Category: Science & Technology

NASA's new Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine for the lunar lander gets icicles on its rim while burning at 5,000 degrees...

10 Comments · February 1st, 2009 · Posted in Autos & Vehicles, Science & Technology

A robot developed by roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania can reassemble itself after being kicked into pieces. The...

5 Comments · February 1st, 2009 · Posted in Science & Technology

A new iPhone app called CubeCheater helps you solve the classic Rubik's Cube puzzle toy using a mix of sophisticated algorithms...

2 Comments · January 30th, 2009 · Posted in Science & Technology

Rare 1983 Apple Event starring Steve Jobs as he hosts a "Macintosh" dating show with Bill Gates as one of the contestants.

2 Comments · January 29th, 2009 · Posted in People, Science & Technology

SSI, a manufacturer of industrial strength shredders, shot this footage of a piano getting chewed up in the mouth of a giant...

2 Comments · January 28th, 2009 · Posted in Science & Technology

Excerpt from an anthropological dig on one of the biggest ant colonies ever cataloged. A giant ant colony pumped full of cement...

2 Comments · January 28th, 2009 · Posted in Pets & Animals, Science & Technology

This footage is from a trial to see how smart crows are. They wait for the correct light and use the traffic to crack their nuts.

2 Comments · January 27th, 2009 · Posted in Pets & Animals, Science & Technology

In 2000, Sachiko Kodama began work on a ferrofluid art project that she named "Protrude, Flow". Ferrofluid is a very interesting...

1 Comment · January 27th, 2009 · Posted in Science & Technology

These frogs freeze completely when winter comes, entering a hibernation period. They actually stop their heartbeat, and thaw when...

5 Comments · January 26th, 2009 · Posted in Pets & Animals, Science & Technology

Demo of the first Apple Macintosh by Steve Jobs, January 24, 1984, in front of 3000 people. The technology was much different...

5 Comments · January 25th, 2009 · Posted in Science & Technology