How Forbidden City was built: ice machine!
Not the moving parts kind, but the wedge/screw/lever kind. Want to move giant blocks of stone a few miles, but the locomotive and crane haven’t […]
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Limbs printed to order.
I’ve seen this in a few different venues, but Laughing Squid brings the best of it together. A dad, frustrated at the thought of buying […]
Graphene is cool! 3D printing is cool! What else would be cool? Let’s put ’em TOGETHER!
Gigaom takes the two great tastes of home manufacturing and carbon crystalline structures and makes them taste great together with a 3D printer that creates […]
Google Street View goes inside the Large Hadron Collider.
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 […]
Living gears found in little bug’s legs.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
NASA 3D prints a rocket engine part.
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 […]
Twin beams of light make fiberoptics better.
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 […]
They printed a skull and stuck it in someone’s head.
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 […]
SHARK robot for hunting submarines
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 […]
Lasers made of sound. Call them… phasers.
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 […]
Blowing up the Hindenburg again. For good.
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 […]
Turn your milk jugs into… whatever. At home. With 3D printing.
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 […]
Not solar panels – solar *cones*. That spin to keep cool.
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 […]
Lasers on jets. That’s where we are now.
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 […]