Wednesday, March 20, 2013

[Science] Bezos Salvage Team Plucks Apollo Rocket Engines from Atlantic

Bezos Salvage Team Plucks Apollo Rocket Engines from Atlantic
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/amazon-ceo-recovers-apollo-engines-atlantic-18774358
A salvage expedition funded by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos on Wednesday reported that it had successfully recovered a pair of Apollo Program rocket engines from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

Trout found that gorges, starves itself to survive
http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/03/20/some-alaskan-trout-use-flexible-guts-for-the-ultimate-binge-diet/
Two UW graduate students discovered that Dolly Varden in Alaska feast on sockeye-salmon eggs for one month, then go without the rest of the year.

Pew Pew! Scientists Build Lasers Out of Sound, Call Them Phasers
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/sound-lasers-phasers/
A false-color scanning electron microscope image of the etched circuit that produces the sound laser. Courtesy Imran Mahboob. Using a nanoscale drum, scientists have built a laser that uses sound waves instead of light like a conventional laser.

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