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6 Things to Know About NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter | NASA Ingenuity features four specially made carbon-fiber blades, arranged into two rotors that spin in opposite directions at around 2,400 rpm – many times faster than a passenger helicopter on … Continue reading Mars landing 2021.2.18
New global ‘wind atlas’ propels sustainable energy — ScienceDaily Wind energy scientists have released a new global wind atlas – a digital compendium filled with documented extreme wind speeds for all parts of the world – to help engineers select … Continue reading wind atlas, cubesat, saildrone
SpaceX Dragon Capsule to Make First of Its Kind Science Splashdown | NASA The large amount of science returning to Earth on this mission is possible thanks to upgrades to the SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft, which has double the powered … Continue reading dancing robots, experiments from space
Cool Jobs | World Science Festival Meet the coolest group of scientists with the weirdest and most fascinating jobs on the planet and beyond. Imagine exploring the Amazon river to dig up a rare breed of leeches, heading into space … Continue reading gears, plastic, LED lights
UV-emitting LED lights found to kill coronavirus: Finding suggests technology can be installed in air conditioning, vacuum, and water systems Researchers have shown that the coronavirus can be killed efficiently, quickly, and cheaply using ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs). They … Continue reading 2020 gifts, books
Researchers 3D-printed a cell-sized tugboat | Engadget Researchers 3D-printed a cell-sized tugboat Physicists at Leiden University in the Netherlands have 3D printed what could be the world’s smallest boat, a test object known as Benchy. At 30 micron… Raptor-inspired drone … Continue reading simple machines, mask expressions
Signals from distant stars connect optical atomic clocks across Earth for the first time: Transportable radio telescopes could provide gl… Using radio telescopes observing distant stars, scientists have connected optical atomic clocks on different continents. The results were… EngineerGirl – … Continue reading plastic-eating enzymes, soft 3D printing, …
How To Build A 20-Foot Bi-Plane Glider “A Practical Handbook on the Construction of a Bi-planeGliding Machine, Enabling an Intelligent Readerto Make His First Step in the… The Boy Electrician “Practical Plans for ElectricalApparatus for work and play, with an … Continue reading biofabrication, chintz, micro-LEDs, …
Brains on! A podcast for kids & curious adults A poop emoji pillowPoop Party: Answers to your poo questionsJed Kim, host of the new podcast Million Bazillion!Introducing: Million Bazil… Women in engineering 2020 | The Guardian ” ‘I love being … Continue reading remote, recycle, xReality
Rope Materials | Animated Knots by Grog Cotton:History: Cotton is included here for completeness. Not as strong as hemp, it is a poor substitute when strength is required…. Solar Orbiter Returns First Data, Snaps Closest Pictures of the Sun | … Continue reading questions, NASA and knots
water management – engineering 4 kids Water is fundamental to life. Yet, eleven per cent of the global population — 783 million people, remains without access to an improved… Multifunctional porous carbon fibers show significant promise in capacitive desalination — … Continue reading water
Gorgeous F160 mountain bike is milled from a single aluminum block Each frame begins as a 70-kg (154-lb) slab of 7075 aluminum, which isn’t weldable but is very stiff. That slab gets machined into eig… Water-filled windows could both heat … Continue reading electric planes, water windows, vision
A good egg: Robot chef trained to make omelettes — ScienceDaily A team of engineers have trained a robot to prepare an omelette, all the way from cracking the eggs to plating the finished dish, and ref… Kirigami grips could … Continue reading rockets, robot chefs
Paper Roller Coasters Standard TemplatesA digital version of the directions with over ninety color photographs, and eleven templates suitable for printing onto… Activity: The Most Delicious Mine | Royal Ontario Museum minerals were produced by the Earth. We interact with … Continue reading @ home, virtual visits
Faster-degrading plastic could promise cleaner seas — ScienceDaily To address plastic pollution plaguing the world’s seas and waterways, chemists have developed a new polymer that can degrade by ultra… Ultraviolet LEDs prove effective in eliminating coronavirus from surfaces and, potentially, air and water — ScienceDaily provide a low-cost, chemical-free and convenient way to sanitize public, retail, personal and medical spaces,Researchers are developing u… The best material for homemade face masks may be a combination of two fabrics — ScienceDaily tightly woven fabrics, such as cotton, can act as a mechanical barrier to particles, whereas fabrics that hold a static charge, … Continue reading bioplastic, UV LED
