by Leroy Hurt | Feb 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via TCS Daily: The engineers do things that the shamans and wizards of previous eras only promised, and they do them so well, and so reliably, that their reward is to be taken for granted. So here’s my request: every once in a while, stop and think about the...
by Leroy Hurt | Feb 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: 32-year-old Timo Boll is Germany’s table tennis champion, currently ranked number eight in the world. He is also a new “brand ambassador” for KUKA Robotics in China. The company’s “Agilus” robot is the fastest...
by Leroy Hurt | Feb 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Instapundit and Penn State News: …a team of chemists and engineers at Penn State has placed tiny synthetic motors inside live human cells, propelled them with ultrasonic waves and steered them magnetically. Nanomotors are controlled, for the first time, inside...
by Leroy Hurt | Feb 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Instapundit and KansasCity.com: John Sleezer | The Kansas City Star Mason Wilde, 16, has been building things since he was little. He put his skills to good use by using the Johnson County Library’s 3-D printer to craft a prosthetic hand for 9-year-old Matthew,...
by Leroy Hurt | Feb 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via The Independent: Scientists in California said on Wednesday night that they have for the first time managed to release more energy from their nuclear fusion experiment than they put into it, which marks a critical threshold in eventually achieving the goal of a...
