NASAs Messenger Flyby Captures Never-Before-Seen Images of Mercury | Popular Science
NASAs Messenger Flyby Captures Never-Before-Seen Images of Mercury | Popular Science. Fascinating new pictures of Mercury taken by NASA’s Messenger spacecraft. Another little write-up for PopSci.com, follow the link above to read and see all the images.
Newest Lightbulb Tech Combines Advantages of Incandescent, Fluorescent, and LED | Popular Science
Newest Lightbulb Tech Combines Advantages of Incandescent, Fluorescent, and LED | Popular Science. A new type of light bulb that’s supposed to be as energy-efficient as CFL, but provide warmer, more incandescent-like light…follow the link to read my story at PopSci.com
Fungus-Infected Violin Beats Stradivarius in Listening Test | Popular Science
Fungus-Infected Violin Beats Stradivarius in Listening Test | Popular Science. Apparently you can replicate the sound of a Stradivarius violin by infecting wood with a special fungus, and then using it to make violins. Should make high quality violins cheaper, even if blind listening tests are bound to be subjective. Anyway, another article of mine […]
A Squirt of Stem Cell Gel Heals Brain Injuries | Popular Science
A Squirt of Stem Cell Gel Heals Brain Injuries | Popular Science. Not as cool as swarms of insect-robots, but likely to be a lot more useful sooner. The scientists developed a gel that can be loaded with chemicals and stem cells, and seems to help brain injuries heal. Follow the title link for the […]
Ant-Sized Microbots Travel in Swarms | Popular Science
Ant-Sized Microbots Travel in Swarms | Popular Science. My first article for PopSci.com, about Microbots, the possible future of robotics. The researchers developed a way to quickly make tiny, cheap, mass-produced robots. Individually they’re simple, but if each one can communicate and collect data, together they might be able to mimic certain insects like ants, […]
Cheapy Lighter Laser Burner | Kipkay.com
Cheapy Lighter Laser Burner | Kipkay.com. This guy has tonnes of videos showing how to make cool gadgets at minimal expense, or to play pranks. In this one he modifies a simple Bic lighter to make it into a laser burner! Perfect for James Bond… Other cool ones include homemade infra-red goggles, and how to […]
Seemingly ‘Duh!’ Scientific Studies Often Hold Value – WSJ.com
Seemingly ‘Duh!’ Scientific Studies Often Hold Value – WSJ.com. A nice article on how serious research is often simplified in the press releases to make it seem either obvious or meaningless. It just goes to show that to appreciate the importance of most research one needs to know its context. A lot of the time, […]
Bacterial computers can crack mathematical problems | Science | guardian.co.uk
Bacterial computers can crack mathematical problems | Science | guardian.co.uk Very cool research in the journal of bioengineering (http://www.jbioleng.org/content/3/1/11/abstract), using bacteria to solve the Hamiltonian Path problem (finding the shortest route to travel between several different cities). Computers have to compare each possible path to find out the shortest. Bacteria solved a simplified version involving […]