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"Fragile Earth" App Slides Time to Show the Ravages of Climate Change and...
Fragile Earth, new in the App Store this week, is a simple idea, and it's actually executed simply as well--two or more photos of the same place over time, with a slider so you can see how it looks in...
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The Suit That Will Help Felix Baumgartner Withstand A 120,000-Foot Free Fall
The Mach-1 Suit Jeff NewtonThe life-saving technology behind the daredevil's attempt to accomplish the longest free fall in history Sometime before the end of this year, skydiver Felix Baumgartner...
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Video: Flying Objects Punch Through Saturnian Ring, Blazing Glittery Trails...
Saturn's Weirdest Ring This montage shows various objects blasting through Saturn's F ring, leaving glittering trails of dust in their wakes. NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists scrutinizing Cassini imagery...
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2012 Military Wishlist Features Smart Wound-Diagnosing Uniforms and...
Drone Pilots U.S. Air Force Photo/Senior Airman Nadine Y. Barclay Even though giant companies like Lockheed and General Dynamics produce the majority of U.S. military hardware, the Department of...
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New Study Finds Vast Galactic Network, No Sign of Dark Matter
Cluster of Galaxies Galaxies in this image, left to right: Upper inner left, NGC 3193; middle, NGC 3190; upper right (2 o'clock), NGC 3187; lower right (4 o'clock), NGC 3185. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSC Is...
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Video: An Inflatable, Flying Turbine Goes Higher to Find Stronger Winds
The Airborne Wind Turbine Prototype from Altaeros Energies Altaeros Energies Oil companies look for oil where they think it might be most abundant, so doesn't it make sense to seek wind power in the...
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Super Nano-Waterproof Coating Actively Shrugs Off Water, Grease and Would-Be...
Shaking It Off Multilayers of nanoparticles can be used as a coating for cotton fabrics that would actively ward off liquids and stains. The material is stabilized by exposure to UV light. Zhao et...
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NASA's New Deep-Space J-2X Rocket Motor is Ready For More Tests
The J-2X NASA/SSC NASA's J-2X rocket engine is on the test stand and ready for its second round of tests, building on last year's successful test-firings that by some metrics were the most successful...
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Who is Flying Drones in the U.S. and Where Are They Flying?
More Drones are Coming to U.S. Airspace U.S. Department of Homeland SecurityFAA releases a list of authorized domestic UAVs A list of current entities permitted by the Federal Aviation Administration...
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After Decades of Mystery, Has the G-Spot Been Found?
Blue G ProcsilasA surgeon claims to have found the fabled organ, but skeptics say not so fast For decades, researchers have argued over the existence of the G-spot, a supersensitive spongy organ on the...
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Who Is To Blame When A Robotic Car Crashes?
Take The Wheel Jonathan Carlson Society must make two big leaps in order to enable truly self-driving cars. The first is technological. Engineers need to improve today's cars (which can warn a driver...
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64 Speakers Aim to Make Dolby Atmos The Most Realistic/Terrifying Surround Sound
Dolby Atmos Dolby Dolby Laboratories announced a new audio system this week, called Dolby Atmos, that the company calls "an entirely new viewing experience for theatergoers." It's kind of a...
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Video: MIT Engineers Design Fog-Free, Water-Repellent, Anti-Glare Glass
Perfect Bead Blue-dyed water droplets sitting on a transparent nanotaper surface (left) and on flat glass (right), each placed on top of printed black letters. The insets are top views of the same two...
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The World's Biggest Digital Camera Begins Engineering Phase
Enormous Giga Cam The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope camera has 189 sensors and will provide more than 3 gigapixels per image. A human is shown on the side for scale. Courtesy LSST Project The biggest...
View ArticleEspro Press Review: French Press Flavor, Hold the Mud
A Kickstarter-funded thermal press pot addresses the major complaint against the French press: grit in your cup The French press is the simplest, cheapest way to make a legitimately good cup of coffee....
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Neurons in Bird Brains Encode Earth's Magnetic Field, Giving Pigeons Reliable...
Pigeon On Flight Path Wikipedia Neurons in the brains of pigeons encode the direction of Earth's magnetic field, endowing the birds with an innate internal GPS system, according to a new study....
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In a Medical First, Doctors Transplant the Same Kidney Twice in Two Weeks
Human Organ for Transplantation via UWO Transplanting a kidney is a dicey enough proposition at first go, so the fact that Northwestern University doctors have transplanted the same kidney twice is...
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Video: 'Anti-Piracy Curtain' Makes Boarding Ships a Wet, Dangerous Mess for...
The Anti-Piracy 'Curtain' via DigInfo.tv It's perfectly understandable why commercial shipping vessels are prohibited from carrying arms in international waters. But when it comes to dealing with the...
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NIST's Quantum Simulator Mimics Hundreds of Qubits Interacting
A Layer of Super-Cooled Beryllium Ions Can Act as a Quantum System Simulator Britton/NIST In a case that's somewhat chicken-and-egg, one of the many reasons computer scientists and physicists are...
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Honda Cars Warns You If Your Driving Style Is Likely to Cause Traffic Jams
Honda's Scheme for Reducing Gridlock by Encouraging Better Driving Behaviors via PhysOrg While we wait for our self-driving cars of the future to autonomously deliver us from gridlock forever, Honda is...
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