GE announces first FAA approved 3D-printed engine part
• GizmagWe've only just begun to see the huge impact 3D-printing technology will have on manufacturing, and the aerospace industry is a prime example.
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These Two Students Created A Device That Puts Out Fires With Sound Waves
• True ActivistFire is a beautiful, terrifying, and captivating beast. Licking the essence of what it desires before it consumes it whole, it's a force of nature to be reckoned with – and also handled with caution for obvious reasons.
Oil-trapping mesh could be used to clean up oil spills
• GizmagAs we approach the fifth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, scientists are still trying to develop better ways of removing oil from water. Now, researchers at The Ohio State University believe that they may be onto something.
Lost your Android phone? Just type "find my phone" into Google
• http://www.gizmag.comLosing your phone can happen easily. Unfortunately, finding it again can often be not so easy.
SpaceX To Attempt Revolutionary Falcon 9 Rocket Landing Today
• http://www.popsci.comThe Falcon 9 rocket is at its launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida. Its companion, the autonomous floating barge ship "Just Read The Instructions," is in its more or less stable catching position in the Atlantic Ocean.
The LHC Has Broken Its Own Particle Acceleration World Record
• http://motherboard.vice.comOn April 5, after two years of refurbishment and upgrades, the Large Hadron Collider officially went back online: two proton beams firing in opposite directions around a 27-kilometer ring with an initial "injection energy" of 450 GeV, or about three
NASA adding to list of CubeSats flying on first SLS mission
• http://spaceflightnow.comWith room for 11 small shoebox-sized CubeSats on the first test flight of NASA's behemoth Space Launch System, agency officials have turned to scientists, industry and students to fill the slots in time for launch in 2018.
This Guy Says He Can Make 20-Year-Old Rum in 6 Days
• WiredThe whiskey renaissance has the world clamoring for well-aged hooch, but the so-called brown spirits--whiskey, brandy, rum--have one widely-publicized problem.
The Building Blocks of Life Aren't Unique to Our Corner of the Galaxy
• MotherboardFor the first time ever, astronomers have discovered complex organic molecules in an infant solar system, providing yet more proof that the ingredients for life are sprinkled liberally across the universe.
Cern's Large Hadron Collider restarts with sights set on dark matter
• The GuardianCern confirms successful restart of world's largest and most powerful atom smasher following upgrade, raising hopes of a 'new era for science'
2016 Nissan Maxima keeps an eye on drowsy drivers
• GizMagNissan's DAA is based on the premise that most drivers don't just zonk out without warning – they show gradual deterioration in performance that can be detected before the situation becomes dangerous.
3D-Printed Kidney Tissue Is Here
• http://motherboard.vice.comJust like you would hope, something very cool was revealed at the 2015 Experimental Biology conference in Boston: the biomedical company Organovo showed off its technique for 3D printing human kidney tissue.
Neil deGrasse Tyson's best comebacks to your crazy uncle's anti-science woo
• http://www.rawstory.comThe Agnostic Atheist Anti-Theist (Agatan) Foundation has released on YouTube the first of what will likely be many compilations of "The Best Neil deGrasse Tyson Arguments and Comebacks."
Real Tragedy of 'Science': Public Faith Declines as Fakery Grows
• Daily BellScience saves us?
Solar-assisted, volcanic-composite sailing yacht navigating world's toughest waters
• http://www.gizmag.comCarbon fiber has established itself as a wonder material in vehicle construction, with its mix of low weight and high strength being prized for many of the world's most advanced vehicles of land, sea and air.
Gold and other valuable metals may be harvested from sewage
• http://www.gizmag.comMining operations tend not be very good for the environment, nor does the disposal of treated solid waste that still contains potentially-toxic metals. Now, however, scientists are looking into taking that waste and harvesting its trace amounts of me
Scientists developing healthier, better-tasting chocolate
• http://www.gizmag.comGood news if you're hooked on chocolate. Researchers from Ghent University in Belgium and the University of Ghana have developed a new technique for making chocolate that results in it being both healthier and more flavorful.
The Secret Life of the Aluminum Can, a Feat of Engineering
• http://www.wired.comWhen was the last time you paused between sips of your favorite soda and wondered about that can in your hand? If you're like most people, the answer is likely never.
That Boeing Force Field? It Probably Won't Ever Work
• WiredBoeing has filed a patent for something that could possibly be called a force field, but it's not. From the patent, it's a " Method and system for shockwave attenuation via electromagnetic arc."
Earth's Most Powerful Physics Machine Gets Back in Action
• Wired"It's like having a new accelerator, really," Dominguez says. The increased power will mean more violent collisions that might create bigger, even rarer particles.
Precision planetary lander technology tested by NASA
• http://www.gizmag.comAimed at developing new systems for landing on Mars and other planets with much greater precision, a new imaging landing system and algorithm were tested using the demonstration vehicle on two successful flights.
World's first plasmonic nanostructure recording could produce storage breakthrough
• http://www.gizmag.comThe use of optical sound-on-film recording on early movie films revolutionized the motion picture industry and remained the standard method of audio recording in that medium for more than 80 years.
Boeing Just Patented A Force Field Made Of Lasers
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First-ever quantum device that detects and corrects its own errors
• http://www.gizmag.comBefore the dream of quantum computing is realized, a number of inherent problems must first be solved.
Students are Building the World's Largest Telescope
• http://mentalfloss.comStudents around the world are building a giant telescope, but it doesn't look like what you'd imagine.
Study claims lunar caverns could hold city-size colonies
• http://www.gizmag.comWe tend to think of future lunar colonies as being cramped futuristic domes or subsurface rabbit warrens, but what about underground caverns big enough to hang glide in?
How a Circular Smartphone Could Help Us Rethink Tech
• http://www.wired.comScreens are rectangles. Even the 3-year-old playing with your iPad could tell you that. But what would the digital world look like through a different sort of frame?
This Bad-Boy Geneticist Wants to Clone a Mammoth
•Hwang Woo-Suk is the bad boy of genetics. He's most famous for falsely claiming to have cloned human stem cells.
How Physicians Care for Patients in the Most Isolated Place on Earth
• http://mentalfloss.comWhen physician Dale Mole stepped off the C-130 turboprop plane that had landed at the South Pole in January 2012, he felt a twinge of disappointment. It was only minus 25 degrees Fahrenheit.
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