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A robot designed to take care of your plants
For $949, you could own a robot that chases the sun to keep your plants alive. Technology company Vincross created the spider-like HEXA as a multi-functional robot. It turns out one of those functions is for the six-legged robot to take care of your plants for you. With blueprints downloaded from the Vincross website, any […]
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Studying woodpeckers is helping prevent brain trauma
“When you’re hit on the football field, parts of your brain may fizz like a just-opened can of soda.” The brain released humans from the prison of biology.So why do we do anything that damages our ability to think? Because of sports like football that entertain. However, a new technology designed to mimic a woodpecker’s shock-absorbing beak […]
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The calendar from 1895 and 2019 share the same dates
This is neat. The calendar from 1895 and 2019 share the same dates. Mind the prescient quote. Everything comes in circles…The old wheel turns and the same spoke comes up. It has all been done before and will be again… Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,The Valley of Fear
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The floating un-Christmas tree
Are you looking to think outside the box this Christmas? Look no further than the levitating un-Christmas tree, which features all the aspects of the traditional Christmas tree minus the pine tree itself. Whether by virtual reality or a Harry Potter magic wand, the ability to minimize a Christmas tree into nakedness is a […]
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Visualizing the hours of daylight in one year
Reddit user harpalss used animation software D3 to create a beautiful visualization of the changing patterns of daylight in one year. This is how the user describes it: Equation to calculate the hours of daylight for a given day of year and latitude can be found here. The animation was built with D3. Both the northern […]
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How to treat a black eye
You never know when you’ll get a black eye. These tips, as illustrated in the infographic below, may come handy. While most of the tips seem obvious — use cold compression, take an anti-inflammatory, see the doctor if still bloody — others like massaging the eye and eating pineapple and oranges to reduce swelling come […]
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Researchers are developing a new vaccine to treat Lyme Disease
Scientists are developing a vaccine to help treat Lyme disease. Humans can get Lyme disease through the transmission of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium from the bite of an infected tick. Called VLA15, the vaccine works by stimulating the immune system to make antibodies that ward off 6 of the most common types of Lyme-causing bacteria […]
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Photographs of the aerotropolis, post-modern cities built around airports
Should the airport be the hub of the city? According to photographer Giulio Di Sturco, the post-modern city is one of the aerotropolis, where the city, business, entertainment, and nature activities are all centered around the airport. Di Sturco’s ongoing project Aerotropolis, The Way We Will Live Next explores the emergence of globalized architecture and […]
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Nasa unveils Pumpkin sun just in time for Halloween
Just in time for Halloween, NASA has posted a photo of the sun that looks like a massive flaming jack-o’-lantern. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shot the photo earlier this month. The fiery slits in the image reveal the most active parts of the sun. Writes NASA: Active regions on the sun combined to look something […]
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Australia is building car-less neighborhoods
Melbourne, often ranked as one of the world’s most livable cities, is looking to construct neighborhoods where people will never have to use a car. The city is creating “20-minute neighborhoods” that make going from home to the office, school, grocery, or doctor’s office no more than 20 minutes away. Whether on foot, bike, or […]
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Google achieves “quantum supremacy” with the 54-qubit Sycamore processor
Google confirmed that it has officially achieved achieved quantum supremacy with the 54-qubit Sycamore processor. Writes Engineering Director Hartmut Neven on Google’s blog: Today, the scientific journal Nature has published the results of Google’s efforts to build a quantum computer that can perform a task no classical computer can; this is known in the field […]
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The 2019 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Yongqing Bao’s photo of a fox surprising a marmot in the Qilian Mountains in China won the top prize in the 2019 Wildlife Photography Awards. The photograph entitled “The Moment” is a suitable title of a freeze-frame that foreshadows the fox’s imminent attack. What makes the marmot’s palpable shock more extraordinary is that the animal […]