Now that you can hear a solar eclipse, why not see one from 30,000-feet in the sky aboard Delta flight 1218? It’s set to take off on April 8, 2024 from Austin at 12:15 p.m. CT and land in Detroit at 4:20 p.m. ET, giving passengers aboard the best chance of seeing the solar eclipse.
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Researchers from the Beckman Institute have developed a chameleon-inspired 3D printing technique that lets you print multiple colors from a single ink polymer. How so? It utilizes ultraviolet light to selectively modify the surface structure of the crosslinking polymers as it’s being dispensed.
Going supersonic with canned air is surprisingly easy, and you won’t need any jet engines to do so. Cylo’s Garage uses a basic Schlieren imaging setup to capture the shock diamonds from the ultra thin tubes flowing out from the Staples-brand canned air.
The Slow Mo Guys are back at it again, and this time they use their high-speed TMX Phantom camera to capture a CD being microwaved in super slow motion at 80,000FPS. Scientifically speaking, microwaving a compact disc vaporizes the aluminum, resulting in a light show of sorts.
Capturing a rare red sprite from space is one thing, observing a thunderstorm from the International Space Station (ISS) is an entirely different experience. This weather phenomena was captured by ESA astronaut Marcus Wandt using a special DAVIS (Dynamic and Active-pixel Vision Sensor), which contains a global shutter active pixel sensor (APS) in addition to the dynamic vision sensor (DVS) on the same photosensor array.
Synthetic biology startup Light Bio announced that it has begun selling its bioluminescent petunias in the United States after receiving approval from the USDA. This was made possible by building upon previous research for creating continuously glowing plants by inserting DNA obtained from mushrooms.
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Researchers from Yonsei University in South Korea have developed a beef cell-infused rice hybrid that could one day provide an alternative protein source for astronauts. Put simply, muscle and fat stem cells sourced from cows were transplanted into grains of rice, and due to the latter’s porous nature, there’s room for stem cells to grow within the grains in a petri dish.
