Space Slingshot, Ancient Modern Pants, Lifesaving Silence
Hear about a slingshot launching payloads into space, the impressively modern looking world\u2019s oldest pants, and how moth wings are able to absorb sound to avoid detection from bats.
A different kind of slingshot.
- \u201cNASA Will Test Gigantic Centrifuge for Hurling Objects Into Space\u201d by George Dvorsky
- \u201cNASA to Test SpinLaunch, a Giant Slingshot for Launching Satellites Into Space\u201d by Eric Mack
Very very old pants.
- \u201cThe world\u2019s oldest pants are a 3,000-year-old engineering marvel\u201d by Kiona Smith
- \u201cThe world\u2019s oldest pants stitched together cultures from across Asia\u201d by Bruce Bower
Moth sound absorbers.
- \u201cMoth wing-inspired sound absorbing wallpaper in sight after breakthrough\u201d by The University of Bristol
- \u201cMoth wings as sound absorber metasurface\u201d by Thomas R. Neil, Zhiyuan Shen, Daniel Robert, Bruce W. Drinkwater and Marc W. Holderied
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