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Mar 7, 2016
Nonhuman ‘Hands’ Found in Prehistoric Rock Art
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: futurism
To know where we are going and why, we must first know from whence we came. So, science. =)
The roughly 8,000-year-old “hands” painted on a rock wall in the Sahara Desert aren’t human at all, as researchers originally thought, but are actually stencils of the “hands” or forefeet, of the desert monitor lizard, a new study finds.
These tiny lizard hands are intermingled with paintings of human adult hands, which ancient rock artists stenciled around using red, yellow, orange and brown pigments, the researchers said.
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Mar 6, 2016
Bioluminescent Bacteria Could Light Up The Streets Of Paris
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: futurism
https://youtube.com/watch?v=a8MYrlT4DzQ
When science does amazing things; it definitely creates the “WOW” factor like nothing else can.
A French company is harnessing the power of bioluminescent bacteria to light up public areas.
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Mar 6, 2016
Putting out fires with nothing but sound
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Whoa! A duo of undergraduates at George Mason University in Virginia created a device that they say puts out fires with nothing but sound. http://bit.ly/1bO8Ivq
Mar 6, 2016
L.A.’s U.S. Bank Tower is Installing Glass Slide
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: futurism
The U.S Bank Tower in Los Angeles will be opening a fully enclosed glass side called SkySlide, which will perch 1,000 feet above the street. Read on.
Mar 4, 2016
Robot shows off flexible, octopus-like skin
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
TweetScientists from Cornell University have come up with a new form of technology that holds a lot of promise in the field of electronics, where stretchy screens and other products are shaping up to be the wave of the future. Scientists from Cornell University have come up with a new form of technology that holds a lot of promise in the field of electronics, where stretchy screens and other products are shaping up to be the wave of the future.
The Cornell study published yesterday in Science takes a look at a pliable type of “skin” that changes colors and flexes and stretches based on the pressure it senses. This skin is said to be similar to that of squid and octopus, but, according to Cornell Organic Robotics Lab researcher Chris Larson, it’s “much, much, much more stretchable than human skin or octopus skin.” He compared the stretchy skin to something akin to a “rubber band or a balloon.”