iPhone in a rocket
My brother found this, but he is too afraid of the internet to post something in the comments on my previous post about acceleration and the iphone. It turns out that this too awesome to just be in ...
View ArticleA demo for the color black
What do you see when you are in a completely dark room with no lights?
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How to Make an Electronic Display With Paper and Mood-Ring Ink
Using cheap materials that anyone can order by mail, scientists built several color-changing electronic displays on sheets of ordinary paper. The device relies upon thermochromic ink, the same stuff...
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DIY Pics From the Edge of Space for Just $150
For $148 in off-the-shelf parts, two Massachusetts Institute of Technology students have taken pictures from the edge of space. Justin Lee and Olivery Yeh’s DIY dirigible launched on September 2 from...
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Teen’s DIY Energy Hacking Gives African Village New Hope
Some people see lemons and make lemonade. William Kamkwamba saw wind and made a windmill. This might not seem like a mighty feat. But Kamkwamba, who grew up in Masitala, a tiny rural farming village...
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DIY Laser Market Exploding, Cosmetic Surgeons Not Happy
Want to get rid of some unsightly hair, but don’t want to spend the big bucks for electrolysis or a laser clinic? Now, you can buy your own laser and do it yourself. And people are. The growth of the ...
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DIY Botox: Site Offers Injectable Drug Without Prescription — With How-To Video
A website that sells a prescription drug similar to Botox without requiring a prescription claims it has more than 2,000 customers. Some have learned how to inject the botulism-derived drug into their...
View ArticleDIY Botox Seller Busted by Texas Attorney General
The Texas attorney general filed charges Monday against Laurie D’Alleva for allegedly selling prescription drugs like Botox from websites she owned, including discountmedspa.com. Agents descended on...
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Hacked Wiimote Makes Super Scientific Sensor
SAN FRANCISCO — To gamers, $40 may seem like a steep price to replace a Wii remote controller, but to scientists, a hacked Wiimote is a steal compared to the pricey sensors needed for a lot of field...
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DIY Bedbug Detector
INDIANAPOLIS — After trying some 50 arrangements of household objects, researchers have come up with a new low-cost, homemade bedbug detector. To lure the bugs out of hiding, Wan-Tien Tsai of Rutgers...
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Audio: DIY Recordings of Awakening Sun
As the sun emerges from a long lull in activity, the star’s emissions in the radio band of the spectrum have also picked up. And from a shed on three acres of land outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, amateur...
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$100 DIY Shelter Could Help Homeless Haitians
With just $100 worth of plywood and screws, almost anyone can build a shelter known as a Hexayurt that can last three years and possibly even withstand a hurricane. The simple DIY structure could be a...
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Op-Ed: The DIY Genius of the Original Earth Day
I’ve come to believe that Earth Day is the least understood famous event in modern American history. Every April 22, we pay ritual homage to the planet. This year, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day,...
View ArticleVideo: Meteor Explodes Over New Mexico
A meteor exploded in the atmosphere near Santa Fe, New Mexico just before 5 a.m. on the morning of July 31. Local amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft captured the event from his personal...
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Asteroid Crater Hunting From Your Home
Just days after a Google Earth–aided discovery of a meteor impact was announced in Science, yet another crater has been found using Google Maps and open-access software. The age of armchair crater...
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DIY Laser Safety: How to Test Pointers and Save Your Eyes
In the last 20 years, green lasers have shrunk from table-size lab equipment to pocket-portable presentation tools (not to mention cat toys). But making laser pointers a household item may have come at...
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Danish Volunteers Build Manned Spacecraft
A team of Danish volunteers has built a rocket capable of carrying a human into space, and will be launching it in a week’s time. The project, which has been funded entirely by donations and...
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DIY Laser-Safety Update: There’s an Easier Way
A few weeks ago we posted a story about how some green laser pointers leak dangerous amounts of eye-damaging infrared light, and outlined a home-brew way to test your own laser pointers. That test...
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DIY Bat-Saving: Build Your Own Bat House
Looking for a simple, outdoorsy fall project that could help save threatened bats from dying out? Then it's time to put up a bat box. If you put it up now, bats will have a chance to scout it out ...
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DIY Biotech Hacker Space Opens in NYC
A cadre of science entrepreneurs recently opened Genspace, the world's first government-compliant community biotech laboratory. The bedroom-sized facility was two years in the making and, for a...
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How to Capture the Sun in a Beer Can
This sun-streaked image comes from the easiest, yet most time-intensive DIY astrophotography project ever: solargraphy. Solargraphs trace the seasons by exposing a sheet of photosensitive paper to...
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Dr. Seussian Mystery Fluid Could Have Saved Top Kill
A mixture of cornstarch and water best known for entertaining kindergartners could have plugged the spewing Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, say physicists. Where regular drilling mud failed to...
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Turn Your Cellphone Into a High-Powered Scientific Microscope
Using tape, rubber and a tiny glass ball, researchers transformed an iPhone into a cheap, yet powerful microscope able to image tiny blood cells. They’ve also added a clinical-grade cellphone...
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DIY Fireworks Blow Away Factory-Made Displays
On the Fourth of July, the sky above towns across the nation will glow in a blitz of factory-made colors. But some of the biggest, best and most innovative fireworks won’t be on display during the...
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Experimental Archaeologists Test Past by Making It Real
See Also: Neanderthals Not Dumb, but Made Dull Gadgets Scientists Find Contents of Prehistoric Messenger Bag Hominids Went Out of Africa on Rafts The First Aid: Iceman May Have Dressed His Own Wounds...
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Aerial Drone Counts Birds for Science
A remote colony of birds kept flying away before anyone could count them, so a team of ecologists built a do-it-yourself aerial drone to spy on them from above.
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Man Claims to Fly With Custom-Built Bird Wings
Using videogame controllers, an Android phone and custom-built wings, a Dutch engineer named Jarno Smeets has achieved birdlike flight.
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High-Tech Snowflakes: A Biochemist’s Homegrown Snow
Biochemist Linden Gledhill has made a hobby of tackling tough natural subjects with do-it-yourself engineering. His latest challenge: manufacturing snowflakes in his basement.
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DIY Space Capsule Test Launch Ends With Crushing Splash
A do-it-yourself spaceflight program called Copenhagen Suborbitals tested a launch escape system early on Sunday, Aug. 12 in the middle of the Baltic Sea. It ended with a crushing splash.
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A DIY Space Suit for the 99 Percent
Taking a balloon up into the lower stratosphere may seem crazy, but to Cameron M. Smith it's an opportunity to fulfill a lifelong dream. The 45-year-old Portland State University anthropologist...
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