency’s Adaptive Vehicle Make project may […]
Closer to a cloned mammoth.
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: Teams […]
Crab grows garden on its claws
Nature reveals why the yeti crab will never go hungry. It grows methane-based bacterial gardens on its own claws: The yeti crab — so-called because […]
Science Art: Testing Machine, from The New Students’ Reference Work, 1914.
Click to embiggen This wasn’t a machine for giving new students tests. It was a machine for testing how strong materials were. My understanding is […]
Laser zeppelins. You know, for spies.
No, really. PopSci has more info on the Air Force’s new flying intelligence hub – an airship that uses lasers as fiber-optic cables: …DARPA will […]
Not your rocket!
New Scientist reports on one space-happy eBay seller who’s got some explaining to do: In a recent report, NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) described […]