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Monthly Archives: May 2008
Storage tank implosion
Ever doubted how powerful air pressure can be? That’s what happens if you don’t properly vent a storage tank before emptying it!
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Biomimetics
Biomimetics is the science of mimicing phenomena that appear in nature. The image at the top of this post is one of the most famous examples of this — velcro is based on the burrs of burdock that attached themselves to the … Continue reading
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Peel and stick solar panels
A company called Lumeta has developed stick and peel solar panels for the roof of your house. For one installation they claim to have installed 2.25kW in 34 minutes!
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Schlieren videos
Schlieren photography allows different densities to be pictured. This video takes the process and applies it to videos. Just watch it, it’s awesome.
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Segway’s new robot
Segway’s new robot uses Mecanum wheels that allow it to travel in all directions without turning. The video of it in action is amazing. [metacafe]http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1230336/make_robotbusiness_2008_segway_rmp/[/metacafe]
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How many elements can you name?
The element game asks you to name the chemical elements. I managed about sixty.
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Laika gets a statue
Laika, the first living creature in space, has been celebrated in Russia with her own statue.
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Glass frogs
Glass Frogs (Centrolenidae Hyalinobatrachium) have pigment-less skin that allows their internal organs to be seen clearly.
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The Monocycle
Could the monocycle be the mode of transport of the future?
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Logo on a human hair
Physicists at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada have used a focussed ion beam microscope to carve the university logo onto a single human hair. Click on the images to englarge them.
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Floating on air
Less dense things will float in more dense things; like cork floating in water or helium floating in air. In the video above an aluminium foil boat floats on sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), a very dense gas.
Cinder the naked chimp
Cinder is a chimp at the Saint Louis Zoo that suffers from alopecia areata, the same autoimmune disease that causes 1.7% of the population to lose its hair.
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Waitomo glowworm cave
The Waitomo glowworm caves in New Zealand are well known for the displays of their famous inhabitants: Arachnocampa luminosa.
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New Mars rover
The Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity have been fantastically successful. It’s hardly surprising then that NASA is already working on their replacement: the Mars Science Laboratory Rover.
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Most powerful laser
The HERCULES laser at the University of Michigan is the world’s most powerful laser. The beam is equivalent in intensity to focussing all the light from the Sun onto a grain of sand.
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