It’s a great article about them, but this is something I’ve been looking for for ages: it describes the huge gatherings these sharks have as they migrate towards the poles: 500 large! I’ve seen footage of them passing over in endless ranks… this is something I need to do before I die!
After 3 failed launces, fourth time was lucky – the three stage rocket made it to low earth orbit, making it the first privately funded spacecraft to do this, trumping Spaceship One, which, allthough manned, only stays in space for very short periods of time.
Well done China, not many countries have had spacewalking astronauts!
20 Watts of power was transmitted wirelessley between 2 points 98 miles apart. The resultant power at the end station was only 1000th of what was sent, but this shows the feasability of the concept. The ultimate plan is to have satellites transmit the power to stations on earth.
We have had in rapid succession a transparent water repellent coating and Golden Shellback which water and dustproofs. Now we have a British process to make any item ‘100% waterproof’ through ion masking. They can’t yet do electronics though they’re working on it.
A great idea in the fight against cancer: make the cancerous cells light up in a fluorescent colour, so that the surgeon knows if he’s cut out enough the first time round. Saves a lot of extraenous flesh being cut away too.
What are cars going to look like in the year 2015? Well, I’m guessing they’re going to look kind of like our cars to day, but maybe a touch more aerodynamic. But hey, what do I know? When asked the same question, Transportation Design students at Turin-based IED (istituto Europeo di Design) came up with Read more about 2015 concept BMW certainly is futuristic[…]
When your aim is to travel across the great ice plains of Antarctica, a normal car or truck meant for highways and regular streets probably isn’t going to meet your specific needs. You need a vehicle designed for the wide expanses of ice down on the bottom of the world. The Lotus Concept Ice Vehicle Read more about Drive to the south pole in style in the Lotus CIV[…]
geothermal-power-process.jpgIn case you weren’t aware, below the surface of the earth there’s a sea of insanely hot material that’s constantly swirling around. When tapped, that heat source can be used as geothermal power. With so much down there, why aren’t we using it more? That’s a question asked in Australia, where a study determined that Read more about 1% of potential geothermal energy could deliver power for 26,000 years[…]
Of all the electric car designs we’ve seen, this one is the most puzzling yet. The Hinterland Project starts with the shape of an airplane fuselage and turns it into a sustainable vehicle. However, it looks more like an electric tin can with wheels to us. The idea is its aerodynamic shape and lightweight aluminum Read more about Hinterland electric vehicle looks like a bulbous bullet train[…]
The final frontier of wireless tech is upon us, with Intel showing off its electricity flying through the air with better efficiency than ever. While it’s not the first wireless power transmitting device we’ve seen, this one uses resonance rather than induction, and boasts 75% efficiency. Hey, that means if you send 100 watts across Read more about Intel wireless power is pure magic, most efficient yet[…]
What do you get when you bring together a pizza oven, some nail polish and inkjet printers? Solar cells. You and I may be scratching our heads, but the woman behind the process known as iJet, Nicole Kuepper, won two Australian Museum Eureka Prizes — Australia’s top science awards. The real beauty of Ms. Kuepper’s Read more about Australian student fashions solar cells out of nail polish as only MacGyver could[…]
Iran has just launched a satellite into space using it’s own rocket.
The coating causes water to bead up into drops and roll or bounce off a surface, can be applied by spraying, spinning or dipping and allows you to determine the path which the droplets take when they roll off. This is extremely usefull to prevent icing on aircraft (which is extremely dangerous) but also to Read more about Transparent coating repels water[…]
Nope – that’s when the Large Hadron Collider finally gets fired up!
The Dutch town of Hengelo will be trying out concrete that binds nitrogen oxide particles and using an additive turns these into harmless nitrates which are washed clean by the rain. Hengelo is testing this in one half of the new roads and measuring the effecacity by next summer.
The NASA Mars lander has found water and has sampled it. It hasn’t found anything organic in the water yet, but the mission is being extended by 90 days in the hopes of finding more.
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Professors in the US are using TV voting machines (called ‘clickers’) to test students’ knowledge of the subject being taught during lectures. As they vote, bar graphs go up in real time allowing people to see how the voting is going. Students using the clicker system score 10% higher than without and it seems to Read more about Using TV style voting in physics class[…]
The energy is stored at the edges of the windows themselves. The big difficulty in doing this has been getting the energy away from the centre of the window. Not only does this work on windows, but it’ll increase the efficiency of existing solar panels by 40 times.
That’s one to remember! Eating watermelons has around the same effect as popping the little blue pills does!
The EWG tested close to 1000 sunscreens, and it turns out that they can only reccomend 143 of them. 314 they urge caution and 495 (!), which include common, well known brands are basically downright dangerous to assume they’re sunscreen.
Most fysiologists and psychologists know that movements are initiated by the brain some time before the conscious mind thinks about them and ‘decides’ to initiate them. This article rounds up a little on desicion making in general, showing that the time could be up to 30 seconds before determination when making mistakes and 10 seconds Read more about Is free will governed by thought?[…]
So, if you were upset that ESA was hiring astronauts because you’re not a European and couldn’t make it, no problem! The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is seeking an astronaut to support the ISS program./a> Surprisingly the job requirements are way less stringent than for the ESA. You can make do with a batchelor Read more about Become an Astronaut part 2[…]
‘Skin-tenna’ wireless signals creep over human skin allowing you to connect medical equipment or gadgets. These remind me of the Human Area Networks and Redtacton skin networks