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The video above demonstrates a nifty educational resource developed at the Harvard Biodesign Lab for the developers of the soft robotics field. Watch pressurized “fingers” bend around objects, a soft rubbery thing crawl across the table on its own and some stretchy stuff stretching, while being live-configured through computer interface. We’re sure it has a lot of very technical, very […]
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) announced yesterday that they’ve discovered a “new” rocky planet 650 light-years away, spotted by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft. It is about 11 billion years old, circles a sunlike star once every 45 days and is all solid, “although it may possess a thin atmosphere shown here as wispy clouds” in the artist rendering above. […]
These microscopic crystal flowers were grown by Harvard researcher Wim L. Noorduin by dissolving barium chloride and sodium silicate into water. When the carbon dioxide diffuses the solution, intricate patterns form in the barium crystal. The resulting nanoscale blossoms seem to have been picked right out of a fairy’s garden. Varying levels of acidity drastically impact […]
