BBC has the details on the space-agency’s successful test of a printed fuel injector:
… Read the rest “NASA 3D prints a rocket engine part.”The part is used to deliver liquid oxygen and hydrogen gas to an engine’s combustion chamber.
Laboratory Equipment spreads the word (and we’re spreading it farther) about these space scientists who’ve decided to use Kickstarter to send the first plasma-drive ship… Read the rest “The backyard plasma ships (that you can help build).”
I’m not sure whether to be in awe of this or to be totally blase. But Reuters is reporting that for the first time, an unmanned fighter jet landed on the moving deck of an aircraft carrier… Read the rest “Flying robot lands on aircraft carrier.”
Slate has printed his controversial plan to live up to the promise of gene science without the industrial agriculture downside:
… Read the rest “Frederick Kaufman wants to open-source genetically modified crops. And maybe save the planet.”The GMO story has become mired in the eco-wrecking narrative
Nature reports on a new initiative to crowdsource oceanography:
… Read the rest “Wanna help explore the ocean? You can.”Just about the first action involved in any experiment at sea is the casting overboard of a conductivity, temperature and
Laboratory Equipment recommends getting bogged down to prevent global warming, with research that shows man-made marshes can fight climate change:
… Read the rest “Make marshes, keep Earth cool.”…[S]ays Bill Mitsch, director
An animated GIF (if it’s not moving for you, click the link) showing what it looks like if you’re looking at a black hole when a galaxy passes by in the background. Or at least when… Read the rest “Science Art: Black Hole Lensing by Urbane Legend”
Slate brings psychogeography a step closer to the mainstream, highlighting software that uses word frequency to show what kinds of people are in what parts of the city:
… Read the rest “Hipster heat maps and yuppie data visualizations”Of all the data goldmines
Extreme Tech has the details on the contacts that let you see like an eagle:
… Read the rest “Telescope contact lenses are a real thing.”The center of the lens allows light to pass straight through, providing normal vision. The outside edge, however,
Nature draws an ancient lesson from America’s favorite pastime, observing how baseball pitchers reveal the evolution of human beings:
… Read the rest “Pitchers tell evolution’s story”“Throwing projectiles probably enabled
Discover Magazine tries to put the record straight, revealing that the supposedly septic-mouthed Komodo dragons have been getting a bad rap:
… Read the rest “Komodo dragons’ lethal, bone-crushing jaws not all *that* dirty.”But of all the terrible tales told about these
Awww – is a teeny tiny tinamou!
It’s from this 1868 issue of Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library collection, apparently… Read the rest “Science Art: Chick and Egg of Tinamou &c, from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, February 13, 1868”
Space.com looks hungrily to the stars… neutron stars, where a whole new form of matter makes seriously strange space spaghetti:
… Read the rest “Not solid, liquid, gas or plasma. Nuclear pasta.”A rare state of matter dubbed “nuclear pasta”
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