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!
Another milestone for the largest refrigerator ever made… The first particles have been injected into the biggest atom smasher on the planet, marking the start of the countdown to probing the secrets of the universe. Scientists are pushing ahead with powering up the machine, shrugging off speculative fears that it could destroy all life on […]
It looks like plastic made from a potato is a lot more flexible and clear compared to plastic made from milk. Either one is a nice eco-friendly alternative to the petroleum based variety. Although I think it’s actual usefulness may be a bit limited. In this video we make a batch of potato plastic based […]
Image courtesy Trixi As I wrestle to get my home-built pedicab legal for passengers in my fair metropolis of Austin, Texas (more on that in a later post), this article reminds me that I could have it significantly worse. My favorite part: Council Speaker Christine Quinn makes a face. “No way. I would never get […]
LitraCon hopes to be selling light transmitting concrete later this year. Amazing looking stuff. Via optics.org “Thousands of optical glass fibers form a matrix and run parallel to each other between the two main surfaces of every block,” explained its inventor Ãron Losonczi. “Shadows on the lighter side will appear with sharp outlines on the […]
Paula at Treehugger wrote about this cool chair made from recycled printing industry cardboard tubes. From the site: Chilean design studio Onceneto teamed up with La Tercera newspaper and has been doing an interesting job recovering waste material from the paper’s print process. The first is produced with cardboard tubes from the newspaper printer paper […]
Green Upgrader has a tutorial for how to recycle newspaper into handspun yarn. Apparently you can make 20 yards of yarn from one sheet of newspaper depending on your method. It surprised me how beautiful the yarn looks. via Whip Up.
Anyone know more about this? via /. German police have confiscated what may be the world’s fastest office chair. Police say officers happened on the contraption – the work of two inventive 17-year-olds – in the western town of Gross-Zimmern on Saturday. The pair had added a lawnmower engine, bicycle brakes and a metal frame […]
