Whatever the larger implications of the mammoth ivory trade may be, it has created a practical forensic problem for law enforcement. Buying mammoth ivory is, generally, legal, while buying elephant...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday March 29th, 2012 6:25 AM
Welsh sculptor Jessica Lloyd-Jones created a series of four gas discharge tubes in the shape of human organs. Besides Electric Lungs, shown above, it includes Optic Nerve, Brain Wave, and...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday March 28th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Science | 2 Comments
In fact, there are a now a couple of different tests, but the traditional method is known as the Janka hardness test, named for Austrian wood researcher Gabriel Janka, who...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday March 27th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Science, Woodworking | No Comments
Researchers Jan Torgersen and Peter Gruber at Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) have successfully printed intricately detailed models of various objects at the nanometer scale using a process called...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Tuesday March 13th, 2012 4:00 AM
Categories: 3D Printing, Science | 4 Comments
It's news to me that it's possible to extract the DNA from your own cells with just a few household products such as bottled water, dish soap, food coloring, table...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Monday March 5th, 2012 4:00 AM
Categories: Science | 2 Comments
At the TED2012 Conference with Ayah Bdeir of littleBits, Gregory Gage of Backyard Brains, and Bre Pettis of MakerBot Industries
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder | Friday March 2nd, 2012 2:00 PM
Categories: 3D Printing, Electronics, Home, Kids & Family, Science, Tools | 4 Comments
When 18-year-old Honduran maker Luis Cruz met a quadriplegic high school classmate and learned about the challenges he and other folks with disabilities face in the light of expensive assistive...
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Thursday February 23rd, 2012 6:19 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Science | 2 Comments
Biomechanical engineer Robert Armiger and surgical roboticist Carol Reiley, both of Johns Hopkins University, created Air Guitar Hero as a fun rehabilitation exercise for people with amputations. The original version...
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Wednesday February 22nd, 2012 5:11 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, Science | 1 Comment
Everyone loves a soft robot, and I'm fond of the marine variety. This bioinspired prototype tentacle, made of silicone rubber, not only curls and extends in eerily squidlike fashion, it's...
Posted by Keith Hammond | Saturday February 18th, 2012 5:30 PM
Categories: Robotics, Science | 2 Comments
Kiwi programmer and farmer John Hart of Lifeboat Farm has been experimenting with using his RepRap to produce mechanical pest control devices so he can leave off the chemical pesticides....
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday February 10th, 2012 6:19 AM
Categories: 3D Printing, Gardening, Home, Science | 2 Comments
If you can endure the relentless puns, the tag aggregator page for MakerBot’s Project Shellter is a fun read. There are cool pics of the denizens of MakerBot’s official “crabitat”...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday February 9th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: 3D Printing, Science | 4 Comments
While developing the second phase of their Cretaceous Sea Exhibition, The Hastings Museum in Hastings, NE commissioned a life-size model of a Xiphactinus from Gary Staab, a paleo artist based...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Saturday February 4th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Science | 2 Comments
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