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Every once in a while a piece of research sneaks in that gives a glimmer of hope to an impending crisis, and by the way the above website has a GREAT animation of how this thing works. While we are all mostly worried about the price of fueling up our Hummers, probably the greatest, […]
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A Zenit-3SL rocket explodes on its floating launch platform—an incident initally described as an “anomaly”—on January 30th. (credit: Sea Launch)
I came across this interesting piece of research about sound and vibrations induced by sounds and while some folks would just blow by it without notice, I could not help but read this and start […]
Science Volume 319, Number 5860,
Issue of 11 January 2008
©2008 by The American Association for the Advancement of Science.
MATERIALS SCIENCE: How to Walk on Water
Julia Fahrenkamp-Uppenbrink Water striders can skate and jump on water without drowning. The legs of these insects have a hierarchical structure of hydrophobic hairs; the resulting highly water-repellent surface is thought to […]
Now here is better living through chemistry. Mix microencapsulated solvent, and microencapsulated unreacted epoxy into a composite matrix. Then, once the matrix is later cracked or broken through some type of abuse, the solvent capsules will open and mix with the unreacted epoxy, healing the crack. In other words, a self healing material that could […]
