DIY science is the perfect way to use your creative skills and learn something new. With the right supplies, some determination, and a curious mind, you can create amazing experiments that open up a whole world of possibilities. At home-made laboratories or tech workshops, makers from all backgrounds can explore new ideas by finding ways to study their environment in novel ways – allowing them to make breathtaking discoveries!
Part of this problem, posed by one Ernst Straus in 1952, is to design a polygonal room lined with mirrors having at least two points such that any ray starting at one point can reflect around the room forever without hitting the other point, and vice versa. One such room, shown above, was demonstrated by […]
2010 Nobel prize in physics goes to Andre Geim & Konstantin Novoselov. Graphene – the perfect atomic lattice. A thin flake of ordinary carbon, just one atom thick, lies behind this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov have shown that carbon in such a flat form has exceptional properties that originate […]
Brain-machine interface researchers at the University of Tokyo were apparently successful at combining rat and machine, creating the RatCar.
Here’s a neat design for an improved wheelchair, by designer and wheelchair user Salim Nasser.
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this beautiful modular origami construction, Ã la Tomoko Fuse, from user fdecomite. Its formal title, Giant short nanotube, provides a rare opportunity to observe a double oxymoron in the wild.
Those interested in mechanisms and horology will probably enjoy watching the hypnotic action of this single-pin escapement executed in Lego by YouTuber horolophile. An “escapement,” FYI, is the mechanism in a timepiece that converts continuous rotational motion into oscillating “back and forth” motion and makes it go tick-tock.
The latest high altitude weather balloon video making the rounds is from the father and son team of Luke and Max Geisshuhler of Brooklyn, NY. Their setup included a 19-inch helium balloon with a payload consisting of a camcorder, GPS enabled phone, and a couple of hand warmers inside a styrofoam container.
