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Science Has Literally Built Luke Skywalker’s Robotic Hand, Touch And All
Amputees may one day regain actual feeling thanks to DARPA and researchers at Case Western University, who have created what we thought was once only possible in science fiction. As apart of Darpa’s Reliable Neural-Interface Technology (RE-NET) program, CWRU’s flat interface nerve electrode (FINE) system has demonstrated that it can provide enough sensation to give amputees the ability to feel their way around, just like Luke Skywalker.
Buildings Based On Human Bone Structure Could Be The Future Of Cities
Biomimicry borrows design solutions from the embedded intelligence within animals’ bodies — chiefly from other species. But it occasionally also borrows from within the human body. For example, a new study from MIT suggests that buildings of the future could be built with super-strong materials based on the structure of human bones.
Four Insane ’60s Military Prototypes That Crashed And Burned
If the music‘s anything to go by, pretty much everyone was on something in the ’60s — and that includes the engineers. BAE Systems has recently dug up some totally batshit-crazy ideas that were seriously being kicked around by its ‘crack’ team of engineers, and they’re both totally ridiculous and dangerously awesome.
Your Vanilla Flavouring Will Soon Come From… Sawdust
It’s not uncommon to hear bibliophiles and pedants waxing poetic about the wonderful and incomparable “old book smell”, but tiresome as these tirades may be, it turns out they might actually be on to something. Thanks to a recent scientific study, that same, vanilla-tinged aroma wafting off the pages of old tomes is now the most efficient way to flavour our ice cream.
Scientist Drinks Billion-Year-Old Water Just To See What It’s Like
So remember about a month ago when scientists in Canada found the oldest undisturbed water cache ever? The one that had been stagnant beneath a rock for roughly 1.5 billion years? And that might hold the remains of prehistoric life? Yeah, don’t drink that; it tastes like crap. Or so says Dr Barbara Sherwood Lollar. And she should know — she tasted it.
How The Hell Does A Quantum Computer Work?
You’ve probably heard people — including us — banging on about quantum computers for a long ol’ time. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you know exactly how they work. Fortunately, this video is here to help.
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