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Using synchronous video taken with a pair of smartphones, scientists have created an open-source motion-capture app that gathers human movement data, with rapid analysis via an artificial intelligence system, to then be used in clinical settings for re… Continue reading App rapidly gathers sophisticated movement data, at 1% of the usual cost
Solar power is an excellent way of generating electricity, whether that’s for an off-grid home or for the power grid. With no moving parts maintenance is relatively low, and the …read more Continue reading Bending Light to Fit Technology
Perpetual motion and notions of ‘free energy’ devices are some of those pseudo-science topics that seem to perpetually hang around, no matter how many times it is explained how this …read more Continue reading Simulating a Real Perpetual Motion Device
There are many well-known physical constants, but it always interests us when someone can approximately measure them using equipment you probably have. We could pretend it is because we want …read more Continue reading Measuring Planck’s Constant (Again)
[RCLifeOn] happened to come into possession of some radioactive uranium ore. He thus decided to build a cloud chamber to visualize the products of radioactive decay in a pleasing visual …read more Continue reading Building a DIY Cloud Chamber
[Sergii] has been learning about robot simulation and wrote up a basic simulator for a robodog platform: the Unitree A1. It only took about 800 lines of code to do …read more Continue reading Browser-Based Robot Dog Simulator in ~800 Lines of Code
The very fabric of spacetime is constantly warping, on unimaginably tiny scales, as ripples from past cataclysms wash over us. Astrophysicists have now detected a background sea of gravitational waves, using a galaxy-scale detector made up of dead star… Continue reading Galactic-scale detector picks up background distortions in spacetime
Smart textiles and patches are coming in thick and fast, from wound-monitoring and healing bandages, to heartrate-measuring thread woven into fabric. The latest in this burgeoning field of medical therapies is one that impressively keeps an eye on your… Continue reading Self-powering patch can monitor muscle moves and it costs less than $3
Beer and peanuts have been a match made in heaven for so long it’s hard to pinpoint just when the holy union came about. It was made commercially official in the US in 1937, with the rather ingenious branding of Beer Nuts, and for almost as long scient… Continue reading The reason peanuts ‘dance’ in beer (we know you want to know)
A team of researchers led by Ohio University Professor of Physics Saw Wai Hla has captured the first X-ray “image” of a single atom, allowing scientists to study materials and their chemical states with greater resolution than ever before.Continue Read… Continue reading Quantum needle snaps first X-ray image of a single atom