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!
This is really interesting, a new site coming in 2010 that helps folks collect data… For the web geeks, perhaps it’s like a NING or Mechanical Turk for science?… iDoScience.org is a revolutionary new Web technology that allows citizen scientists, teachers, and students of all ages to collaborate with professional scientists on science projects of […]
This is funny, Netflix under the microscope…literally… Rent what you want, watch when you want, and exchange as often as you want.รย Idea is catching on.รย Netflix now boasts 11.1 million subscribers.รย That’s a lot of people, who may or may not be washing their hands as often as you’d like. We, literally, put Netflix […]
While Princeton University’s National Spherical Torus Experiment was shut down for improvements over the winter break, scientists and engineers availed themselves of the opportunity to recalibrate the reactor’s neutron sensors. To do so, they assembled a circular toy train track around the torus and ran a toy locomotive carrying a chunk of neutron-emitting californium-247 along it for three days. The New York Times explains:
I’ve been listening to a lot of BBC podcasts (audio programs) lately, mostly their science shows – here’s a great one from a couple weeks ago… ‘Amateur’ is not a term that’s always considered as a compliment, but it should be, argue amateur scientists. The word amateur comes from the French ‘amour’, meaning someone who […]
It’s that time! Top 10 astronomy photos of 2009… …astronomy is so visually appealing as well! Colorful stars, wispy, ethereal nebulae, galactic vistas sprawling out across our telescopesรขโฌยฆ itรขโฌโขs art no matter how you look at it. And our techniques for viewing the heavens gets better every year; our telescopes get bigger, our cameras more […]
Regular parabolic mirrors are great for concentrating sunlight for solar heating, however they are bulky and can be difficult to repair. That’s where Dominic Wanjihias’ flat parabolic mirror comes into play.
Wooden pallets are easy to come by and can be made into a neat sled (or sledge) using Stiffey’s Instructable.
