Shards from famed astronomer’s garden show secret alchemy lab details

Tycho Brahe is best known as a Danish Renaissance astronomer. But he was also a bit of an alchemist, and a first-ever analysis on shards found at his former home from the 1500s has shed some light on just what he was up to in his basement lab.Continue … Continue reading Shards from famed astronomer’s garden show secret alchemy lab details

Shards from famed astronomer’s garden show secret alchemy lab details

Tycho Brahe is best known as a Danish Renaissance astronomer. But he was also a bit of an alchemist, and a first-ever analysis on shards found at his former home from the 1500s has shed some light on just what he was up to in his basement lab.Continue … Continue reading Shards from famed astronomer’s garden show secret alchemy lab details

Video: Crafty quadcopter sits on power lines to recharge

Battery life wouldn’t be an issue for drones if they could just recharge on power lines as needed. That’s exactly what an experimental new quadcopter can now do, allowing it to stay aloft pretty much indefinitely.Continue ReadingCategory: Drones, Techn… Continue reading Video: Crafty quadcopter sits on power lines to recharge

Origami robo-snake slithers toward the future of search and rescue ops

Danish scientists have developed an origami snake robot that could one day search for survivors at disaster sites, or even explore other planets. The device moves via rectilinear locomotion, just like real snakes often do.Continue ReadingCategory: Robo… Continue reading Origami robo-snake slithers toward the future of search and rescue ops

Study shows that bats growl by channeling their inner death metal singer

If you’ve ever listened to death metal rock or Mongolian throat singing, you’ll be familiar with the growling vocals that are part of both. Well, bats make similar sounds, and it turns out that they do so in the same manner as human singers.Continue Re… Continue reading Study shows that bats growl by channeling their inner death metal singer

It’s not just humans – female wild mammals live longer than males

It’s already a well-known fact that on average, women live longer than men. A European study, however, now indicates that the difference between male and female lifespans is even more pronounced in other types of mammals.Continue ReadingCategory: Biolo… Continue reading It’s not just humans – female wild mammals live longer than males