Dec 27
Rolls-Royce may not have a fleet of autonomous luxury cars on the road yet, but the ship-building engineering group that bears the same name is predicting self-piloting drone ships within … Continue reading
Dec 27
iPhone and iPad shoppers were more than five times more active than their Android counterparts in online sales on Christmas Day, researchers claim, spending nearly twice as much per order … Continue reading
Dec 24
Being more of a tropical person, I’m not the sort you would catch exploring the Arctic wilds. However, there are a number of researchers out there that do spend time doing sciencey stuff in the Arctic. Last summer a group of researchers exploring Canada’s Ward Hunt Island made a very cool discovery.
The scientists happened on a manmade rock cairn and inside the rocks was a bottle with a letter in it. When they pulled the letter out of the bottle, they realized it was from an American geologist named Paul T. Walker and he had left the letter behind in 1959.
The letter was no cry for help, rather it was a request for anyone who came upon the letter to take a scientific measurement and forward it to Walker and a colleague for their records. The request was to measure the distance of a rock formation from the face of the glacier nearby. When the letter was placed in the rocks, it was 168 feet from the glacier face. When the letter was found this summer, the rock was about 333 feet from the glacier face.
Sadly, Walker never received the information he requested. Shortly after he placed the letter in the rock formation he suffered a seizure and was flown out of the Arctic and died in a hospital a few months later.
Interestingly enough, after discovering the note, the explorers returned the message to its bottle – adding their own note they hope may someday be found in the future.
[via CBC.ca]
Dec 24
Samsung’s KNOX security system on the Galaxy S 4 has a significant security hole that could allow data believed secure to be intercepted, including messages, browser use, and files transferred, … Continue reading
Dec 24
Researchers from UC Berkeley are working hard on making robots that are incredibly strong. Researchers at the university laboratory have created artificial robot muscles that could give a robot 1000 … Continue reading
Dec 23
Get your Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind references ready, because scientists have just figured out a way to erase bad memories using—you guessed it—electroshock therapy. Get ready for on-demand forgetting. It’s a real thing now.
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Dec 23
The world may be oohing and awing over all the wonderful uses we’re finding for graphene, but there’s another super-material vying for the spotlight. Vanadium dioxide might eventually become a household name because in addition to revolutionizing electronics, researchers have now discovered it can be used as an artificial muscle 1,000 times stronger than our own.
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Dec 23
Finding a message in a bottle in a remote part of the world is something that you might think would only happen in a work of fiction. However, that is … Continue reading
Dec 22
When a study gets published and its results enter our collective body of scientific knowledge it feels like it’s there to stay. But without the raw data behind the study, it’s hard to revisit the research and use it to take new ideas to the next level. Which is why it’s such a problem that old data is disappearing.
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Dec 19
Two MIT planetary scientists, Julien de Wit and Sara Seager, have published research showing how it is possible to determine the weight of an exoplanet using the surrounding starlight. Not … Continue reading
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