Yep, you read that right. This drone can detect and avoid obstacles. It’s first commercial application: automatically identify illegally parked cars and provision parking tickets. Now all we need is better batteries.
Author: Sic
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Fusion power closer to reality
Advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical fusion reactor within the next 10 years. Stronger magnetic fields makes it possible to confine super hot plasma in a much smaller device than those previously envisioned.
via New design could finally help to bring fusion power closer to reality.
New research shows butterflies use nectar to drug unsuspecting ants with mind-altering chemicals. The Japanese oakblue butterfly (Narathura japonica) enlists the help of ants (Pristomyrmex punctatus) to stand guard and protect its growing caterpillars (pictured) from predators such as wasps and spiders.
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/08/butterflies-drug-ants-turn-them-bodyguards
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Abandoned Russian Space Shuttles
Check out what this photographer discovered in an abandoned building.
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Ageing process turned off in worms
with the switch disabled, the cells kept up their earlier level of resistance, making the worm better able to handle the wear and tear of growing older.
http://www.sciencealert.com/immortality-is-one-step-closer-as-scientists-turn-off-the-ageing-process-in-worms
NASA has just released one of the most stunning GIFs we’ve ever seen, and it sure does put our lives into some much-needed perspective. Watch to see the Moon’s far side, which faces away from us, as our little lunar satellite orbits in front of our planet. The whole thing was captured by the appropriately named EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) on board the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon
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Solar Windows Are A Thing
Removing reflections and even getting images from reflections. Amazing. Watch the youtube video.
IT IS the dream scenario for fighting climate change: a power station that delivers negative emissions. And it could be coming to the UK, helped along by the growth of forests in the American South and some handy holes beneath the North Sea.
The giant coal power station at Drax in Yorkshire, with its 12 cooling towers, is one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters. It sends some 23 million tonnes of carbon dioxide up its stacks each year, while supplying up to a tenth of the UK’s power.