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:
Di Zhang and
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”)
ARTIST: grant.
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?
Scientists, as the Telegraph points out, have long been mystified by the bumblebee. It’s short and fat with stubby wings that, mathematically speaking, should never be able to generate… Read the rest “Fly like a bumblebee.”
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