One year ago (and two days), the family of Neil Armstrong announced that this navy fighter pilot, test pilot, and astronaut passed away at the age of 82. Making known that Armstrong was a “reluctant American hero”, his family said that he “always believed he was just doing his job.” Neil Armstrong became the first […]
Science is awesome. And thanks to the internet age, it’s easy to be witness to that fact. For example? This beautiful image of the photomultiplier tubes in the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment detectors, which mesmerized millions when it started circulating online this week.
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Here’s something to bring up the next time you’re eating after being a winner winner: you don’t actually have to wash the raw chicken with water before you cook it. In fact, science is saying that it’s definitely worse to wash a chicken with water because you might spray all kinds of bacteria from the kitchen all over your kitchen, sink and yourself without even knowing. So yes, next time you’re eating chicken for dinner, just go straight to cooking. It may seem unsanitary but that’s actually the best way to kill the bacteria on a raw chicken. [DrexelUniv via Consumerist]
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We all know the world’s going to end at some point, and sure, maybe it’s not entirely "likely" to happen anytime soon—but better safe than sorry. So assuming you’ve already been working diligently on your underground, radiation-proof bunker, what’s going to happen when you need extra keys made with nary a (non-zombie) locksmith in sight? Fortunately, as Hack A Day shows us, there’s an easy, accurate enough way to make your very own spare keys with nothing more than some plaster, the sun, and a giant fresnel lens.
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Some people are just naturally good at cheating. That is, they’re born with a gene that allows them to take steroids, but pass traditional tests—without any of the designer masking agents that many athletes have turned to. And in a lot of leagues, that’s as good as a license to dope your brains out.
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Today I found out why our galaxy is called the Milky Way and what it’s called in other languages.
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In the aftermath of disasters, clean drinking water may be impossible to find. Now, a porous gel infused with silver nanoparticles is in development. The invention may change the way water purification happens. The gel sucks in contaminated water and squeezes out purified water in mere seconds.
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.
Does the idea of driverless cars make you queasy? Better get used to it: Researchers are predicting that more than 95 million autonomous cars could hit the road by 2035. But, speaking of cars we actually want to drive, Tesla Motors continued its banner year, as the Model S earned the highest safety score of any car ever tested. In other green transportation news, KAIST unveiled a new folding, electric micro car that can fit into just about any parking space. Copenhagen announced plans to launch the world’s most high-tech bike-sharing program, which will include bikes with GPS-enabled Android tablets. A grad student at the Royal College of Art recently produced plans for a 3D-printed car concept that actually assembles itself. But the form of urban transportation that looks like the most fun to ride is the Scrooser, a foot-powered scooter with an electric motor that zips around town at speeds of up to 15 MPH. And Vanmoof is set to release a new electric bike in 2014 that is already being billed as the world’s most intelligent commuter bike.
The sun just rose in Antarctica. And that’s kind of a big deal since it set back in May.
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When you think of the big bang, that cosmic explosion that jump-started the ever-expanding universe
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