Touching robot fingers.
You wouldn’t think it would be emotional, but as this CBS report illustrates, that depends on if it’s the first time you’ve held hands with […]
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Science Art: Caisson, by Pearson Scott Foreman.
Found on Wikimedia Commons. It moves water. It moves me.
Printed dishes.
Fast Company has its eyes on tomorrow’s dinner with a new application for 3D printing – food printed to order: The newest 3-D food printer, […]
Science Art: Nine of Diamonds: Dyals (1702)
A playing card from a set explaining engineering tools to 18th century British players.
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.