Speed limit for birds could mean better UAVs
A mathematical model suggests that birds or unmanned aerial vehicles will always crash when flying at certain speeds in a built-up environment
Making the mirror for the world's biggest telescope
A huge honeycomb mirror destined for the Giant Magellan Telescope is pictured inside its enormous spinning furnace
Airport laser interrogator gives you back your bottle
For some, the bottle ban on planes is seen as a victory for terrorism. It looks like it is on the way out - thanks to a novel laser scanning technology
Grouse have signature drumming styles
Male ruffed grouse are the first animals known to make unique non-vocal sounds
Friday Illusion: Stop a spinning object with your mind
See how a swaying background can affect your perception of a rotating object
Writer, M.D. looks inside medics' minds
Does doctors' famously dark humour betray a troubling truth about the emotional demands of medical practice? A collection of short stories enlightens us
First subliming planet foreshadows Mercury's fate
A rocky planet the size of Mercury seems to be turning to gas, demonstrating just how wacky alien planets can be
Take tips from the arts to make robots come alive
Actors, animators and dancers are helping to help create expressive automatons
From tinkering on the fringes to Nobel glory
Andre Geim, who won the physics Nobel for graphene, talks about levitating frogs and why he prefers British humour
Megaupload site takedown sparks Anonymous action
Just a day after SOPA protests, a major file-sharing site has been taken offline - and hacktivists reacted almost immediately
'Human beings are learning machines,' says philosopher
Prevailing wisdom holds that we are born with an innate understanding of the world. No, argues Jesse Prinz: we learn a lot of it for ourselves
Reliving Scott's quest for the South Pole
A hundred years after Captain Scott's fateful mission, a Natural History Museum exhibit includes an abstract, life-size version of his hut
Neural network gets an idea of number without counting
An artificial brain has taught itself to estimate the number of objects in an image without actually counting them, much as humans can
Feedback: Exhibiting quantum behaviour
More quantum parking, how soccer causes global warming, wet clergy on riot duty, and more
andy williams nyc marathon nyc marathon coriolis effect coriolis effect giants patriots yolo
No comments:
Post a Comment