This is not just your normal little walking robot. It uses genetic algorithms to discover new ways of moving on its own.
Luang Sathorn Mansion/Russian Embassy
This is eerie, I wonder what went on in the metal lined rooms. Were they to keep things in or out?
The vacant and mysterious Luang Sathorn Mansion and former Russian Embassy. See soundproof and metal-lined rooms, a labyrinth of windowless chambers, and rooms with no apparent way in…
Mount St. Helens From Space
Mt. St. Helens as seen from space, you can see the IR hot spots in the caldera.
This ASTER image of Mount St. Helens was captured one week after the March 8 ash and steam eruption, the latest activity since the volcano’s reawakening in September 2004. The new lava dome in the southeast part of the crater is clearly visible, highlighted by red areas where ASTER’s infrared channels detected hot spots from incandescent lava. The new lava dome is 500 feet higher than the old lava dome, and still growing. In this band combination, vegetation is green, snow is light blue, and bare rocks are tan.
Project: Annihilation
Now this is a prefect way to dispose of a broken electronic device. Her iTrip was broken and was replaced by Griffin Technology but they rewuested that she provide proof that the defective unit had been destroyed. This is where the rocket motors come in. 🙂
(BTW, you might want to check this out in a day or so, the site hase been Slashdot’ed)
Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Bone
Who would have though that this was possable? I hope that this turns out to be a real deal and not some publicity stunt, or worse some mars rock like preparation side effect.
A 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil dug out of a hunk of sandstone has yielded soft tissue, including blood vessels and perhaps even whole cells, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
Paleontologists forced to break the creature’s massive thighbone to get it on a helicopter found not a solid piece of fossilized bone, but instead something looking a bit less like a rock.
Any bets on when the first cookbook featuring dinosaur will come out?
Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Bone
First Membrane-free Alkaline Fuel Cell Built
I’m not sure if there is a moving part to this or not, still very cool.
The first membraneless alkaline fuel cell has been built by exploiting the way liquids do not mix in ultra-narrow channels. It could offer cheaper and more efficient fuel cells.
Doing away with membranes not only simplifies a fuel cell’s design, it has also enabled the first alkaline fuel cells to be built. These could potentially be 40% more efficient than the acidic units used today, says Paul Kenis of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois, US, who has developed the system.
First membrane-free alkaline fuel cell built
(Thank you special agent Greg for this information)