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Gallery: The Most Amazing Science Images of 2010
Posted 12.14.10 at 1:18 pm
Echolocation Fail
By Popular Science
Both captured wild bats and juvenile bats that had never previously encountered large bodies of water were placed in a room with smooth and textured wood, metal and plastic plates. Bats of all species
repeatedly attempted to drink from the smooth plates, but never from the textured plates.
This is because the smooth plates replicate the mirror-like echo reflection exhibited by bodies of water. Such surfaces reflect most of the bats’ echolocation energy away from it, but some energy hits the surface perpendicularly, sending an echo back directly beneath the bat. Water is the only such surface that behaves this way found in nature, so when the bats encountered similar properties in this artificial environment, they assumed the smooth plates were water.
Completing Delhi's New Subway Line
By Popular Science
A worker stands inside one of the Metro tunnels under construction in New Delhi, India, in preparation for the Commonwealth Games that took place in October. To overcome the challenges of a tight three-and-a-half-year schedule and construction underneath a densely populated city, engineers used 14 tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) to dig the underground thoroughfare.
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Tube-Nosed Fruit Bat
Piotr Naskrecki/iLCP Popular Science. Edited by Rainbow Posts
We here at PopSci can't get enough of this tube-nosed fruit bat, a rare species found in Papua New Guinea this year who looks like Yoda, but more adorable (And the Yoda is green and here he is a shaggy sheep white). He's the unofficial mascot of our chat room. The bat, which still does not have a name (beyond Yoda Bat, of course), was observed by Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program researchers in New Guinea's mountainous Muller Range. if You ask me Another good name for him would be SheepCorn, because it also looks like a sheep (with its fur being shaggy sheep white) and he sort of looks like a unicorn, exept, with 2 horns. ha!
Oscar the Cat
via Irish Times throuh popular science and finally edited by Rainbow Posts. hew!
Poor Cute little kitty witty!!! He is just adorible exept for one thing... British housecat Oscar lost both his hind paws in a farming accident, an injury which normally leads to an undignified rolling cart solution. But Oscar instead received a groundbreaking surgery in which prosthetic legs were grafted directly onto his ankle bones, called an "exoprosthesis." This first-of-its-kind operation allows Oscar to walk normally.
Check out more animal modifications in our gallery. Hope you feel better!
ISS Receives a Welcome Upgrade
NASA
During a five-hour, 54-minute spacewalk, NASA astronaut Robert Behnken opens the insulation flap of a newly installed camera system for aligning modules during construction and reaches inside. He’s working on the last major American addition to the International Space Station, now 98 percent complete, with a pressurized volume of 28,947 cubic feet and a habitable volume of 12,420 cubic feet. Completed in February, the Tranquility node boasts a seven-window cupola offering a 360-degree view of Earth below.
Rescue Workers Train For Disaster
By Popular Science
In January, a missile struck a plane and two buses at Cologne-Bonn Airport in Germany, littering the tarmac with bodies: 14 dead and 77 injured. About an hour later, a suicide bomber went on to claim 23 more victims using a bomb containing cesium-137. And then everyone dusted themselves off and went home. After 17,000 hours of planning, some 1,900 police officers, firefighters, and rescue and airport workers joined in this, the airport’s largest-ever disaster-preparedness drill, where “missiles” and “radiological weapons” threatened the airport.
Largest-Ever Solar-Powered Boat
By Popular Science
In February, the Swiss company PlanetSolar SA
unveiled PlanetSolar, a floating test bed for renewable energy, during a ceremony held in Kiel, Germany. The $15-million catamaran measures 49 feet wide, 25 feet high and 102 feet long and weighs 94 tons. It is equipped with 5,380 square feet of photovoltaic solar panels, and its four motors run entirely on solar power (when it’s cloudy out, energy stored in batteries powers the boat).
It's Spelled "Eyjafjallajokull"
HALLDOR KOLBEINS/AFP/Getty Images
Drivers in Iceland head away from the Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption that began in mid-April, bringing European air travel to its knees.
Oil Globules on Orange Beach
Popular Science
Ocean waves affect an oil spill in two ways. They help carry the oil from its source to land—in this case, from the Deepwater Horizon drilling site in the Gulf of Mexico to Orange Beach on the Alabama shore—and they also churn the oil slicks into smaller globules that wash up on beaches and stick to sunbathers’ feet.
Why You Should Keep Your Face Away From Big Fireworks
Popular Science
This unlucky blast-test dummy was the star of the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s
annual July press event on the National Mall in Washington. The commission, which regulates fireworks’ explosive power, here vividly shows the potential of pyrotechnics for bodily harm. The mannequin’s Styrofoam head, filled with cornmeal to simulate brains, was close to a professional-grade explosive, with a “quick match” fuse that burns almost instantaneously. (Consumer-grade pyrotechnics have a six-second fuse.)
The commission estimates that fireworks were responsible for 9,000 injuries in the U.S. last year. Most of the injuries from firecrackers and sparklers are burns and cuts, but the decapitation demonstration is a reminder that the night can end in other ways.
The Queen, in 3-D
John Giles - WPA Pool/Getty Images
Queen Elizabeth II wears 3-D glasses on a trip to Sheffield University. Not pictured: The Queen's mind being
totally blown.
EARL, the Bowling Robot
Bowling Digital
EARL, which stands for Enhanced Automated Robot Launcher,
a hulking behemoth of a machine, is actually a tool used for specs and certification at the United States Bowling Congress (not to be confused with the United States Congress, a marginal political organization which boasts not a single expert bowling robot). The robot is capable of throwing balls anywhere between 10 and 24 mph, as well as putting a spin of between 50 and 900 rpm on its throws.
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