Using Acoustic Resonators as Thrusters for Small Robots
There are quite a few rather unconventional methods of propulsion, but perhaps one of the more curious approaches involved Helmholtz resonance, as demonstrated by [Junsun Hwang]...
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APOD: 2026 August 18 – Perseids from Perseus
APODScienceAPODAPOD: 2026 August 18 –…Today’s APODArchiveSubmissionsIndexSearchCalendarRSSEducationAboutDiscuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe...
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Lala Batters Hawaii
The powerful storm delivered extreme rainfall and damaging winds to the state, passing the Island of Hawaiʻi as a category 1 hurricane.
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Theban tomb reveals how Egyptian burial trends evolved in time
Practices shifted from individuals buried in coffins to reusing sites for later mummy interments.
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Mars Curiosity Rover Discovers Massive Field of Polygons
The surface of Mars is home to some of the most breathtaking and awe-inspiring landscapes in the solar system. This is primarily due to the Red...
Read moreScrewworm Infections Get Worse, Government Unleashing Drone Army For Surveillance
A couple of months back, we discussed how screwworm infections had reappeared in Texas for the first time in decades. The foreign surveillance program designed to...
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Phantom Blade Zero finally shows off its interconnected game world, with exploration 'guided by 8 authentic hand-painted Chinese ink wash maps'
It's not a linear action game or an open world RPG.
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MOTHRA Shows Us A Star Being Recycled in the Helix Nebula
Astronomers used new MOTHRA telescope in Chile to image the famous Helix Nebula. They found 22 glowing shock waves where stellar debris from a dying star...
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Edison Motors Offering All-Mechanical Trucks, At Least to Start
We’ve been following Canadian startup Edison Motors for some time now, but their latest offering caught us a bit off guard– their BDE-sieries truck will be...
Read moreJohn Goerzen: AI in Debian: The Vote, Proposals, and Nuance
Let me start with a hypothesis: For human developers, using coding LLMs magnifies their difference in skill levels. I am one that rarely thinks things are...
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Ubuntu’s App Center doesn’t know what went wrong
I recently re-encountered my favourite ‘error’ dialog in Ubuntu, which is thrown by the distro’s App Center (snap-store), which is the default GUI software management tool....
Read moreEFS & FreeVxFS File-Systems Get Booted While FailFS Merged For Linux 7.3
Among the early pull requests merged today by Linus Torvalds for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle were removal of some ancient file-systems while adding in a...
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