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Little robot, big job: Hopping robot sniffs out mercury pollution

 Here’s a great example of science and engineering looking to nature for new and innovative ways to solve problems.  Look at that robot!  It’s tiny!  It hops!  It...

Little robot, big job: Hopping robot sniffs out mercury pollution

 Here’s a great example of science and engineering looking to nature for new and innovative ways to solve problems.  Look at that robot!  It’s tiny!  It hops!  It...

Fire up the ionic wind generators, he’s using Photoshop again

 I don’t know if this is a post for here or PimpYourWork, but eh, we’ll do it here (more science than work I guess).  We know that electrical resistance makes heat (this how...

An allergy-free peanut could be on the horizon

I don’t know anyone with a severe allergy to peanuts, but I do know that people who are live in a world where just about any food could make them sick, or worse. News from North Carolina might...

Another step closer to bionic replacement parts

Replacement limbs have generally been somewhat useful objects.  Sure, there are hooks, and some bio-mechanical hands, and much better legs now, but true bionics have eluded us, until now: Touch...

Modern improvement on gathering water from the air

 In the Andes, the Incas and modern-day descendents have been gathering water from the fog for centuries.  The process there is simple, the fog hits some kind of cloth or sheeting and the...

Help the identify galaxies for science on Galaxy Zoo

This caught my eye on Read/Write Web: A new project from the University of Oxford (UK), the University of Portsmouth (UK) and Johns Hopkins University (US) aims to harness the power of the human...

Inspired by nature, a better artificial muscle was developed

Making artificial limbs work like the original has been a lofty goal for years.  Hooks, pulleys, servos, all sorts of gadgets to make fingers and wrists move and respond.  Until now,...

Mushrooms as insulation, it’s not as crazy as you might think

Insulating buildings is one of the most important aspects of the building process.  Insulation not only has to, well, insulate, but it also has to not grow nasty things and last for a long time...

Allow me to test that biodiesel for you

While biodiesel is cool (and according to the article below you can drink it…eeewww) manufacturing is still not 100% there.  So here comes the handy home biodiesel test: Biodiesel is sort...