Summers in Florida are terrible, forcing people to get creative in order to stay cool without breaking the bank or overloading the electricity grid. Hyperspace Pirate took on the problem and came up with a clever mechanism that absorbs solar energy throughout the day and stores it as ice for use when cooling is required, bingo.
Every year, millions of tons of sawdust accumulate in mountains as a result of lumber mills around the world producing wood products. The majority of it is either put into a furnace to generate energy or ends up in landfills, where it does nothing but release all of the carbon it has accumulated. However, researchers at ETH Zurich have discovered a technique to convert that garbage into solid panels that will work well as inside walls and partitions.
Small asteroids occasionally come close enough to Earth to provide potentially significant resources such as water for rocket fuel and metals for construction panels. TransAstra, a Los Angeles-based startup, has developed a device to grab the rocks whole and draw them into a nearby orbit, where personnel can break them down into useful components.
After watching the James Bond film GoldenEye, Gavin Free of The Slow Mo Guys couldn’t shake a childhood memory. The explosions on screen were something else to say the least, but what really caught his eye was a tiny detail in the corner of the frame. He then discovered that the crew utilized a method in which they recorded real flames from underneath to achieve that effect.
NASA’s latest Hubble images show comet C/2025 K1 ATLAS breaking apart over three days in November 2025, which astronomers had not anticipated. They’d chosen to examine this comet as a last resort because their first pick had proven impossible to observe due to the limitations of their equipment, and, as if the universe was waving in their faces, the comet began to split apart just as they were getting a good look.
Sugar has more power than most people realize, as Chase at Crystalverse demonstrates just how far a single bag from the grocery store can go when used correctly. What begins as regular grains becomes a single brilliant crystal large enough to hold in your palm and appreciate from all sides.
Styropyro has established a name for himself by pushing seemingly ordinary technology to its limits, and in this experiment, he demonstrates some of the fundamental physics at work in its most obvious form. He simply takes car ignition coils, the typical transformers that ignite a spark in your engine, and directs their output to a large blank circuit board.
Researchers at ETH Zurich’s Soft Robotics lab have created a robotic hand and forearm that is surprisingly similar to a human. RHAVCJ stands for Replicating Human Anatomy with Vision-Controlled Jetting, which is quite a mouthful. This is a significant step forward in developing robot hands that can be utilized on humanoid robots.
Liquid oxygen is used in rockets and treated with care in laboratories, but it’s not something that people think about in everyday life. Except for one maker who was interested as to why this was the case, so he decided to make some at home and examine what makes people so cautious about it.
