The innards of a nuclear reactor, from a relatively recent patent application. That is, 1966. By inventor Philo T. Farnsworth.
It’s a fusor, which is to say a thing that makes fusion… Read the rest “Science Art: Farnsworth–Hirsch Fusor (U.S. Patent 3,386,883)”
BBC reports on a team of senior heroes, coming out of retirement – literally – to fight the radiation at Fukushima power station:
… Read the rest “Skilled Veterans Corps heads into the fire.”The retired engineer is reporting back for
No, PhysOrg says, if Google has its way, it won’t be illegal any more in Nevada if you want to send your car out for a spin without a driver:
… Read the rest “Driving while absent.”It’s not exactly clear why Google chose Nevada
Nature looks at the odoriferous threat to our drinking water created by new methods of natural gas mining:
… Read the rest “Fracking stinkwater.”Injecting large quantities of water and other fluids to fracture deep rock formations
Nature has a great look at what’s going on inside the Japanese nuclear reactor damaged by the tsunami:
… Read the rest “Inside Fukushima”So, without emergency cooling, the temperature at the core of both reactors
The Guardian is looking clean, abundant and safe as it talks about China’s mission to do nuclear power better – with thorium:
… Read the rest “China’s nuclear future.”Imagine how the nuclear energy debate might differ
Beautiful machine for skilled labor.
You can browse the whole illustrated encyclopedia of fin de siecle technology at archive.org.
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From the Wikimedia Commons description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Ion Engine Test Firing, NASA-JPL”This image of a xenon ion engine, photographed through a port of the vacuum chamber where it was being tested at NASA’s Jet
CleanTechnica announces some fuel-saving technology that’s making its way from hybrids to standard automobiles:
… Read the rest “Stop your engines (for just a second).”Start-stop is a fuel saving approach mainly associated with
Yeah, that headline sounds kind of dada, doesn’t it? But it’s exactly what The Register is describing as the latest Pentagon robotics breakthrough:
… Read the rest “Coffee balloon hands.”The manipulator works
U.S. News & World Report gets deep, looking at ways to make submarines swim like jellyfish:
… Read the rest “Jellyfish engines.”Jellyfish create doughnut-shaped currents of rotating water when they swim…. these
Image from PHIL, the Public Health Image Library of the Centers for Disease Control.
It’s an old-fashioned fridge, as recommended by the Minnesota Board of Health in 1929 as a means… Read the rest “Science Art: 8655 (cut-away view of a “barrel”-type milk and cream cooler)”
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NASA has a new collection on Flickr Commons.
It’s pretty awesome.
So is this wind tunnel, also known as the “ice tunnel” because it was studying that… Read the rest “Science Art: Two-Dimensional Low-Turbulence Tunnel”
Image of Victorian-era coastal survey equipment found in the NOAA Photo Library.
The equipment belonged to the artist’s grandfather, a Swiss immigrant and West… Read the rest “Science Art: Repeating circle with two telescopes, Caroline Hassler, 1820”
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