After finishing his work on the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine , director and animator George Dunning made a surreal science fiction short, 1970’s Moon Rock . Turn on this 10-minute cartoon in which an astronaut encounters the strange creatures of a bizarre alien world, and let yourself get swept up in its peculiar dream-like logic. More »
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Watch a trippy, alien-filled animation by the director of Yellow Submarine
By now, we all know that Mars was once home to water and may have even supported life . But what would the planet have looked like when it was lush and verdant? More »
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How Mars May Have Looked if It Was Covered in Water
One of the major problems with traveling through space is the need to carry fuel. Scientists have endlessly sought after sources of perpetual, portable fuel for spacecraft. But maybe that was the wrong approach? More »
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The Woodward Effect allows for endless supplies of starship fuel
If you think you’re having a rough morning after your New Year’s festivities, an Apple Store in Paris’ opera district is still trying to determine just how much hardware was stolen after four or five armed thieves robbed the store three hours after it had closed. More »
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Last Night Armed Robbers Stole Over $1 Million Worth Of Gear From a Paris Apple Store
Ever notice a dirty lotus leaf? How about a wet one? Of course you haven’t. Lotus leaves are so hydrophobic that they can be dry in a rainstorm, while still using the rainstorm to clean themselves off. Now nanotechnology developers are trying to mimic the Lotus Effect. More »
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Superhydrophobia spawns the Lotus Effect
Hackulous, the iOS piracy community behind the jailbreak app Installous, has suddenly shut down . Along with the community site, the Hackulous repository for the jailbreak store Cydia has also disappeared, rendering all of the community’s piracy tools dead. More »
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Pirated App Community Hackulous Suddenly Shuts Its Doors
If you’re a science hobbyist you probably don’t have access to actual liquid nitrogen (-320 degrees Fahrenheit) but you can make your own cryo-fluid from dry ice and rubbing alcohol that goes down to -110 degrees Fahrenheit, enough to instantly freeze flowers, cherries, and other popular liquid nitrogen demonstrations. More »
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DIY Cryogenic Fluid Made from Dry Ice and Rubbing Alcohol Performs Most Liquid Nitrogen Demonstrations
The amount of people in the whole world is pretty wildly unfathomable. For that matter, even a subset like just the 300,000,000 or so that live in the United States can be hard to wrap your head around. This interactive map by Brandon M-Anderson helps by showing one dot for each of them . It’s pretty wild. More »
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This Crazy Map Has One Dot for Every Person in the United States
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The Soviets Made a Hobbit Movie In 1985. It’s So Terrible it’s Incredible.
In November of 2011, American commercial airlines consumed 48.3 million gallons of fuel— every day —and paid a total of $49.8 billion that month to do so. And with increasingly tight operating budgets, fuel efficiency has quickly become a primary concern for the airlines. Boeing thinks one possible solution is its new plug-in hybrid jet concept that burns 70 percent less gas per flight with the help of the local power grid. More »
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Boeing’s Concept SUGAR Plane Plugs In Like a Prius