You’ve seen the flamethrower-equipped robot dog, now check out what happens when you use sound to extinguish flames. James Orgill of The Action Lab first attempted to use a 70Hz tone to extinguish an alcohol flame, but that proved futile.
To get an up-close look at E-Defense, the world’s largest earthquake simulator, Vertiasium’s Peter Lebedev headed to The National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) facility in Tsukuba, Japan.
MIT engineers have developed an ingestible capsule that vibrates to create a sense of fullness and one day may be used to treat obesity. Users will just need to swallow this device before a meal and it then vibrates for 30 minutes after arriving in the stomach.
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Researchers, led by Professor Andrew Forbes from Wits University, have successfully used light to teleport images across a network without having to physically send them, similar to what you’ve seen in Star Trek. In other words, they used a teleportation-inspired configuration so that the information does not physically travel between the two communicating parties.
Military-grade run flat tires can withstand just about anything, but what about car tires filled with liquid nitrogen? Superkot wanted to find out so he did just that on his Mazda Miata and then added an in-tire camera to boot.
Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of the Slow Mo Guys headed to Caltech and used their ultra high-speed camera to film the speed of light at 10-trillion frames per second. Postdoctoral scholar Peng Wang met up with them at the school’s Compressed Ultrafast Photography department to attempt the feat.
You’ve seen DOOM running on a keycap, but what about E. Coli cells? PhD student Lauren Ramlan wanted to find out if it was possible. Put simply, this would require the cells to function as pixels, or a simple 1-bit black-and-white display where a pixel is either on or off, represented as 1 and 0 respectively.
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China’s Deep Underground and Ultra-low Radiation Background Facility for Frontier Physics Experiments (DURF), located beneath Jinping Mountain in Sichuan’s Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, is now the world’s deepest and largest underground laboratory.