The wreckage of a World War II-era Soviet jet was discovered in rural Hungary, along with some of its pilot’s personal items, according to the Hungarian Museum of Military History and local media. Excavators unearthed the Soviet Yakovlev Yak-1 fighter aircraft from about 17 feet underground in the central Hungarian village of Törtel, which is located about […]
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RC Test Flight Goes Self-Driving to See if R/C Cars Can Hit 100,000 Scale Miles on a Buried Wire
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Four years after Daniel Riley first lashed remote-control crawlers to a backyard tether and asked whether any of them could rack up 100,000 scale miles, he ran the experiment again. This time the cars steered themselves. In the original 2022 test, a spinning line kept every vehicle on a circle, which also loaded one side […]
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Gavin Free of the Slow Mo Guys bought the LaCie 12big Thunderbolt 3 in 2019 because twelve 14TB 7200-rpm enterprise drives packed 168 terabytes into one desktop tower and Thunderbolt 3 could shove footage across at up to 2600 megabytes per second. That kind of space and speed made sense for years of high-frame-rate video. […]
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Ig Nobel prizes go to scientists studying cockroach milk, nose-blowing, buried underwear, more
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Ten research teams were honored Thursday at a satirical science awards ceremony that was hosted outside the U.S. for the first time due to travel concerns. Researchers who studied milk from cockroaches and analyzed soil health using underwear received Ig Nobel prizes celebrating unusual and imaginative contributions to science. The awards, organized by a digital […]
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The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the blackened landscape: rusty bombs and mines from World War I and II that threaten crews responding to the flames. Some of the weapons have exploded in the intense heat. Blasts have been reported in France, Belgium, Germany and the […]
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Woman murdered in 1936 and buried underneath building is finally identified: “One of Toronto’s oldest mysteries”
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The remains of a woman murdered nearly a century ago and buried beneath a building have finally been identified thanks to modern forensic testing. The woman was identified as Mary McLeod Moffat (née Davidson), a Scottish national who immigrated to Canada with her family in 1913, according to police and the laboratory that performed the […]