Jun 25
27 Radiant Photos Of Rust
Posted in: Today's ChiliRust is the worst enemy of any classic car owner, but it’s also evidence of nature in the industrial age—an urban rot
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Jun 25
Astronomers have a good day when they detect one planet inside a star system’s habitable zone. A mostly European team of researchers must be giddy, then, as it just found three of those ideally located planets around Gliese 667C. The group has combined existing observations from the ESO’s Very Large Telescope with new HARPS telescope data to spot the trio of super-Earths, all of which could theoretically support liquid water. As long as the discovery holds up, it may have a big impact on exoplanetary research: it shows both that three super-Earths can exist in one system and that more than one survivable planet can orbit a low-mass star. We can only do so much with the findings when Gliese 667C is 22 light-years away, but it’s good to learn that space could be more human-friendly than we once thought.
Source: ESO
Jun 25
We’ve known for awhile that certain illnesses can have a very, er, special smell for the olfactory-inclined
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Jun 25
It’s difficult to believe it, but it took just three days marinating in a sugar-water solution to turn the opaque tissue pictured on the left into the clear example on the right.
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Jun 24
Hubble has produced some spectacular images of space, but few of them are as interesting as the one it has recently taken of two galaxies colliding into each other, known amongst enthusiasts as “The Penguin.” The galaxies get their name from their conjoined, uncanny resemblance to a penguin or some type of bird standing upright,
Jun 24
There’s plenty of precedent for echolocation in the natural world: bats can navigate based on the echo of their chirrups; and blind humans, at least anecdotally, sometimes develop remarkable sound-based spatial skills. But using sound to accurately map a space in three dimensions? That’s new.
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Jun 24
The past two days have been full of what’s called “Supermoon” sightings due to the fact that the Earth has been as close to our moon as it’s going to be all year long. While the past two days have brought on a flood of “oh my goodness that’s the biggest moon I’ve ever seen”
Jun 24
"Grandfather of modern gaming" may not be PONG’s only legacy. Not for long, anyway, as a new one is quickly taking form. At Duke University, PhD student David Schwarz has added a new layer to the legendary game: brainwave control.
Jun 24
Just a few days ago, we reported that Independence Day 2 would be arriving on July 3, 2015, but that was only half of the curiosity. Many of us have been wondering who out of the original cast would show up for the sequel of the classic 90s sci-fi thriller. It turns out that Will
Jun 24
Custom-built Katamari controller is made from yoga ball, DualShock 2 pad, power of the cosmos (video)
Posted in: Today's Chili
Conventional wisdom would suggest that making a for-real Katamari Damacy ball would be tricky, but that didn’t stop Chris McInnis, Ron LeBlanc and Tom Gwozdz from taking up the challenge. As part of the Nuit Blanche festival in London, Canada (which also included some building-projected gaming), they were able to fashion their very own Katamari ball from a yoga ball, some stickers, wood, an Arduino microcontroller, several optical mice and a dissected DualShock 2 controller. See how it steers after the break.
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals, Science, Alt
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