Popular Science shows us how to make a cheap paper microscope that really works: In the Foldscope, invented by Stanford University engineers, creased paper creates […]
Click to embiggen slightly From The Colliery Manager’s Handbook … Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, an 1898 book in the British Library’s public domain collection. […]
Nature shows how one of the simplest toys out there – a loop of string with a spinning bit of paper in the middle – […]
Science Daily brings us one step closer to a sci-fi tomorrow with researchers publishing open-source directions on making a tractor beam at home: Last year […]
Nature looks into the future of Africa and sees a sunny outlook – at least as far as solar and wind power generation go: Africa’s […]
Click to embiggen Sigmund Riefler was a physicist and precision clockmaker. He also created this, a precision barometer, or, rather, a barometer connected to a […]
The Verge has some photos of – and the story behind – the new, tunnel-like city bus that cars can drive under in traffic: According […]
Scientific American (and notable author Rowan Jacobsen) reports on the dry, dry nation of Israel creating a water surplus by making the sea drinkable: Desal […]
Wired is thinking big about something much, much smaller than a hamster in a wheel – powering microscopic machines with “bacterial windfarms”: The natural movement […]
Click to embiggen Mmm. Jelly. Jam. Apple butter. This is labeled “THE WYTTENBACH STEAM STERILISER” on on Wikimedia Commons, with some garbled dimensions. But you […]
Science Daily has more on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers who have 3D-printed a polymer that turns methane to methanol: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory […]
This is the filament of a headlight – a halogen bulb you put in the front end of your car, one of these – as […]
Science Daily shows off a new medical device that grows new human parts in whatever shape you can draw them: In a landmark proof-of-concept experiment, […]
Click to embiggen This is a big horn for making big noise. It’s the way the European Space Agency tests how satellites stand up to […]
Wired reports on the successful ignition of a fire three times hotter than the sun: The march to sustainable nuclear fusion appears to have made […]
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