One Giant LEAF For Mankind?

It always seems like mankind is getting closer to inhabiting outer space, but mainly one thing has been holding us back: the problem that is oxygen. Plants can't grow in zero gravity without carbon dioxide and anyway, keeping an indefinite oxygen supply isn't feasible. Enter the 'Silk Leaf": a man made "plant" that can actually manufacture endless oxygen using light and water.

Julian Melchiorri wanted a way to produce oxygen in the harsh environment of interstellar travel, so he did it. What he created is an artificial leaf that has chloroplasts from plants actually suspended inside. Melchiorri used a silk fiber to hold the chloroplasts in place so that it can still act like a plant but with a kind of super-structure to make it extra resistant to the conditions of space.

He extracted chloroplasts from plant cells and placed them inside a silk protein. The outcome was the first photosynthetic material that lives and breathes as a plant does. He also wanted to build off of nature's own system to take advantage of proven methods. Also, the leaves won't just be useful for investigating the Galaxy. Here on earth, they can be used as biological air filters or oxygen producers.

Robo Bird

In Germany, Dr. Heinrich made what he calls a Robobird or smart bird. There is a lot of technology inside this man made bird.  Real birds wings are very complicated.  There are several joints in a birds wings that allow the wings to bend and flex.

Awesome ways to preserve nature!

This is a video about energy.  In this video there are shown multiple ways the earth can start using renewable energy to power cars and houses. It i interesting to see how much we already know about this, all we have to do is decide that we want to preserve nature and make the world a better palace to live in fr generations to come.

5 crazy ways social media is changing your brain right now

I found this extremely interesting video about social media's effect on our brain. It talks about how for many internet users the internet has become something like a drug to them and people talk more about themself on the internet then in real life amoung other things.

3D Printing Pen

This is a commerical for 3-Doodler 3D printing pen.

 3 Doodler is a pen that is the first 3D pen.  It uses material called ABS plastic.  ABS is an acronym of Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene polymers.  A polymer is a substance thats molecular structure consists of large number of similar units that are bonded together.  There are things like plastics and resins.

 

Could technology become part of our printing life?

Have you ever thought "could 3D printers become part of our daily life in the future?" If so then you should check out the video on youtube that I have posted for you guys.

Science - Quadrotors

I like watching Outrageous Acts of Science.  This is a really cool flying device called quadrotors.