Science Art: Nine of Diamonds: Dyals (1702)
A playing card from a set explaining engineering tools to 18th century British players.
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Test-tube steak will save Earth.
PhysOrg hops on the in-vitro meat bandwagon with a study that concludes lab-grown meat will lower greenhouse gas emissions by 96 percent: The analysis, carried […]
Science Art: Farnsworth–Hirsch Fusor (U.S. Patent 3,386,883)
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 […]
Skilled Veterans Corps heads into the fire.
BBC reports on a team of senior heroes, coming out of retirement – literally – to fight the radiation at Fukushima power station: The retired […]
Driving while absent.
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 […]
Fracking stinkwater.
Nature looks at the odoriferous threat to our drinking water created by new methods of natural gas mining: Injecting large quantities of water and other […]
Inside Fukushima
Nature has a great look at what’s going on inside the Japanese nuclear reactor damaged by the tsunami: So, without emergency cooling, the temperature at […]
China’s nuclear future.
The Guardian is looking clean, abundant and safe as it talks about China’s mission to do nuclear power better – with thorium: Imagine how the […]
Science Art: “Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine,” from One Hundred Years’ Progress of the United States, 1871
Click to embiggen Beautiful machine for skilled labor. You can browse the whole illustrated encyclopedia of fin de siecle technology at archive.org. [via Old Book […]
Science Art: Ion Engine Test Firing, NASA-JPL
Click to embiggen From the Wikimedia Commons description: This image of a xenon ion engine, photographed through a port of the vacuum chamber where it […]
Stop your engines (for just a second).
CleanTechnica announces some fuel-saving technology that’s making its way from hybrids to standard automobiles: Start-stop is a fuel saving approach mainly associated with hybrid vehicles, […]
Science Art: X-15 Pilots Clown Around, 1966
Click to embiggen From NASA’s fashion pages on Flickr.
Coffee balloon hands.
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: The manipulator […]
Jellyfish engines.
U.S. News & World Report gets deep, looking at ways to make submarines swim like jellyfish: Jellyfish create doughnut-shaped currents of rotating water when they […]
Science Art: 8655 (cut-away view of a “barrel”-type milk and cream cooler)
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 […]