This is quite the facinating story about a man named John Coster-Mullen that while driving his semi truck attempts to plumb the inner workings of America’s first atomic bomb named ‘Little Boy’. Sounds like a strange hobby to some but to me it represents a pure ‘knowledge for the sake of knowledge’ motivation that is […]
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Nothing but fun family time here. Everyone loves to build tiny replicas of Medieval siege machines! Let’s not forget that it’s also a great way to expand your mind…
A catapult project gives students a chance to see that science and engineering really can be fun, and it’s a lot more than just numbers […]
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Simply cool, who would have thought you could get x-rays out of tape? Chalk one up for triboluminescence!
X-rays emitted from ordinary Scotch tape
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Simply cool, who would have thought you could get x-rays out of tape? Chalk one up for triboluminescence!
It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers.
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Now, if your like me you no matter what something does you think that it might be able to do just a bit more. Well, it looks like I’m not alone.
Milk can be turned into plastic; with the twist of a screw any FM radio can eavesdrop on aircraft broadcasts; a radio can be […]
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Not that I think that doing this with the intent to harm people is very nice at all, I have to admit that figuring out what in essence causes a ‘BSoD‘ in humans is impressive. Reminds me of ICE in the William Gibson books.
This incident is quite possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical […]
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This is a bit old news but if you act soon you can snatch one of these up before they are gone. This is a cool little hack to repurpose the head mounted display from a remote controlled car for better purposes. The procedure is simple, get a power supply (some batteries) pop the back […]
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