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 objects out of graphene:
… Read the rest “Graphene is cool! 3D printing is cool! What else would be cool? Let’s put ’em TOGETHER!”Mining
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:
… Read the rest “Google Street View goes inside the Large Hadron Collider.”We’re delighted that CERN opened
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.”
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.”
BBC has the details on the space-agency’s successful test of a printed fuel injector:
… Read the rest “NASA 3D prints a rocket engine part.”The part is used to deliver liquid oxygen and hydrogen gas to an engine’s combustion chamber.
By about four times, BBC reports. Using double beams of light quadruples the data capacity of fiber-optic cables:
… Read the rest “Twin beams of light make fiberoptics better.”What limits the distance a given light signal can go is how much power is
Singularity Hub reports on the pioneering surgery that used 3D printing to replace 75 percent of a patient’s skull:
… Read the rest “They printed a skull and stuck it in someone’s head.”At the beginning of March of this year, a radical surgery was performed
Robots.net reviews The Pentagon’s latest unmanned drone program – heading underwater with robots named SHARKs (Submarine Hold At RisK):
… Read the rest “SHARK robot for hunting submarines”The robot is designed for Distributed
Wired reveals the weird ways nanotechnologists are making sound behave like light… this time, by creating a Star Trek weapon in the lab:
… Read the rest “Lasers made of sound. Call them… phasers.”Because laser is an acronym for “light amplification
San Antonio Express-News finds the greatest way to spend a weekend, figuring out what went wrong in the worst explosion in history:
… Read the rest “Blowing up the Hindenburg again. For good.”Most historians and scientists have always subscribed
Great idea, if it works. Laboratory Equipment looks at the possibility of slicing up plastic trash to use as “ink” for 3D printers:
… Read the rest “Turn your milk jugs into… whatever. At home. With 3D printing.”Using free software downloaded from sites
Grist gives hope for affordable renewable energy from the engineers who’ve discovered that cones can make solar power cheaper than coal:
… Read the rest “Not solar panels – solar *cones*. That spin to keep cool.”The company is called V3Solar (formerly
The Slashgear blog reveals DARPA’s new plan to convert decent, respectable fighter jets into pew-pew videogame laser gunships:
… Read the rest “Lasers on jets. That’s where we are now.”One of the laser projects is called the High Energy
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:
… Read the rest “Science Art: “One Today,” by Richard Blanco”One
It’s a robot exoskeleton, Aliens-style. And it really works.
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