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Self-balancing, omnidirectional big red balls bike

The completed omnidirectional self-balancing bike built by James Bruton.  XRobot  View 7 Images – By Joe Salas 2025 Jan 25 – James Bruton is a serial crazy-contraption inventor, from a Lego longboard to a self-balancing mecanum-wheeled “Screw bike.” Now he’s done it again with …

 

Why is the sky blue?

Light at the blue end of the rainbow is scattered more efficiently than the other colors. shomos uddin/Moment via Getty Images – By Daniel Freedman, Dean of the College of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics & Management, University of Wisconsin-Stout Published: 2025 Jan 20 – …

Mystery of Summer-killing volcano solved

The caldera of Zavaritskii volcano.  Oleg Dirksen/University of St. Andrews – By David Szondy 2025 Jan 19 – A climactic mystery about a year that gave Summer a deadly pass may have been solved. Using new ice core techniques, scientists have concluded that the …