Good luck getting through the weekend without having Haddaway’s “What is Love” stuck in your head and bopping your head back-and-forth…..
Category Archives: Science
Great Scott, Doc Brown!! A TIME MACHINE in IRAN?!?
It looks as if that 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 with plutonium that would supply the 1.21 gigawatts of power to the flux capacitor that I’ve saved up for won’t be necessary. Iranian scientist Ali Razeghi is the managing director of Iran’s Centre for Strategic Inventions says that he created a time machine called “The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine”. Well, it’s KINDA of a time machine because it’s only limited to taking you to the future. Well, it won’t actually bring you to the future, per se, but it rather brings the future to you, and Razeghi says that using complex algorithms in his invention can “predict five to eight years of the future life of any individual, with 98 percent accuracy”. Hmmm… Read the rest of this entry
Want a Apartment Where You Can GROW Your Own A/C?
If so, then BOY; DO I HAVE A STORY FOR YOU!! This is the Bio Intelligent Quotient (BIQ) House, a recently completed 15-unit apartment building in Hamburg, Germany, and what is its main feature? Well, it has to be that the East and West facades are covered in 129 sun-tracking algae tanks installed on an automated external scaffolding structure, which are fed through an integrated tubing system within the building — which also pumps in the necessary CO2. The project cost about €5 million and was designed by Splitterwerk Architects with funding by the Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA), which is a long-running architectural concept techniques exhibition. Read the rest of this entry
Get 75% of Your Skull Back w/ 3D-Printed Prosthetic!
With the rise of the utilization of 3D printing, we have gone from printing out figurines and animation projects for our own personal amusement to fabricating items to improve the quality of life of those with health afflictions I mentioned on the site before about a patient receiving a new jaw via a 3D printout and the first synthetic organ transplant with a 3D scan and stem cells, but this one is SOMETHING ELSE. A couple of weeks ago, it was revealed that a man in the United States (his name being withheld) underwent a transplant procedure to have 75 percent of his skull replaced with a 3D-printed plastic prosthetic. That’s correct; THREE-FOURTHS of a MAN’S SKULL was REPLACED! **head explodes** Read the rest of this entry
Cornell’s Amazing Science Island of Manhattan!
Manhattan has something very interesting to look forward to in the next few years. Roosevelt Island will be receiving a state-of-the-art engineering campus extension of Cornell University. Nowadays, it is becoming near impossible to forget this tiny strip of an island named after one of two of the most awesome U.S. Presidents in history that lies between Manhattan and Queens (F.Y.I., it’s named after Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a.k.a., “American Ironsides,” a.k.a. “Mr. New Deal” a.k.a “Senor Got-Us-Out-Of-The-Great Depression,” a.k.a “Our Fearless WW2 Leader).
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Get The Party Started…WITH SCIENCE!!!
I guess this might prove that Principal Mahzar from “A Goofy Movie” wasn’t THAT crazy with the science slumber party idea; though I’m too old for the whole slumber party thing. For more fun science-related things and stuffness, follow @RichardWiseman on Twitter for more quirky psychology,i.e., “Quirkology”.
Future Cameras To Have NO LENS?!? Crazy Science Talk!!
I don’t know if you know this, but metamaterials are starting to become pretty useful for having some fun with the electromagnetic spectrum, and that ranges from the technology you can see in any science-fiction show, book and.or movie, or for use in the real world. It seems that engineers at Duke University have come up with a metamaterial imaging sensor that doesn’t require a lens to generate a picture. This means that this could lead to cheaper imaging technology in the near-to-distant future. Read the rest of this entry
Want The Perfect Christmas Tree? Germany Plans to Clone You One
Nowadays, we have a variety of selections involving what type of Christmas tree to get and put in our living rooms. We can choose from purchasing and/or chopping down your own real tree, buying a life-like artificial tree (green or silver), a basic cardboard cut-out, or even some tech-inspired ideas (trees made from spare car parts, old hard drives, flexible OLED panels, and a crew of quadrocopters stacking boxes; thanks Engadget). But Germany wants to offer a new method for selecting a Christmas tree, and it involves altering the genetic code of a popular local fir and cloning perfect specimens of it. Yes, Germany is about to go all “Jurassic Park” on Christmas trees! Read the rest of this entry
A Harry Potter “Invisibility Cloak” is Almost Real (Less Magic, More Carbon Nanotubes)
OK Harry Potter fans: does the phrase “I solemnly swear I’m up to no good” ring any bells. If so, then you’re already pretty familiar with the invisibility cloak, and I’m sure you’ll be happy to know of the real-life-existence of the cloak. With the utilization of carbon nanotubes (rather than magic), university researchers have found a way to make objects seem to “magically” vanish by using similar principles on the existence of mirages. Read the rest of this entry
Autonomous Plane from MIT Makes a Parking Garage Into A Slalom Course
Have you ever flown those remote-controlled airplanes and helicopters indoors? If so, you might remember how it may have taken a while to learn the controls properly to get your flying device going forward fast. That, and learning how to avoid any and every obstacle locating inside your house. Thanks to the plane designed by the Robust Robotics Group at MIT, we may in fact have finally found an exception to that. Check out the video after the break. Read the rest of this entry
DIY Portable Wind Turbine to Power Gadgets While Camping; Make Many More to Power Your House…
Have you ever thought to yourself: “you know what, I wish I could have my own portable, take-anywhere-with-me wind turbine to charge my low power electronic devices”. Well my friends (and if your though was just a oddly specific as that), Instructables user ineverfinishanyth (clever name, by the way) was looking for a way to power his gadgets while he went on camping trips, so he decided to build his own portable turbine that weighs only 16 ounces. Hurrah to free, clean, and green energy!
Charge you Cell Phone with FIRE (or candles) & SCIENCE!
For the second time in the last month, the transformer on my street went haywire and the power went out on our street for a few hours. Fortunately, we had plenty of flashlights and candles (old school FTW) to keep the house well-lit enough; unfortunatley, my phone’s battery is about to die, and there was no available power. DIY weblog Tinkernut shows us how to power your phone with the heat of one of those candles, thanks to thermodynamics, thermoelectric effects, and a Peltier effect device.
Attack of the Laser-Controlled Micro-robot Bubbles!!
Why, you ask? Why would bubbles be chosen over four-wheeled remote cars or planes, human-like androids, or even a kite? Because SCIENCE, that’s why! Researchers at the University of Hawaii (located in my birth state; AWESOME) have designed and built microscopic robots made from a single bubble and have their movement controlled by lasers. Yes, you read that correctly. Check out a video bubble ballet demonstration after the break.
PSU Developing Bandages That Dissolve Into Sugar Post-Healing
Penn State University’s Department of Food Science have worked utilizing an electrospinning device to stretch fibrous strands from a solution of biodegradable food-starch. After using the solvent to dissolve the starch into fluid, the long strands are then spun and then can be woven together like textiles—an application that could potentially include the creation of napkins, tissues, paper-like products, and even medical dressings, such as gauze and bandages. Read the rest of this entry
Sooooo, the “Racism-Curing” Pills Are Real?
I don’t know if I should be ecstatic at the thought of the perfect, happy world that would be able to eliminate all types of hatred and negativity, or frightened at the notion of a medical drug affecting the brain so much to cause such a result. Hmmmm, what to think; what to think…
