Everyone loves talking about 3D printing , but now it’s really hitting the big time: Rolls-Royce has decided that it’s going to use the technology to help make its airplane engines. Read more…
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Rolls-Royce Is Going to 3D Print Its Airplane Engine Parts
Not everything in Russia is crazy people in cars, anti-gay mobs and a Nazi government with no respect to human rights. Here’s something that I wish we had: a machine that gives you a subway ticket for 30 squats in less than two minutes. Read more…
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You can buy subway tickets with squats in Moscow
At the start of this week, the European Space Agency’s Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer satellite (GOCE) fell to Earth . This is what it looked like as it happened. Read more…
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This Is What a 2,000-Pound Satellite Falling to Earth Looks Like
Words cannot express how giddily excited we are by this news: you can finally get Calvin and Hobbes ebooks for the first time . Goodbye, weekend. Read more…
Paranoid much, China? Cause it sure as hell looks like it when you have more than sixty security cameras strapped onto a single street light. This photograph, taken at an intersection in Shanghai by NetEase , hilariously captures the personal privacy be damned, big brother monster attitude that everyone imagines China to have. It’s perfect, really. Read more…
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China installed more than 60 security cameras on one street light
A new airport complex is taking shape in Abu Dhabi, where roughly 12, 000 construction workers are on-site daily to finish the massive structure, whose floor area is larger than that of the Pentagon. According to UAE paper The National , it will take 84, 000 tons of steel to build the structure’s dramatic arches, designed by New York-based KPF . Read more…
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Abu Dhabi’s Massive New Airport Terminal Rises In the Desert
Researchers from the University of Iowa have developed a remarkable new procedure for regenerating missing or damaged bone. It’s called a “bio patch” — and it works by sending bone-producing instructions directly into cells using microscopic particles embedded with DNA. Read more…
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A bioengineered patch that regrows damaged bones inside the body
Normally, intentionally elongated or flattened skulls are associated with ancient Mesoamerican cultures . But this exquisite specimen, which dates back some 1, 500 years, was recently found at a dig in Alsace, France. Read more…
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French Archaeologists Discover Beautifully Preserved Deformed Skull
This image has all the new worlds discovered by Kepler. The total is now 3, 538. The big balls are actually stars. The planets are the tiny black dots in front of them, shown to scale. It’s ridiculous. Read more…
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All the new exo-planets discovered by Kepler in one single image
Keiichi Matsuda is excited about this invention and I can’t blame him: A solid table that reproduces a virtual version of anything that you put under its sensors—in realtime. You can see how it reproduces the hands moving in the clip above, but there’s more: Read more…
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This morphing table can create a virtual version of you in realtime