Watch as a spinning handle flips over and then over again. Ok maybe it is not as cool as the space bubble video.
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In a move that’s expected to save 300,000 tonnes of carbon emissions over the next 25 years, the state of Cochin on the southwest coast of India has transitioned its airport to 100 percent solar power.
via India establishes world’s first 100 percent solar-powered airport – ScienceAlert.
You’ve all seen the video from Mauricio, now he wants your help to save sharks.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153621649200955&set=vb.581295954&type=2&theater
A German company has just developed “robot ants” that could possibly transform the future of manual labor, showing extremely high efficiency in factories. Their invention, called BionicANT – which stands for Bionic Autonomous Networking Technologies, is manufactured through 3D printing. The robot is about the size of an adult hand and works imitating the cooperative behavior of the real insect.
http://interestingengineering.com/robotic-ants-could-be-the-future-workforce/
India’s Mars orbiter has sent home beautiful high-res, 3D images of the surface of Mars, and they make you feel like you’re flying right above the Red Planet. The photographs focus on the Ophir Chasma, a giant canyon on Mars that’s 62 km (38.5 miles) wide and 317 km (197 miles) long. In places, the canyon is 8 to 10 km (4.9 to 6.3 miles) deep – roughly eight times deeper than the North America’s Grand Canyon.
Ophir Chasma is part of Mars’s famous rift system, Valles Marineris. Appearing like a giant scar across the equator of Mars, Valles Marineris is one of the Solar System’s largest canyons, and although we’ve always seen it from afar in satellite and orbiter images, humans have never had the chance to see it like this before.
http://www.isro.gov.in/pslv-c25-mars-orbiter-mission/3d-portrayals-of-ophir-chasma-terrain
Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne have successfully developed the world’s most energy-efficient ‘artificial photosynthesis’ technique, which effectively mimics plant-based photosynthesis by using solar energy to convert water into hydrogen. The process, which creates hydrogen and oxygen by running an electric current through water, could be used to inexpensively power our homes and cars in just a few years, say the researchers.
via Artificial photosynthesis could power homes in a few years, say researchers – ScienceAlert.
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Later this year in the UK ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEV) are testing out wireless power transfer roadways that charge the car without the need to stop the vehicle.
Researchers in Germany have confirmed that hydrogen sulphide – the compound that gives rotten eggs and farts their distinctive odour – can conduct electricity without resistance at a record-breaking –70 °C. Smashing the previous record of around –110 °C, the research draws us ever-closer to the dream of a room-temperature superconductor that could one day change everything about how we generate and transmit energy.
via Hydrogen sulphide smashes superconductor temperature record – ScienceAlert.
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Sunlight can be brutal. It wears down even the strongest structures, including rooftops and naval ships, and it heats up metal slides and bleachers until they’re too hot to use. To fend off damage and heat from the sun’s harsh rays, scientists have developed a new, environmentally friendly paint out of glass that bounces sunlight off metal surfaces—keeping them cool and durable.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-08-glass-metal-roofs-cool-sunny.html#jCp