This is the Blue Marlin. A semi-submersible heavy lift ship from Dockwise Shipping of the Netherlands, it is designed to transport very large semi-submersible drilling rigs. Above the transport ship’s deck, it is equipped with 38 cabins to accommodate 60…
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is the main UK government agency for funding research and training in engineering and the physical sciences, investing more than £800 million a year in a broad range of subjects – from mathematics…
Beneath the blue waters 100m off the coast of Noli in northwest Italy lies a cluster of balloon-like pods pegged to the seabed by ropes half a dozen or so meters long. Inside, a range of produce is being grown,…
That is a moth. Seriously. The world looks quite different when you zoom in on it. Our arrogance makes us view the universe with the presumption that we are the base size for measurement… things are either smaller, or larger…
This is the Wintergatan Marble Machine, built by Swedish musician Martin Molin. This impossible to comprehend ‘instrument’ is a hand-made music box that powers a kick drum, bass, vibraphone and other instruments using a hand crank and 2,000 marbles. To conceive…
That is a ‘Zipper Truck’ created by construction company Lock Block, Ltd. Using concrete blocks that interlock, much like LEGOs, the truck is designed to drop blocks together extremely fast (relatively speaking) to build tunnel structures that can be used…
This is a walking machine powered by nothing more than an electric drill and some mad genius. Check the video below for a detailed build on how this creature came about. The creator goes by the name of Izzy Swan,…
This is Vantablack. It is blacker than black, and soon to be the name of about 50 metal bands. It is comprised of millions of carbon nanotubes and absorbs 99.96% of all light, making it the blackest substance on Earth.…
It is a universal fact… cats like boxes. So science decided to find out if large, carnivorous, potentially deadly cats like boxes. So they tossed some in with some various breeds and recorded the results. For science.
This is a hummingbird. They are the smallest extant (meaning, still alive, as opposed to extinct) bird species. And the smallest hummingbird… is the bee hummingbird, who weighs about as much as a penny. But it is their unique style…