PhysOrg, ready for a day on the beach, reports that nanotech engineers have created waterproof sand. They expect to use it to make the world’s deserts bloom. The stuff is just like … Read the rest “Waterproof sand brings promise of new life.”
The sextant is an instrument that lets you know where you are by determining the sun’s location in the sky – how far above the horizon and how far north or south in the sky.
Essentially… Read the rest “Science Art: Astronomiska Instrument, Sextant, Nordisk familjebok”
I was reading about urban farming lately – growing food in places where normally you’d see multilevel parking garages take root – when a page on Cuba’s successful… Read the rest “The Vertical Farm”
Scientists in China and Japan have come up with a new system for getting power from the sun… by building solar panels like butterfly wings:
… Read the rest “The Power of a Butterfly’s Wing”AZoM, the A to Z of Materials:
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From Wikimedia Commons, original in Beinecke Library, Yale University.
Jorge de Aguiar was a Portuguese cartographer who explored Ethiopia and Arabia in the early … Read the rest “Science Art: Jorge de Aguiar’s Compass Rose, 1492”
The Memebox FutureBlogger rings in the New Year with the top 10 energy breakthroughs from 2008:
… Read the rest “Future: 2008 Energy Breakthroughs”There is still a lot we do not know about the basics of energy systems dealing with photons,
We’re one step closer to living in a Flash Gordon serial, New Scientist reports, as engineers prepare to unleash a brilliant barrage of airborne death with fleets of flying lasers… Read the rest “Flying Lasers.”
The Explorer VII satellite, carried into space aboard a Juno II rocket on October 13, 1959. It weighed 91.5 pounds, and analyzed Earth’s radiation while looking… Read the rest “Science Art: Explorer VII”
Albert Einstein: atomic physicist, scientific genius, refrigerator maker? Back in the 1920s, he and his pupil Leo Szilard saw a need for a refrigerator (which is, if you think about it, … Read the rest “Einstein’s Fridge”
Yes, the plucky, inventive island castaway Robinson Crusoe was a fictional character. But author Robert Louis Stevenson, writing in the mid-1800s, based him on the very real Alexander… Read the rest “Robinson Crusoe Found.”
Some bright scientists in Boston (with a little help from the government) are turning energy-efficient lights into flickering wireless repeaters:
… Read the rest “The Light-Net.”Gizmodo:
The technology will be able
SONG: “(We Can Blame Peter Higgs) At the Collider” (To download:double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: CERN progress updates throughout… Read the rest “SONG: (We Can Blame Peter Higgs) At the Collider”
So. Wired tells us it’s true – the roar of the sportscar kinda turns us on:
… Read the rest “Drive my car.”To test the theory that high-performance cars get people hot, Moxon had 40 men and women listen to recordings
And we all just shifted back in time by 3.214 seconds. Did you feel that?
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