Spray-on Clothing: It’s Headed Your Way…

n one of the coolest (but least life-changing) developments over the last year or so, scientists at Imperial College London have created a revolutionary technology: Spray-on Clothing. In this case, I suppose that the “scientists” can also be referred to as “fashion designers,” especially as the concoction was created by one of each. The scientist is chemical engineer and professor of particle technology, Paul Luckham, and the fashion designer is concept creator and founder of the company “Fabrican,” Manuel Torres.

The “spray-on” part might make the process sound a little messy, but it is actually relatively tidy.

To find out how they are made, see: http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/spray-on-clothing/

Image Credit: Manel Torres

How to Help Science: BOINC and Team FQTQ

Did you know you can help cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, search for extraterrestrials, run particle acceleration simulations, and help construct a 3-D map of the Milky Way without ever leaving your home?

Meet BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), an open source middleware system for volunteer and grid computing. The intent of BOINC is to make it possible for researchers in science, math, molecular biology, climatology, and astrophysics to tap into the enormous processing power of personal computers around the world.

Learn more about this amazing crowd-computing effort (and how to get the software) here: http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/how-to-help-science-boinc-and-team-fqtq/

Know Your Scientist: Nikola Tesla

Once in a century a genius of Nikola Tesla’s magnitude is born who ushers in a new age of consciousness, imagination, and creativity. Sometimes humanity is ready for such genius. Other times it is incapable of absorbing the paradigm shift—the new ideas that appear to be out of sync with established scientific truths.

So, why exactly is Tesla regarded as a trailblazer in science? Find out: http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/know-your-scientist-nikola-tesla/

Unedited Image Source: http://wallpapersmap.com/nikola-tesla-hd-wallpaper.html

Sci-fi Becomes Sci-fact: Star Wars-style Holograms on the Proverbial Horizon

Announcements about technological strides like this make me very happy to be alive at this moment in time. According to scientists, who hail from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holograms similar in many ways to the those featured in the Star Wars movies (with Princess Leia) have been developed that can be produced inexpensively. Hopefully soon, gone will be the days of conventional 3D movies (the kind that give us awful headaches, or make us want to puke).

But how do they work? http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/sci-fi-becomes-sci-fact-star-wars-style-holograms-on-the-proverbial-horizon/

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