Here’s something you don’t see everyday—or even every 15 years for that matter. These towering structures of ice and rock on the edge of Saturn’s middle rings are an incredible and rarely-captured sight visible only during the planet’s equinox. Read more…
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Saturn’s rings contain soaring towers of ice
The question of just how an ancient civilization—without the help of modern technology—moved the 2.5 ton stones that made up their famed pyramids has long plagued Egyptologists and mechanical engineers alike. But now, a team from the University of Amsterdam believes they’ve figured it out, even though the solution was staring them in the face all along. Read more…
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Scientists Discovered the Egyptian Secret to Moving Huge Pyramid Stones
It’s been a while since we last heard of a software update for Glass and now I guess we know why. The team over at Mountain View has been busy updating the face-computer to run on the latest version of Android (4.4.2 a.k.a. KitKat). Read more…
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Latest Update Brings KitKat to Google Glass
In Compton last year, police began quietly testing a system that allowed them to do something incredible: Watch every car and person in real time as they ebbed and flowed around the city. Every assault, every purse snatched, every car speeding away was on record—all thanks to an Ohio company that monitors cities from the air. Read more…
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Police Are Testing a "Live Google Earth" To Watch Crime As It Happens
We’ve known that most critters try to avoid power lines, but until recently, scientists were pretty much in the dark when it came to why . Now, it turns out that to animals, power lines and pylons look like terrifying bands of glowing, flashing bursts of light . Read more…
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Animals See Power Lines as Terrifying Bursts of Light
Smart rings may seem like something from an impossible (or at least highly unlikely ) vision of the future, but surprisingly enough, tech you can wrap around your little finger isn’t anything new. Just take this itty-bitty abacus from the 17th century as proof. Read more…
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This Wearable Abacus Is Basically the World’s Oldest Smart Ring
They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but when it comes to an underwater pipeline carrying oil or natural gas, staying ahead of leaks can actually help prevent a billion dollar cleanup. So researchers at GE are developing an underwater submersible that uses X-rays to check pipelines for signs of corrosion and deterioration before something catastrophic happens. Read more…
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Pipe Crawling Underwater X-Ray Machines Find Leaks Before They Happen
Kaboom. And fireball. And ground shake. And shockwave. And boom. AtomCentral shows us some amazingly clear HD footage restored from 1953 of the Atomic Cannon test from Upshot-Knothole Grable. In the video below, you can see cars, jeeps, buses and tanks against the backdrop of the ginormous blast’s initial burst and shockwave. The blast eventually swallows everything. Read more…
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Incredibly clear footage shows the blast effect of 1953 atomic bomb
If you’re not the type to tiptoe around the truth with your kids, Rachel Ciavarella’s incredibly-detailed plush anglerfish ‘toy’ called Morris is the perfect way to give your children a somewhat disturbing crash course in anatomy. Read more…
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Teach Kids Frank Lessons About Anatomy With This Inside-Out Anglerfish
Part of the joy of preparing meals while camping is that you don’t have to worry about keeping everything neat and tidy. But the last thing you want to do is put a scorched and filthy grill in the trunk of your clean car. So Front Runner’s solution lets you simply strap it to your vehicle’s spare tire when it’s time to head out. Read more…
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A Campfire Grill That Hugs Your Spare Tire For Easy Storage