Category: Science
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Robotic Micro-Scallops Can Swim Through Your Eyeballs
Designing robots on the micro or nano scale (like, small enough to fit inside your body) is all about simplicity. There just isn’t room for complex motors or actuation systems. There’s barely room for any electronics whatsoever, not to mention batteries, which is why robots that can swim inside your bloodstream or zip around your…
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Does Shaving Your Body Actually Help You Swim Faster?
Many swimmers, cyclists, runners, and body builders shave their bodies in an attempt to perform better. Does it actually help? Trace is here to discuss.
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Danish Scientists Create Crystal Which Would Allow Breathing Underwater
Scientists at the University of Southern Denmark have synthesized a crystal which could allow people to breathe underwater. Dubbed the Aquaman Crystal – perhaps by fans of the DC superhero – but really called the less catchy “[{(bpbp)Co2II(NO3)}2(NH2bdc)](NO3)2 * 2H2O”, just a spoonful bucketful [corrected by them in a youtube comment, ed.] of the material can absorb…
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East Tennessee professors to spend 73 days in underwater lab
Two professors at an East Tennessee community college plan to spend 73 days in an underwater laboratory in a unique educational endeavor that will also attempt to break a world record. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that beginning Friday, 63-year-old Bruce Cantrell and 25-year-old Jessica Fain will live in a special habitat called Jules Undersea…
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Watch vegetables get turned into juice with underwater shockwaves
Screw juicing or making kale smoothies, here’s the next big trend in what to drink: turning fruit and vegetables into juice with underwater shockwaves. The outside of the vegetable look the same after the explosion but the inside has turned into juice. Just stick a straw in and enjoy. It’s a stunt ad for Japanese…
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Watch as Great White sharks attack underwater cameras
REMUS SharkCam: The hunter and the hunted: In 2013, a team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution took a specially equipped REMUS “SharkCam” underwater vehicle to Guadalupe Island in Mexico to film great white sharks in the wild. They captured more than they bargained for.
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Your Body on Brain Doping: Red Bull team push through fatigue with neurostimulation
In the late 1990s, South African researcher Tim Noakes proposed that a “central governor” in the brain prevents us from getting too dangerously close to the absolute limits of our bodies. Physiologists have been arguing ever since about the brain’s role in determining truly “maximal” effort, but the bottom line is clear: “We know there’s…
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Myrtha admits possible current in Barcelona 2013 pool, will do better in Berlin
Read SwimVortex: Trevor Tiffany, chairman of Myrtha USA, spokesperson for A&T Europe S.p.a.’s Myrtha Pools division and the man who stripped off and took to the water with plastic bottles in Barcelona last year in an attempt to show that the company simply could not detect any evidence of a significant current, now acknowledges that…
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How does a brain-eating amoeba eat brains?
Last week, nine-year-old Hally Yust died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba infection while swimming near her family’s home in Kansas. The organism responsible, Naegleria fowleri, dwells in warm freshwater lakes and rivers and usually targets children and young adults. Once in the brain it causes a swelling called primary meningoencephalitis. The infection is almost…