Roboctopus!
New Scientist introduces our latest underwater overlords – or at least the blueprints for one – in a story about Italian researchers who’re designing the […]
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My Bionic Eye.
BBC News tells the story of a blind man whose life has been changed by his bionic eye: Ron, who has not revealed his surname, […]
Waterproof sand brings promise of new life.
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 […]
Science Art: Astronomiska Instrument, Sextant, Nordisk familjebok
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 […]
The Vertical Farm
I was reading about urban farming lately – growing food in places where normally you’d see multilevel parking garages take root – when a page […]
The Power of a Butterfly’s Wing
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: […]
Science Art: Jorge de Aguiar’s Compass Rose, 1492
Click to embiggen. From Wikimedia Commons, original in Beinecke Library, Yale University. Jorge de Aguiar was a Portuguese cartographer who explored Ethiopia and Arabia in […]
Future: 2008 Energy Breakthroughs
The Memebox FutureBlogger rings in the New Year with the top 10 energy breakthroughs from 2008: There is still a lot we do not know […]
Flying Lasers.
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 […]
Science Art: Explorer VII
Click to embiggen The Explorer VII satellite, carried into space aboard a Juno II rocket on October 13, 1959. It weighed 91.5 pounds, and analyzed […]
Einstein’s Fridge
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 […]
Science Art: Dykeri, fig 6, Nordisk familjebok
Click to embiggen In my deep-sea diving suit. Found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
Robinson Crusoe Found.
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 […]
The Light-Net.
Some bright scientists in Boston (with a little help from the government) are turning energy-efficient lights into flickering wireless repeaters: Gizmodo: The technology will be […]
SONG: (We Can Blame Peter Higgs) At the Collider
SONG: “(We Can Blame Peter Higgs) At the Collider” (To download:double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: CERN progress updates throughout 2008, as used […]