WEIRD SCIENCE
David Szondy – The new quantum radar would negate the near-invisibility of stealth aircraft like the B-2 Spirit bomber (Credit: USAF) Stealth technology may not be very stealthy in the future thanks to a US$2.7-million project by the Canadian Department of …
David Szondy – Volumetric printing replaces layering with a process that creates the entire object simultaneously (Credit: LLNL) How do you create complex 3D-printed objects in seconds, instead of hours or days? A team of scientists and engineers led by Lawrence Livermore …
by Mike Colagrossi – 55 Cancrie, or “Hellfire Earth”. All pictures nasa.gov. . Exoplanets are planets that lie beyond our own solar system and revolve around other stars many light years away. In the past two decades, thousands have been discovered, most of …
Paul Ridden – The ATLIS VTOL autonomous drone is being designed for long range cargo hauling (Credit: Aergility). Florida’s Aergility has spent the last few years developing and testing a new kind of vertical take-off and landing aircraft (VTOL) called the ATLIS. The …
Michael Irving – An artist’s impression of a collision between the Milky Way and a smaller dwarf galaxy, such as that which occurred about eight to 10 billion years ago (Credit: V. Belokurov (Cambridge, UK) based on an image by ESO/Juan Carlos …
Michael Irving – Scientists have detected beams of antimatter being blasted towards the ground in the eyewall of a hurricane (Credit: razlomov/Depositphotos) Although Hurricane Patricia was one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, that didn’t stop the National Oceanic and Atmospheric …
Michael Irving – Researchers have found that 85 percent of asteroids in the inner belt could have come from just five or six ancient minor planets (Credit: University of Florida) They might seem like boring old rocks, but asteroids and meteorites have …
By Gerard West – There are many reasons why crickets chirp to one another. It is a way for them to communicate. Crickets will chirp to warn each other of approaching danger. Male crickets chirp to scare off other males from getting the …
Loz Blain – A new steel-based membrane could ressurect a 50-year-old battery technology, leading to cheap grid-level power storage and an increase in renewable energy use (Credit: Illustration modified from an original image by Felice Frankel). One of the primary problems with …
Loz Blain – The GXV-T program aims to move away from heavy armored vehicles in a quest for battlefield superiority, using some unique ideas (Credit: DARPA) Back in 2014, DARPA announced the launch of its Ground X-Vehicle Technology (GXV-T) program, an initiative designed …
