Browsing the archives for the science news tag

Super Fast Camera Records Photons At A Trillion Frames Per Second.

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Coolest Thing Ever MIT’s Media Lab Let’s hear it for Femtophotography. What it is, is crazy complicated, with lasers and algorithims, and various maths and sciences. What it does is easy. It allows video recording of a nanosecond event, in slow motion. A half trillion frames per second. Yikes. Check out the Camera Culture webpage, [...]

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Anybody Lose A 1900 Year Old Thracian Chariot?

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Youdopian culture embraces its Thracian heritage. Cool beans.

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Picture Taken Of A Pulse Of Light, Wave and All

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I can’t even really pretend to understand this story, but it does strike me as being the dog’s bollocks. The photo and the video below are of a super short burst of light. How short? Well, short enough to photograph the entire wave form. You can see the beginning, middle, and end of the fucker. [...]

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RepRap – A Machine The Replicates Itself (aka Our New Overlord)

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Crazy cool. The machines in the picture are self replicating self replicators. Neato neato neato. Read the story by clicking the picture… or just click here.

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Nano Bot Plays Soccer On Microscopic Maltese Cross (Holy Shit)

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Well, neato! Certainly no one would use those gadgets for evil? Ok, how about for good? No? Just novelty? oh, ok.

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