Monthly Archive: November 2018
David Szondy – A new MIT plane is propelled via ionic wind (Credit: MIT). A team of MIT engineers has flown what was long thought impossible – a heavier than air craft that needs no moving parts for achieving powered lift. The 5-lb …
Large sections of the Great Wall of China are in urgent need of preservation work, but hard to reach. So drones are coming to the rescue. | http://ow.ly/rwnm30mHdTO #Drones #UAV #Photography #Archaeology #GreatWall #China
Loz Blain – – The Zapata Ezfly is a jet-powered flying Segway that it seems almost anyone can fly (Credit: Zapata). The Zapata Ezfly looks for all intents and purposes like a Segway of the sky. You stand on a small platform equipped …
Nick Lavars – – Sygiriya, the legendary “lion rock” in Sri Lanka, is an ancient village built in the sky (Credit: Dronestagram/jcourtial). Camera drones are not only getting better, they are also getting cheaper, giving more and more aspiring aerial photographers the …
Ben Coxworth – – The gas off-road version of the Comanche, with the optional long-travel independent front suspension package. While many people enjoy dirt-biking, they often can’t afford the truck or trailer necessary to transport the things. That’s why Stanford University aerospace …
Rich Haridy – – The wombat is the only animal in the world to produce square-shaped poop (Credit: wrangel/Depositphotos). Wombat poo has mystified scientists for years. The shy Australian marsupial is unique for being the only animal in the world to produce …
Termites were building these mounds when humans were building Egypt’s pyramids. By Sarah Sloat – This is an image of the mounds. Termite mounds typically outlive the colonies that built them, so it was doubly astonishing when thousands of insects were recently …
David Szondy – China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) achieved an electron temperature of over 100 million degrees Celsius in its core plasma (Credit: IPP). The day of clean, limitless energy from nuclear fusion has taken another step closer thanks to China’s Experimental Advanced …
Rich Haridy – Sensitivity to the bitterness of caffeine has been found to actually increase a person’s propensity to drink coffee (Credit: massonforstock/Depositphotos). Intriguing new research has revealed that people with a preference for drinking coffee over tea tend to display a genetic variant …
Michael Irving – The tardigrade shall inherit the Earth, according to a new study from Oxford and Harvard (Credit: rukanoga/Depositphotos). In about 5 billion years’ time, our Sun will use up its reserves of hydrogen and begin to cool down and expand, …
