Science is awesome, and new and interesting breakthroughs are always being made, so here's a thread to post any cool science articles you come across.
Computer Science/Robotics
Scientist Build a Robot That Can Learn and Adapt
DARPA and iRobot Make an Ooze-Bot
IBM's Supercomputer can Simulate a Cat's Brain
Physics
Chinese Scientists Have Made an Electromagnetic Blackhole that Absorbs Microwaves
LHC Begins Gathering Data, Sets Records
Space Exploration/Astronomy
Plasma Thruster Tested
Biology
New Detector Device Identifies Viruses/Bacteria Within 24 Hours
Other
Odd Robotic Spider-like Design
Cool/Interesting Science Articles
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Cool/Interesting Science Articles
Last edited by AidanAdv on Sun May 09, 2010 1:36 am, edited 1 time in total.
The Popular science site is offline. 
Well heres my contribution http://www.popularmechanics.com/science ... 32918.html
Its a plasma thruster that shoots plasma at 40km/sec how is that not awesome?
Well heres my contribution http://www.popularmechanics.com/science ... 32918.html
Its a plasma thruster that shoots plasma at 40km/sec how is that not awesome?
Not actually a news site article, but this deserves (re)mentioning regardless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klann_Linkage
Hook this unholy arrangement of five bars and seven joints up to a wheel, and you'll have a man-eating mechanical spider with no hydraulics or computers. You can try building a Klann machines with whatever you have lying around. Fiddle with the ratio of the bars' lengths to alter the spider's gait.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klann_Linkage
Hook this unholy arrangement of five bars and seven joints up to a wheel, and you'll have a man-eating mechanical spider with no hydraulics or computers. You can try building a Klann machines with whatever you have lying around. Fiddle with the ratio of the bars' lengths to alter the spider's gait.
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Violets are blue,
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Violets are blue,
I'll fuck you with a rake.[/quote]
WOOHOOO SCIENCE!
http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences ... ering-data
http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences ... ering-data
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Re: Cool/Interesting Science Articles
Herschels Returns Images of a Giant Star being Born
New Detector Device Identifies Viruses/Bacteria Within 24 Hours
IBM's Supercomputer can Simulate a Cat's Brain
New Detector Device Identifies Viruses/Bacteria Within 24 Hours
IBM's Supercomputer can Simulate a Cat's Brain
The walls have eyes: the shadows we throw are the shadows we try to throw off.
Re: Cool/Interesting Science Articles
In this thread, Aidan properly demonstrates valid revival of an old thread. No necro warning for you!
Even though a new thread probably would have been preferable.
Even though a new thread probably would have been preferable.
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Re: Cool/Interesting Science Articles
I would prefer to continue using this one so I can make an index of articles in the first post, but if you rather I start a new thread I will.Arcalane wrote:In this thread, Aidan properly demonstrates valid revival of an old thread. No necro warning for you!
Even though a new thread probably would have been preferable.
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Re: Cool/Interesting Science Articles
I find some of the images returned from Herschel stunning. Everyone in the Cardiff Physics department is going ape-shit because they designed one of the detectors on it. Anyway I've applied to do a 3rd year project on analysing brand new Hershel ATLAS results which I'm really looking forward to. By the end of it I should have made a detailed skymap of thousands of galaxies, though sadly I won't be touching cool stuff like star birth and supernovas.