Hear about a slingshot launching payloads into space, the impressively modern looking world’s oldest pants, and how moth wings are able to absorb sound to avoid detection from bats.
A different kind of slingshot.
- “NASA Will Test Gigantic Centrifuge for Hurling Objects Into Space” by George Dvorsky
- https://gizmodo.com/nasa-will-test-gigantic-centrifuge-for-hurling-objects-1848784359
- “NASA to Test SpinLaunch, a Giant Slingshot for Launching Satellites Into Space” by Eric Mack
- https://www.cnet.com/science/space/nasa-to-test-spinlaunch-a-giant-slingshot-for-launching-satellites-into-space/
Very very old pants.
- “The world’s oldest pants are a 3,000-year-old engineering marvel” by Kiona Smith
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/the-worlds-oldest-pants-are-a-3000-year-old-engineering-marvel/
- “The world’s oldest pants stitched together cultures from across Asia” by Bruce Bower
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pants-oldest-ancient-horseman-asia-culture-origin
Moth sound absorbers.
- “Moth wing-inspired sound absorbing wallpaper in sight after breakthrough” by The University of Bristol
- https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2022/june/moth-wing-inspired-sound-absorbing-wallpaper.html
- “Moth wings as sound absorber metasurface” by Thomas R. Neil, Zhiyuan Shen, Daniel Robert, Bruce W. Drinkwater and Marc W. Holderied
- https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2022.0046
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