This artist’s drawing shows what the newly discovered feathered dinos — the larger species with yellow on their snouts — might have looked like.
Credit: Brian Choo
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Cool Jobs: Wide World of Robots
By Ben
Snake robots built by Howie Choset’s team can twist in many directions and move — slithering, swimming — like their namesake animal.
Credit: Howie Choset
Shuffling Shenanigans
By Ben
Using math, a magician can figure out how to find one card in a deck or how many times to shuffle the deck to really mix it up. Credit: Julie Rehmeyer
SpaceX Commercial Rocket Blasts Off For International Space Station
By Nick
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/22/spacex-commercial-rocket-blasts-off-for-international-space-station/
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Lasers
The new HEAF gas gun.
https://www.llnl.gov/news/aroundthelab/2011/Apr/041411_heaf.html
Filmmakers Crash Boeing 727 For Scientific Experiment
By Emory
The Discovery Channel staged a test to find out how to design a plane that's better equipped to handle a crash. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/30/11471765-filmmakers-crash-boeing-727-for-scientific-experiment?lite
Losing Control Over Sugar
By Emory
Many sodas contain a sweetener called fructose. Scientists have shown how fructose can cause the body to produce excess amounts of insulin, a hormone used to control sugar in the blood.
Credit: Marlith/Wikimedia Commons
Rare Ocelot Photographed Near Sierra Vista
By Luca
A rare ocelot rests comfortably on a limb after being treed by dogs Tuesday in Southern Arizona's Huachuca Mountains.
COURTESY OF ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT
Edheads - The Compound Machine
Learn how forces and simple machines can work together to create The Compound Machine!
http://www.edheads.org/activities/odd_machine/index.shtml
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