http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svwSmNPhu5M&feature=share Space travel is a dangerous business. Astronauts are hurled into space in a tiny life support bubble. Contact with Earth is severed. Whatever they’ve got onboard is all they’ve got—period. But what if they could make tools and parts onboard? Singularity University Labs startup, Made In Space, believes 3D printing can provide just such... Continue Reading →
Want People to Eat Lab-Grown Meat? Make It Local and Artisanal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDCmLya-lZc Lab-created meat is the future of food, but people are still freaked out by it. But meeting your lab-grown meat before you eat it can help allay those fears, according to a Dutch researcher. The most common early reactions to the first lab-grown burger, which was made by a Dutch researcher in 2013, were... Continue Reading →
College students design home with $2 energy bills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CnbWe230A8 A family home with a minuscule energy bill? Yep — and thankfully it’s not just one big solar panel attached to a shoebox. A group of students from three Syracuse, N.Y.-area colleges designed a home that only racks up $2 in energy costs each month — and it’s a 1,925-square-foot craftsman-style beaut. The students... Continue Reading →
NASA announces winners of space apps competition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jizj1ybesck NASA has announced the five winners of its 2014 International Space Apps Challenge. The contest is an international "hackathon" aimed driving innovation for future space missions and to improve life on Earth. The categories are Earth Watch, Technology in Space, Human Spaceflight, Robotics and Asteroids. Over 8,000 individuals participated in the challenge at 95... Continue Reading →
Baltimore’s Solar-Powered Water Wheel Can Devour 50,000 Pounds of Harbor Trash Every Day
http://youtu.be/3Q_NCJdXtfo Trash isn't a pretty sight, but Baltimore's new Water Wheel actually makes collecting garbage look cool and fun. Powered by 30 solar panels and the water current, the Water Wheel Trash Inceptor can remove a whopping 50,000 pounds of trash a day--a rate that the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore hopes will make the harbor... Continue Reading →
Virtual reality for chickens would simulate a blissful free-range life
http://vimeo.com/95195054 Battery chickens don't have a particularly good life. They live in tiny cages, never getting to exercise, often attacking each other and developing health problems. It's tolerated because it allows for greater egg production -- although it's worth noting that some regions of the world are phasing out battery farms. Second Livestock -- a... Continue Reading →
Hunt for Alien Life May Focus on Water-Vapor Plumes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPb6Cb3tXpk The Hubble Space Telescope is famous for finding black holes. It can pick out thousands of galaxies in a patch of sky the size of a thumbprint. The most powerful space telescope ever built, the Hubble provided evidence that the universe is slowing down in its infinite rush into whatever lies beyond. But Hubble’s... Continue Reading →
13.7 Billion Years Of Galaxy Formation In 46 Seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y29RqyYdknw Galaxies are vast systems of planets, stars, gas, dust and dark matter bound together by gravity. Scientists estimate that there are around 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe, ranging in size from tens of millions of stars to one hundred trillion stars. The shape and composition of a galaxy is influenced by interactions... Continue Reading →
OpenWorm: A Digital Organism In Your Browser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r00FkkGFfrg OpenWorm is an international open science project to simulate the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans at the cellular level in silico. Although the long term goal is to model all 959 cells of the C. elegans, the first stage is to model the worm's locomotion by simulating the 302 neurons and 95 muscle cells. This bottom... Continue Reading →
13.7 Billion Years Of Galaxy Formation In 46 Seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y29RqyYdknw Galaxies are vast systems of planets, stars, gas, dust and dark matter bound together by gravity. Scientists estimate that there are around 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe, ranging in size from tens of millions of stars to one hundred trillion stars. The shape and composition of a galaxy is influenced by interactions... Continue Reading →
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