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Wednesday, 6 May 2015


                                                              Enter the new dragon

Friday, 19 December 2014




Space Photo Saturday! Since it launched in 1977, 
Voyager 1 has traveled more than 11 billion miles at 
39,000 miles-per-hour through space. LEARN 

Sunday, 16 February 2014

This jacket was made by a company called BioCouture, using a symbiotic mix of yeast and bacteria. These living creatures produce bacterial cellulose, which is kind of like a vegetable leather. The clothing is 100% compostable, which means when you're done with it, you can throw it on the compost heap and it'll release nutrients into the soil just like your vegetable scraps.

A new species of stripy reef fish has been found in the southern Red Sea in Africa. Described by an Australian scientist, it was named by school students at a science expo in Sydney. The genus was named Gymnoxenisthmus, which means 'naked', because the fish has no gills, and the species name is tigrellus, which means 'little tiger'.

Known as 'frozen smoke', aerogel is made by extracting the liquid component of alumina, chromia, tin oxide, or carbon gels through supercritical drying. Around 99.8% of aerogel is just empty space, but this incredible material can singlehandedly shield you from a flamethrower attack.