Monthly Archive: November 2018
David Szondy – – A small, ephemeral lagoon in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert (Credit: Carlos González-Silva/Provided). Water may be an essential element of life, but to the scarce microbes that inhabit the Mars-like Atacama Desert in Chile, it’s death. …
Ben Coxworth – RFIQ is based on a process known as “weak coupling” (Credit: MIT). Passive RFID (radio frequency identification) tags are small, inexpensive, battery-less labels that are already used to track and identify a wide variety of items. If MIT’s experimental RFIQ …
By Barry Neild – (CNN) — Some amazing archeological finds involve daring adventures into hidden tombs. Others — as is the case with the discovery of a beautiful new sphinx in Egypt — simply involve a spot of drainage. – The newly uncovered …
Michael Irving – New computer simulations have questioned the existence of dark energy, a so-far theoretical force that is said to be driving the expansion of the universe. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech). According to the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (Lambda-CDM) model, which is the current accepted standard for …
Rich Haridy – Two different configurations of the Monkeycycle (Credit: Monkeycycle). Grow bikes are nothing new in the children’s bicycle scene, however Monkeycycle is an extraordinarily modular new innovation designed to offer your child eight different configurations, morphing from a stroller for …
“These compounds are very similar.” By Peter Hess – Photo by Bernd Haynold – Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org. Move over, marijuana: Scientists have their eye on a THC-like psychoactive chemical found in the unassuming, lumpy Radula, a group of plants in …
Two massive clouds of dust in orbit around the Earth have been discussed for years and finally proven to exist. Scotty Hendricks – Hungarian astronomers have proven the existence of two “pseudo-satellites” in orbit around the earth. These dust clouds were first discovered …
Archeologists inch closer to identifying the first Americans. By Sarah Sloat – An indigenous woman in Ciudad Panamá, Panamá. The debate over who arrived in the New World first is a contentious one. Their identities aside, nobody can quite decide how those …
Paul Ridden – Biomega’s Sin electric CUV is due to go into production between 2021 and 2023 (Credit: Biomega). Denmark’s e-bike maker Biomega has unveiled its first four-wheel electric vehicle – the Sin crossover utility vehicle. The concept brings to mind Renault’s …
Ben Coxworth – Plans call for the Model J airship to be mainly computer-controlled (Credit: Egan Airships). It was just last year that we heard about the Plimp, a sort of plane/blimp/helicopter hybrid drone manufactured by Egan Airships. As was hinted at …
