Lovely ladies, all of them. Science, the mother of Steam and Electricity, presents her children to their new, lugubriously lolling caretakers. This was, of course, […]
PhysOrg reveals why Japan is going to outlast us all – because instead of (or in addition to) prospecting for oil reserves, they’re going to […]
OK, sorry for that headline. Ahem. But here! There are these two kids in Nepal who figured out how to make solar energy a heck […]
I just had an enjoyable email exchange with a friend who asked me about something he’d been wondering. (These are generally the best kinds of […]
Click to embiggen In the good old days, computers looked like this. “Computer” was a job, not a tool, and it was often done by […]
Endgadgets prepares us for robot dominance of the skies by 2047: In its recently released “Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Plan 2009-2047” report, the US Air […]
The Daily Green recently revealed an alternative fuel scheme that may be much better than bird-brained: Finding novel uses for chicken feathers is a pet […]
It’s practically like the moisture farms in Star Wars. Scientific Blogging has this thing about how we could be getting drinking water from *humidity* and […]
Click to embiggen. The Death of Harris, who jumped from a hydrogen balloon in 1824. It was not a “perfectly good balloon,” as the sky […]
New Scientist has a picture taken by the world’s deepest-diving robot: “Nereus is like no other deep submergence vehicle,” says oceanographer Tim Shank of WHOI. […]
“Oops,” of course, is a word that means science is going about its job correctly, because by discovering mistakes we learn what works and what […]
Behold the Pelton wheel. This is a kind of water turbine designed to turn babbling brooks into industrious electrical generators. Beautiful imagery from the Wikipedia […]
The MIT Technology Review (and other sources) have reported on a new technique that Canadian doctors devised for preparing lungs for transplants – or repairing […]
Click to embiggen This is what a sonic boom looks like, through a Schlieren camera – one outfitted to see differences in air pressure. The […]
The IEEE (what used to be the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) reports in Spectrum about a strange new entertainment breakthrough that combines neurology, […]
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