According to Duke Engineering, their axial engine is the most efficient and lightest engine you can put in boats, light aircrafts, and generators—the mechanical engine of the (near) future! Maybe. I don’t know if their claims are true and I don’t really care. I just love watching it in action in this eternal gif. Read more…
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This is the weirdest engine I have ever seen
When MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte says that humans will be able to learn an entire language by eating a pill, you better listen. In this new TED Talk, Negroponte shows all the times he was right predicting the future in the 1970s and 1980s even while people laughed at him. Here’s what he thinks that will happen next. Read more…
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You’ll be able to learn a whole language eating a pill in the future
A new research paper just published in the scientific journal Plos One brings us new fuel for nightmares: Spiders not only eat other insects but also kill and eat fish often much larger than them. And it’s not only one or two species, but many species at a global scale. Read more…
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Scientists discover that spiders kill and eat fish too
I never imagined I was going to see something like this: A video of a star bursting in space, illuminating the interstellar dust around it at the speed of light. This is not a computer simulation. It’s an actual time-lapse video taken over four years by the Hubble—and scientists don’t know its origin yet. Read more…
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I can’t believe this Hubble’s star explosion time-lapse video is real
She’s got love in her eyes. Literally. A Redditor says that her mom has a blood vessel that spells love in her eye. Supposedly it’s not some crazy wacky tattoo either, the blood vessel is just more pronounced than usual and shaped in a way that we would recognize. At least it doesn’t say something awful! Read more…
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Woman has ‘love’ written with a blood vessel in her eye
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
This it it. This Tron-inspired design will be NASA’s next generation spacesuit—the first that actually looks from the future and not a variation of the original 1960s suits from the Apollo program. With its glass 360-degree view and integrated Heads Up Display ready to detect xenomorphs, it would look right at home in any sci-fi movie. Read more…
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NASA reveals its next generation Tron spacesuit
It must be the combination of the steel grey palette, the black accents, and their patches and rivets, but these two A-10s look especially cool and futuristic to me in this photo. Like they can be piloted by this guy: Read more…
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The A-10 Warthog looks especially awesome and futuristic in this photo
This is an induction heater, an electromagnetic thingamajig that can make metal to levitate and—with enough power—melt it. In this case, the metal is a 2.6-gram piece of aluminum that reaches a temperature of 2192 F (1200 C) before the machine is turned off. Read more…
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Watch a piece of aluminum levitate and melt at the same time
Check out the incredible footage of a ball breaking a glass filmed at an uncanny 10 million frames per second by the HyperVision HPV-X Camera of Shimadzu, a Japanese corporation that makes precision instruments, measuring instruments and medical equipment. Read more…
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Holy crap, watch a ball breaking glass at 10 million frames per second