Three countries have agreed to work together to build the largest radio telescope ever made. South Africa, Australia and New Zealand have decided to pool their resources after making separate bids to run the Square Kilometre Array project. The name comes from the aim of producing a total collecting area of one million square meters. […]
Of the suit he wore on the moon, Neil Armstrong wrote, “it was tough, reliable, and almost cuddly.” But that cuddly suit, made by the company Playtex, had some stiff competition (literally) from rival rigid, metal designs. This video features archival NASA footage of mobility tests for several spacesuit prototypes. Music is from the band […]
Shamengo pioneer Pierre Calleja has invented something truly remarkable–a light powered by algae that absorbs CO2 in the air–at the rate of 1 ton PER YEAR, or what a tree absorbs over its entire lifetime! The microalgae streetlamp has the potential to provide significantly cleaner air in urban areas and revolutionize the cityscape. [Via]
The show Star Trek and the character Scotty may have been fictional (sorry to spoil that), but actor James Doohan was real — and now he’s really in space. The story is slightly spoiled by the fact that Doohan died seven years ago, though had he still been alive the trip would have been impossible. […]
Keyword in that title is may. The study conducted by the National Cancer Institute (which is part of the National Institutes of Health, and AARP) has associated drinking three or more cups of coffee per day with a 10 percent lower risk of death, though it seems the results are far from conclusive. It needs […]
All explained with such clarity. One for the biologists to have a little giggle at. Not sure how I feel about the altered spelling of Genus though… [Via Fake Science]
A New Zealand physicist has published a paper that claims to prove that two positively charged metal spheres will almost always attract when placed close enough to one another. Professor John Lekner from the Victoria University of Wellington claims that if the space between the two spheres is small, relative to the size of the […]
A mad scientist read a graphic novel of a story of the battle between Edison and Tesla in the war to dominate the electric world – a graphic novel where Tesla had awesome Tesla guns. So he set about creating is own. And it’s battery powered. If you’ve got all the hardware, you could even […]