The Smithsonian Natural History Museum houses 147 million specimens — everything from pickled animals to priceless gems to dinosaur bones. But less than 1% of it's on display. The rest is hidden behind... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 years 10 months ago • 60 views • 12:15

The Omega 1 is not only much more powerful than existing technology, but it is also much more efficient. The Omega 1’s rotary mechanism is very efficient because it has very little friction and fluid... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 2 weeks ago • 481 views

The world remains in a state of shock after spectacular satellite images of an undersea volcano erupting on the island of Tonga left a giant mushroom cloud in the Pacific region. With shocking visuals... continue reading

posted by eric3579 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 42 views • 4:26

YouTube description: Technical details about what we're doing: We're working on a time-series problem called a Sequence Classification. Recurrent Neural Networks called Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 weeks ago • 566 views • 10:41

YouTube description: You can tell a lot about an animal from the way it moves, which is why scientists have been recreating the movements of an extinct crocodile-like creature called Orobates pabsti.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 443 views • 4:19

YouTube description: How do you cool a building without air conditioning? Using an approach called biomimicry, see how architect Mick Pearce harnessed the ingenuity of termites to design a natural cooling... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 583 views • 3:42

YouTube: Collective nouns are a great way to have fun with language and nature.

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 12 months ago • 864 views • 1:59

I built a prawn trap from lawyer cane, sticks and vine. Then I caught some prawns and ate them. Prawn (and fish) traps are simple traps designed to catch aquatic life due to their shape. It consists... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 4 months 1 week ago • 258 views • 7:16

YouTube description: Conceived in the open sea, tiny spaceship-shaped sea urchin larvae search the vast ocean to find a home. After this incredible odyssey, they undergo one of the most remarkable transformations... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 658 views • 3:23

YouTube description: It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Although the USA won... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 812 views • 14:23

I invented the Bow Blower, a combination of the bow drill and forge blower to make a device that can force air into a fire while being easy to construct from commonly occurring natural materials using... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 1,388 views • 4:32

YouTube Description: Imagine a mouthful of pop rocks plus Novocaine plus dandelions and you'll have an idea of what buzz buttons are like! Big in Brazil, the buzz buttons inspired us to call on our favorite... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 1 year 9 months 2 weeks ago • 311 views • 5:27

YouTube Description: What happens when single photons of light pass through a double slit and are detected by a photomultiplier tube? In 1801 Thomas Young seemed to settle a long-running debate about... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 12 months ago • 251 views • 6:00

When evolution calls, Katydid answers.

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 2 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,836 views • 2:27