by Jared | May 31, 2008 | Learning & Education
When anthropologists first overflew the area, they saw women and children in the open and no one appeared to be painted. It was only when the plane returned a few hours later that they saw these individuals covered head-to-toe in red. Tribes in the Amazon paint...
by Jared | May 30, 2008 | Learning & Education
Texas based KumoTek announces the KumoTek KT-X bipedal humanoid robot developed in cooperation with Japanese Vstone. KumoTek has built an entire education system around their robots called Robot P.E.T.S. (Robots Promoting Education Through Science), which is designed...
by Jared | May 29, 2008 | Learning & Education
This is a time lapse of gravity wave action from the Tama, Iowa KCCI-TV webcam in the United Sates on 6 May 2007. In the earth’s atmosphere, gravity waves are important for transferring momentum from the troposphere to the mesosphere.. Info Link:...
by Jared | May 28, 2008 | Tech & Science
Taking its inspiration from the grasshopper, a tiny two-legged robot that stores elastic energy in springs has leaped 27 times its own height, smashing the record of 17 times set by a previous robot. Later they want to build a wire superstructure to make the robot...
by Jared | May 27, 2008 | Space & Discovery
NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars yesterday after its 422-million-mile (679-million-km) flight from Earth to Mars after launching on Aug. 4, 2007. Phoenix is to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood...
