Cuttlefish eggs incubating in soda bottles at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Isn’t it cool how they help the animals along like that I think so.
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This video was part of a larger project pioneered by middle school teacher Patrick Goff, who asked scientists to make short videos about what they think is cool about their work! More information about the program can be found here: http://bit.ly/2ries9Q
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These are great!
It amuses me when people think science is always super formal and “serious”. Field work is at least 50% shenanigans.
Love!
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“HARVARD RESEARCHERS CREATE WORLD’S FIRST ALL-SOFT ROBOT”
Researchers at Harvard University have successfully created the world’s first-ever fully autonomous soft robot. To emphasize, this is the first robot created that does not use any hard components.
The robot is controlled by a pneumatic systems and is shaped like an octopus. Unlike regular robots made of hard materials, this robot’s legs don’t propel it and it isn’t governed by a computer. Instead, the legs just flop around through an autonomous pneumatic system. This system is powered through chemical reactions; gas from hydrogen peroxide pushes fluid through the Ocotobot’s structure in a specific sequence which creates movement.
“The struggle has always been in replacing rigid components like batteries and electronic controls with analogous soft systems and then putting it all together,” explained Wood in the Harvard news release. “This research demonstrates that we can easily manufacture the key components of a simple, entirely soft robot, which lays the foundation for more complex designs.”Read more about this fascinating story on:
http://futurism.com/harvard-made-the-worlds-first-all-soft-robot-its-autonomous-and-its-adorable/
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Rocket launches at sunset or sunrise produce a light show known as twilight phenomena. This occurs when the unburned fuel particles in the rocket trail and water condense, freeze and then expand in the thinner upper atmosphere. (Source)
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Is Dark Energy Evaporating Dark Matter?
Scientists at the University of Rome and Portsmouth recently published a paper which describes dark matter slowly being engulfed by dark energy.
Dark matter is almost completely undetectable matter that astronomers and cosmologists have calculated to exist within our universe, hence the name “dark”. Whereas dark energy is an accepted model of energy that permeates all matter and space, and is responsible for the acceleration of the expansion of the universe (to find out more about the two, click on the links above)
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Even if it’s 6 o’clock somewhere, is Ouzo ever a good idea?
Liquid being placed on a hydrophobic material causing it to keep its shape.
Sometimes science makes me really angry.
this is bothering me
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