Where will the world’s third largest rollercoaster be built next year?
If you thought “in a theme park” then you’d be wrong.
The Ares Emergency Egress System (EES) is designed to help astronauts evacuate the launch pad very quickly in case of emergency.
The new Titan³ scanning/transmission electron microscope from FEI Company has a maximum resolution of 0.05 nanometres, or one-quarter of the diameter of a carbon atom.
Mimosa pudica, also known as ‘The Sensitive Plant’ is one of only a few plants that undergoes “rapid plant movement“.
What does that mean? It’s very simple – it’s a plant that reacts to touch!
Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are nature’s toughest animals.
They can survive in temperatures from close to absolute zero (270°C below freezing) to more than 150°C.
They can survive without water for more than 10 years and withstand a dose of radiation equivalent to having more than 4 million X-rays taken.
And apparently, they can also survive in the vacuum of space.
This video is a rather scary demonstration of something called ground resonance that occurs in helicopters.
The Chinook helicopter in the video below has had its skids removed, allowing the fuselage and rotor assembly to vibrate at the same frequency, causing resonance to occur and the helicopter to literally shake itself apart.