These Smart Gloves Use Bacteria-Sensing Silk to Warn of Risky Exposure
The word 'contamination' flashes up on the gloves' fingers when E. coli or similar is detected.
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The word 'contamination' flashes up on the gloves' fingers when E. coli or similar is detected.
This is the interior of an electrode housing box. It may not look much, but the gold–platinum test cube will fly aboard the European Space Agency’s LISA Pathfinder mission in an attempt to achieve the best free-fall ever. Read more >>
That's a portmanteau of sportsman, and pornstar, so y'know.
Following the death of airline pilot Richard Westgate, at least 17 former and serving cabin crew are seeking legal action against various British airlines for ill health they allege was caused by pollutants in cabin air.
You’ve probably heard a bit about rare Earth elements. Despite their value, we’re do a piss poor job recycling them. But chemists are now hoping to change that.
Standing on the surface of Venus, your body would be crushed, fried, and dissolved by the climate. Too bad, because if you could survive on Venus, you might witness some epic volcanic eruptions.
And it could lead to global starvation for humans — as well as many other animals.
They're pretty god damn amazing.
Our probes and robots have revealed it’s a harsh, barren space boulder with a nightmarish environment. But there are a lot of similarities as well, and they could help us colonise our lunar companion.
The pock-marked surface of this spherical chunk of rock looks a lot like images of our own Moon — but in fact, this is much, much further away. Read more >>
The first mission to Jupiter's moon, specifically searching for sign's of life, enters development phase.
But it's still too scary-looking, according to its designers.
Even the hardest of materials react to immense pressures. In this image, x-ray imaging reveals how a laser-generated shock wave propagates through a piece of diamond.
The cream of the crop, from the dozens of craft that have sent back pictures and data from our neighbouring heavenly bodies.
That means evaporation could be an energy source for gadgets in the future.
This small, clear block may not look much, but it uses some of the world’s most basic physics to accurately recreate the rhythms of the human heart in the laboratory.
