
This video captured a remarkable scene where an octopus not only made quick work of the underwater food canister, but did so while fending off a pajama catshark with just one tentacle!
Advanced Industrial Science Technology (AIST) has created HRP-4C Miim, a female robot that walks like a human being (similar to ASIMO but prettier). Her knees are stretched by up/down motion of the waist, the single-toe supporting realizes longer strides, and she mimics the swing motion of human legs.
In this video, Japanese astronaut, Dr. Takao Doi, throws a boomerang inside the International Space Station, in a zero-G environment. Before the experiment, they really were not sure what it would do, thinking it would probably spin up and away from the thrower, As it turns out, it acts pretty much the same as it…
Oceanographers at Texas A&M University have warned that the millions of pounds of unexploded bombs scattered throughout the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, pose serious threats to the shipping lanes that run through those regions. Discarded military ordnance, including one thousand pound bombs the size of file cabinets and chemical weapons…
Gravity Probe B is a satellite-based, relativity gyroscope experiment that launched in 2004 for the purpose of measuring the space-time curvature near Earth in order to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The experiment was to check, very precisely, tiny changes in the spin and angle of four gyroscopes contained in a highly sophisticated housing…
If you place two metronomes on a stationary board and start them out of sync, they will remain out of sync forever. But if the board is placed on two rollers, so that the movement of the metronomes can be transferred through the moveable board, each metronome’s movement will affect the movement of the other…