WEIRD SCIENCE
Franky Zapata piloting the Flyboard Air at high speed in 2016. Zapata Racing – By Loz Blain 2022 May 29 – Ah, those magnificent men in their flying machines. They go up, diddly-up-up. They go down, diddly-own-down. French sky-surfer and Green Goblin lookalike Franky …
Researchers in Japan have broken the data transmission speed record. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2022 Jun 01 – Researchers in Japan have clocked a new speed record for data transmission – a blistering 1.02 petabits per second (Pb/s). Better yet, the breakthrough was …
A section of the seagrass meadow that’s now been found to be the largest plant in the world. University of Western Australia – By Michael Irving 2022 May 31 – Researchers have discovered what seems to be the largest plant in the world – …
Direct sound printing uses ultrasound to create microscopic oscillating bubbles, which in turn cause resin to solidify at specific locations. Depositphotos – By Ben Coxworth 2022 May 31 – 3D printing typically involves depositing layers of molten plastic, laser-melting powdered metal, or using UV …
Researchers at the QuTech collaboration have managed to teleport quantum information between two non-adjacent nodes for the first time. Marieke de Lorijn for QuTech – By Michael Irving 2022 May 26 – Scientists in the Netherlands have made a major step towards quantum computer …
Starliner parachutes down in New Mexico. Boeing – By David Szondy 2022 May 25 – Boeing’s Starliner passenger spacecraft has successfully returned to Earth. At 4:49 pm MDT, the uncrewed capsule landed at the US Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico at …
Monkeypox causes lesions that resemble pus-filled blisters, which eventually scab over. CDC/Getty Images – By Rodney E. Rohde, Regents’ Professor of Clinical Laboratory Science, Texas State University Published: 2022 May 20 – On 2022 May 18, Massachusetts health officials and the Centers for …
These tiny crab robots can be remote controlled by using heat to deform shape-memory alloys. Northwestern University – By Loz Blain 2022 May 25 – Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois have demonstrated the world’s smallest remote-controlled walking robot, at just half a millimeter …
The Stryker combat vehicle with the Raytheon laser weapon installed. Raytheon – By David Szondy 2022 May 24 – Using a 50-kW high-energy laser weapon, a US Army Stryker combat vehicle acquired, tracked, targeted, and defeated multiple 60-mm mortar rounds and other threats during …
ESA / Applications / Observing the Earth / FutureEO / Swarm – 2022 May 23 – While volcanic eruptions and earthquakes serve as immediate reminders that Earth’s insides are anything but tranquil, there are also other, more elusive, dynamic processes happening deep down …
