If you are not familiar with Schlieren photography, you are not alone. It is a photography technique that allows the differing densities of gases to be photographed. Now Dr. Gary Settles, an engineering professor at At Pennsylvania State University and Dr. Julian Tang, a virus expert from Singapore have used the technique to capture, [...]
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[ October 28th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]Cough Captured For the First Time on Film Using Schlieren Photography
Copenhagen Suborbitals to Roman Candle Humans Into Space in Cramped Conditions
Copenhagen Suborbitals are taking a Micromachines view of the commercial space race. They are developing a series of suborbitals that are designed to take a single passenger into space. The company currently has two projects under development: the Hybrid Atmospheric Test Vehicle (unmanned) and the Hybrid Exo Atmospheric Transporter, which will carry a tiny spacecraft [...]
Economic Relativity: Despite Floundering Global Economy, Einstein’s Watch Sells For a Whole Lot of Money
A Longines wristwatch that was presented to Albert Einstein in the 1930s has just been sold at auction by Antiquorum, where it fetched the princely sum of $596,000 (economy be damned). Apparently this is 2000% more than the auctioneer expected - it doesn’t really surprise me though, after all it belonged to one of the [...]
WTF - That Looks Like a Solar Powered Camel
Yes, that is a camel with solar panels mounted on its back. I could let you guess what they are for, but I won’t. The solar cells power a small refrigerator, which allows them to deliver heat-sensitive vaccines to remote health centers that serve nomadic communities in Africa. When refrigeration is not needed, the solar [...]
NASA’s IBEX to Explore Termination Shock and Leave Solar System
The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is a newly built NASA spacecraft that will be launched, weather conditions permitting, on October 19. It is hoped that it will travel to the edge of our solar system and return data and images that will hopefully provide a better understanding of the processes involved in the “termination [...]
