Most people would be happy on a day that they see just one Ferrari. During the recent Ferrari Racing Days at Silverstone Circuit event in the U.K., onlookers got to see not one, but more than 900 Ferraris circling the track in a grand spectacle. The event is on its way to being certified as the largest Ferrari parade in history, almost doubling the previous record holder.
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According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration less than five percent of the world’s oceans have been explored, meaning that 95% of what lies deep underwater on Earth has yet to be seen by human eyes.

One person who has dedicated his life to photographing the mysteries of the deep is Japanese photographer Yoji Ookata who obtained his scuba license at the age of 21 and has since spent the last 50 years … Read More → "Mysterious underwater ‘crop circle’ art discovered off the coast of Japan"

Recent reports have shown that it’s possible to power the entire world with wind power, but scientists at Standford University conducted a more focused study that delivered the first-ever quantitative analysis of offshore wind energy on the US East Coast. The study states that there is enough wind energy available to fulfill one-third of the US energy demand with thousands ofoffshore wind turbines.
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Ever since Ray Bradbury, science fiction guru and author of works like The Martian Chronicles, passed away back in June, folks have been tossing around the idea of renaming something in Los Angeles after the late writer. Recently, the idea came to rename an intersection after the man. Yesterday, the Los Angeles City Council voted to rename the downtown intersection at Fifth and Flower to Ray Bradbury Square. This is somewhat amusing, as Bradbury didn’t drive.
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This is brilliant. Click and drag. (Allow some time…it’s worth it.)

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Update: Here’s another google-maps way to explore in a slightly larger window

What could you do with $3500 and an old smartphone? You could toss the phone, take the cash, and buy yourself the next best smartphone. Or, with a bit of a DIY attitude, you could push the limits of this hefty piece of technology and use it to power something else.

That’s the initial idea of the PhoneSat project, a small satellite project run by a team of engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center. The PhoneSat team has built and developed two small satellite models powered by Android smartphones, with the rest of the body … Read More → "NASA’s Android-powered mini-satellites"

In general, the cost of owning an industrial robot has dropped in recent years, but for smaller companies the notion of using an in-house robot is still an expensive and complicated affair. The affordable and easily programmable new Baxter robot wants to change all that.

Created by Rethink Robotics, Baxter has a face that looks like a tablet and simultaneously acts as an input interface and a means for detecting … Read More → "Baxter is the humanoid robot you can teach without programming"

Most wind generators use blades that look kind of like a prop plane’s propeller working in reverse, but that’s changing based on new aerodynamic research from Siemens. The result is a trio of add-ons for an existing wind turbine’s blades, which increases efficiency without costly replacement.

Scoop-like blade extensions called DinoTails are the first of the three upgrades, and increase the lift of the blade while adding a serrated edge … Read More → "Wind turbine upgrades were inspired by dinosaur shapes"

The Dark Energy Camera features 62 charged-coupled devices (CCDs), which record a total of 570 megapixels 
per snapshot. Credit: Fermilab.

Why is the expansion of the universe accelerating? We’re not quite sure. But like every other problem, we may be able to solve it with more megapixels. 570 megapixels seems like it might be enough, and Fermilab has just fired up its massive Dark … Read More → "570-megapixel dark energy camera takes first pictures of space"