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Google Street View goes inside the Large Hadron Collider.

1 October 2013 grant 0

Says it all right there. You want to see inside the world’s largest particle accelerator? Street View will take you into the underground tunnels:

We’re delighted that CERN opened

… Read the rest “Google Street View goes inside the Large Hadron Collider.”

Living gears found in little bug’s legs.

13 September 2013 grant 0

This was all over Reddit and ScienceDaily today, because it’s cool. Biologists have found the first example of machine-like gears in a living organism, a critter called an adolescent… Read the rest “Living gears found in little bug’s legs.”

Science Art: Sketch of a Decompression Chamber in Use from Caisson Sickness, and the Physiology of Work in Compressed Air, by Leonard Hill, M.B., 1912.

4 August 2013 grant 0

sketch of decompression chamber in use

People seem to like caissons (pressurized chambers used to build foundations underwater), or so my search referrals tell me.

Well, here’s what working in a caisson can do to you –… Read the rest “Science Art: Sketch of a Decompression Chamber in Use from Caisson Sickness, and the Physiology of Work in Compressed Air, by Leonard Hill, M.B., 1912.”

NASA 3D prints a rocket engine part.

15 July 2013 grant 0

BBC has the details on the space-agency’s successful test of a printed fuel injector:

The part is used to deliver liquid oxygen and hydrogen gas to an engine’s combustion chamber.

… Read the rest “NASA 3D prints a rocket engine part.”

Twin beams of light make fiberoptics better.

28 May 2013 grant 0

By about four times, BBC reports. Using double beams of light quadruples the data capacity of fiber-optic cables:

What limits the distance a given light signal can go is how much power is

… Read the rest “Twin beams of light make fiberoptics better.”

They printed a skull and stuck it in someone’s head.

20 May 2013 grant 0

Singularity Hub reports on the pioneering surgery that used 3D printing to replace 75 percent of a patient’s skull:

At the beginning of March of this year, a radical surgery was performed

… Read the rest “They printed a skull and stuck it in someone’s head.”

SHARK robot for hunting submarines

8 April 2013 grant 0

Robots.net reviews The Pentagon’s latest unmanned drone program – heading underwater with robots named SHARKs (Submarine Hold At RisK):

The robot is designed for Distributed

… Read the rest “SHARK robot for hunting submarines”

Lasers made of sound. Call them… phasers.

18 March 2013 grant 0

Wired reveals the weird ways nanotechnologists are making sound behave like light… this time, by creating a Star Trek weapon in the lab:

Because laser is an acronym for “light amplification

… Read the rest “Lasers made of sound. Call them… phasers.”

Blowing up the Hindenburg again. For good.

15 March 2013 grant 0

San Antonio Express-News finds the greatest way to spend a weekend, figuring out what went wrong in the worst explosion in history:

Most historians and scientists have always subscribed

… Read the rest “Blowing up the Hindenburg again. For good.”

Turn your milk jugs into… whatever. At home. With 3D printing.

11 March 2013 grant 0

Great idea, if it works. Laboratory Equipment looks at the possibility of slicing up plastic trash to use as “ink” for 3D printers:

Using free software downloaded from sites

… Read the rest “Turn your milk jugs into… whatever. At home. With 3D printing.”

Not solar panels – solar *cones*. That spin to keep cool.

31 January 2013 grant 0

Grist gives hope for affordable renewable energy from the engineers who’ve discovered that cones can make solar power cheaper than coal:

The company is called V3Solar (formerly

… Read the rest “Not solar panels – solar *cones*. That spin to keep cool.”

Lasers on jets. That’s where we are now.

29 January 2013 grant 0

The Slashgear blog reveals DARPA’s new plan to convert decent, respectable fighter jets into pew-pew videogame laser gunships:

One of the laser projects is called the High Energy

… Read the rest “Lasers on jets. That’s where we are now.”

Science Art: “One Today,” by Richard Blanco

21 January 2013 grant 0

Miami-raised poet and engineer Richard Blanco was selected to write a poem for today’s presidential inauguration.

It begins and ends with the sky.

Here’s what he read:

One

… Read the rest “Science Art: “One Today,” by Richard Blanco”

Panasonic builds a power loader

11 January 2013 grant 0

It’s a robot exoskeleton, Aliens-style. And it really works.

Science Art: Pneumatische Fundation (Senkkasten Caisson), from Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1889

7 October 2012 grant 2

A caisson is a machine for working under water.

Meyers Konversations-Lexikon is a German encyclopedia.

Rise, German engineers. Rise.

Dive, German engineers. Dive.

Image found at Wikimedia… Read the rest “Science Art: Pneumatische Fundation (Senkkasten Caisson), from Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1889”

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