Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 549
Temperatures measured in a volcanic cloud generated by the eruption of the Indonesian volcano Anak Krakatau plummed to chilling −112°F.
Mar 17 2020
Social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It will upend our way of life, in some ways forever.
Mar 28, 2020
Billionaire refuses to pay sick leave after keeping stores open because ‘God spoke to him’
Posted by Brent Ellman in category: futurism
Mar 28, 2020
Astrophysicist Brian May (of Queen!) teaches you how to play the Bohemian Rhapsody solo while in self-isolation
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Brian May is providing tutorials and a gear walkthrough for those practicing guitar in self-isolation.
Mar 27, 2020
Scientists discover moss that filters arsenic out of water, making it safe to drink
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Circa 2018
Discovery could provide environmentally friendly way to purify water contaminated by mining activity, say researchers.
Mar 27, 2020
Defense Officials See Increased Threat from Chinese Russian ChemBio Weapon
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Mar 27, 2020
Engineered Metamaterials Make Invisibility Cloaks and More
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: futurism, materials
The most common materials in the world, including plastic, steel, glass or wood have distinct molecular and chemical properties that give them intrinsic qualities, such as strength, flexibility or transparency. But an entirely different class of materials, called metamaterials, are coming onto the scene.
Artificially engineered, these materials have unique geometries and physical structures that can manipulate any mechanical or electromagnetic wave that passes through them. Metamaterials can perform a host of futuristic tricks; they can absorb sound waves to produce silence, bend light to create an invisibility cloak and dampen seismic waves to safeguard a building against an earthquake.
Metamaterial applications are numerous, but here are five of the coolest.
