Cosmic Bling: Astronomers Find Planet Made Of Diamond

An international team of astronomers, led by Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology professor Matthew Bailes, has discovered a planet made of diamond crystals, in our own Milky Way galaxy.

Cosmic Bling: Astronomers Find Planet Made of Diamond

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Wallpaper Made Of Thousands Of Hand-applied Stickers

Brian Kaspr and Payton Turner's "The Salon at Sundown" features a room with elaborate wallpaper whose motif is made out of thousands of hand-placed tiny stickers.

The Salon at Sundown (via Craft)

Wallpaper made of thousands of hand-applied stickers

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Unboxed: When Innovation, Too, Is Made in China

A new Chinese government document offers a glimpse into how the nation intends to engineer a more innovative society.

Unboxed: When Innovation, Too, Is Made in China

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Saturn’s Moon Made Mountains Out of Moonlets

runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience712291018001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); SAN FRANCISCO — The bizarre ring of mountains encircling Saturn’s moon Iapetus may be the fractured remains of an icy sub-moon. Iapetus’s spiky belt, which stretches all the way around the moon’s equator, has [...]

Saturn’s Moon Made Mountains Out of Moonlets

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Saturn’s Moon Made Mountains out of Moonlets

runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience712291018001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); SAN FRANCISCO — The bizarre ring of mountains encircling Saturn’s moon Iapetus may be the fractured remains of an icy sub-moon. Iapetus’s spiky belt, which stretches all the way around the moon’s equator, has [...]

Saturn’s Moon Made Mountains out of Moonlets

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Cities made of broken technology

NYC's Agora gallery is showing the marvellous junk-tech sculptures of Italy's Franco Recchia: " he approaches each subject with that sense of innocent amazement, instinctively following a compositive and rigorous logic until each piece is laid in its correct place. What results are wonderfully distinctive pieces rich in detail, marked by crisp, clean lines and colors that work to delineate the overall composition."

Cities made of broken technology

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Home made spectrometer tells you what rainbows mean

Don't tell the Double-Rainbow guy, but all those beautiful colors really can have a deeper meaning. That's because different chemicals reflect and absorb different wavelengths of light, leaving tell-tale patterns in the rainbow. If you know what colors specific chemicals absorb, you can look at the light reflected off a sample and use the rainbow to figure out what you've got. That's basically what a spectrometer does. And blogger Charles Soeder made his own.

Home made spectrometer tells you what rainbows mean

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