Finding out the distance from the stars to Earth may seem like a huge task at hand. And don’t get me wrong, it is. However, in this video by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, they breakdown how scientists measure the Universe in very simple terms using somewhat simple math.
It’s called “Space Drink” or AS10, and it was created by NASA scientists to protect astronauts from the harmful radiation of the sun. According to NASA and new research from scientists at the University of Utah, drinking the Space Drink will provide noticeable reduction in facial wrinkles and signs of reduction in aging.
In the movie Vanilla Sky starring Tom Cruise (pictured inset), Cruise’s character suffers an accident leaving his face deformed. To cope, he signs up for a futuristic program that does cryonic suspension placing people in a lucid dream state, meaning, their minds are are in a controlled dream which feels like reality. New technology called Remee claims to be able to do something similar; allowing people to control their dreams.
An international team of scientists from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Sydney and the City University of Hong Kong have created and tested a new portable, battery powered ‘flashlight’ that can kill bacteria with ease using plasma.
Getting to zero gravity happens in space, when you reach total weightlessness and you can literally float in air. NASA has long since replicated this here on Earth with their astronaut programs, even nicknaming their test machine the “Vomit Comet.” This may change if BRC Imagination Arts out of California gets their way, as they look to design and build the world’s first zero gravity roller coaster, which would be available to the general public.
The tornadoes here on Earth can exceed 150 mph and are treacherous, destroying everything in it’s path. Now just imagine a tornado that is 186,000 mph! That is what happened on the Sun, and researchers were able to capture it all on video.
If you can’t see an object around a corner with your own eyes, how do you expect a camera to be able to see and photograph an image of a hidden object? Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have figured out just how to do this.
“Without your bones, you would be a pile of goo lying on the floor.” I love that quote, which comes from a research scientist at Cambridge University. Scientists at Cambridge are looking for ways to use bone as an artificial material for things like implants, or other uses such as building material.
Check out this very neat functional prosthetic arm model made completely out of legos. As you can see in the video, it has hand and finger movements and can mimic a full range of motions of a human hand and arm. The robot lego arm was built by Max Shephard and he said that his goal was to build a bio-mimetic arm putting his “bio-medical engineering major to good use.” I would say he did a good job at that.
Getting a good signal for your wireless devices can almost always prove to be tricky. Depending on various factors including your location, cell towers, your mobile device and it’s antenna can all play a factor into getting a signal or no signal at all. I can think of one carrier that has had lots of signal issues *cough AT&T cough*.
The healing process for skin on burn victims can take months and months and is a painful arduous process, as you can imagine. The most widely used technique for severe skin burns is for doctors to harvest new skin, through grafting and growing the new skin over the burns to cover them which is a lengthy process.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a new type of self-healing polymer using autonomous healing techniques. Applying this self-healing technique to things like electronics will allow devices to ‘self-heal’ when a break occurs within the device with no human intervention at all.
Coding is always something I have been interested in. I am not a very good programmer in the least, but I like to write HTML and CSS codes. If I could improve my JavaScript and learn more coding languages, it would be something I would really be interested in. Part of the issue is finding the time to learn, and taking classes can be costly.
Something that society has grown more accustomed to when it comes to technological breakthroughs are man’s abilities to control things, such as machines or even robots. What if the roles were reversed, and man was controlled by machines? Sounds like something out of a movie, right? Well, this role reversal may not be that far off.
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