Science Art: X-15 Pilots Clown Around, 1966
Click to embiggen From NASA’s fashion pages on Flickr.
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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 […]
Science Art: Two-Dimensional Low-Turbulence Tunnel
Click to embiggen NASA has a new collection on Flickr Commons. It’s pretty awesome. So is this wind tunnel, also known as the “ice tunnel” […]
Science Art: Repeating circle with two telescopes, Caroline Hassler, 1820
Click to embiggen Image of Victorian-era coastal survey equipment found in the NOAA Photo Library. The equipment belonged to the artist’s grandfather, a Swiss immigrant […]
Gorilla glass!
The Christian Science Monitor loves primates. On the heels of the flying squirrel discovery, they’re analyzing the economic ramifications of “gorilla glass”: Two to three […]
How NASA finds oil.
Unfortunately, as NPR reveals, we’re not talking about the kind that’s still safely underground: The NASA Earth Observatory explains that since ocean waters are never […]
Body power. That’s hot.
Forbes traces the development of devices powered by body heat: A resting male can put out between 100 and 120 watts of energy, in theory […]
Making pavement pay.
Covered this as a concept before here, but PhysOrg is reporting that a town in France is making step-powered pavement a reality: Authorities in Toulouse […]
Science Art: The U.S.S. Los Angeles moored on the U.S.S. Pakota, 1924
Click to embiggen. This is the US Navy’s airship Los Angeles, the most successful of America’s rigid-body airships, engaging in a maneuver that proved dirigibles […]
Nuclear molemen?
Sorry, but I just can’t outdo Wired’s headline on this one: Pentagon Scientists Target Iran’s Nuclear Molemen: Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, apparently takes a personal […]
Feeling with a robot hand.
The Mail Times reports on a bionic breakthrough – a man who can feel and control his prosthetic hand as if it was the one […]
Coke Silver could save the world.
Or, at least, do less harm. The folks at Gizmodo are touting the concept of the future-friendly paint-free Coke can: So using only classic Coca-Cola’s […]
Another LHC baguatelle.
Yeah, so the LHC really, really can’t catch a break. Not only are bizarre electrical failures, Al Qaeda operatives and time travelers out to get […]