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China Moves Closer to Developing True Cloaking Technology

China Moves Closer to Developing True Cloaking Technology

Researchers at China’s Southeast University of Nanjing have moved closer to cloaking technology by being able to alter an object’s appearance on radar scopes. Continue reading

Mystery Image: Chemical, Bacterial, or Astronomical?

Mystery Image: Chemical, Bacterial, or Astronomical?

Mats of extremophile bacteria? Bio-colonized pigments in an ancient aboriginal petroglyph? Or an image of our nearest planetary neighbor? Answer after the jump. Continue reading

Mystery image: animal, vegetable, extraterrestrial?

Mystery image: animal, vegetable, extraterrestrial?

A slime mold attacking bacteria in a petri dish? Marbling on the endpapers of a rare first edition of Galileo’s Starry Messenger? Methane storms on one of the Jovian moons? Answer after the jump. Continue reading

DIY: USB Missile Launcher

Pesky trespassers, beware! This USB missile launcher is outfitted with a radar that picks up enemy movement in its field of vision. The instructions to make one are provided with a circuit board layout and a free download of the C# code to run it. Just plug this missile launcher into your PC and you’ll be scanning for Charlies in to time. Link (via)