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Yo dawg, I heard you like solar power, so I put some solar power in your 3D printer so you can solar power while you 3D print.
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Incredibly, these hacks got the full inside stories on serial killers Heath, Haigh and Christie, and in return paid their legal defence costs - in two cases, they made substantial payments to the families of two of the killers after they were executed.
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A 3D printer that uses chocolate has been developed by University of Exeter researchers - and it prints layers of chocolate instead of ink or plastic.
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Police are investigating evidence that a News International executive may have deleted millions of emails from an internal archive, in an apparent attempt to obstruct Scotland Yard's inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal.The archive is believed to have reached back to January 2005 revealing daily contact between News of the World editors, reporters and outsiders, including private investigators.
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Torresol's 19.9 megawatt (MW) concentrating solar power plant
became the first ever to generate uninterrupted electricity for 24 hours
straight. The plant uses a Power Tower design which features a field of 2,650 mirrors that concentrate sunlight onto a boiler in a central receiver
tower. The plant also utilizes molten salt as a heat transfer fluid that
allows it to generate electricity when there's no sunlight.
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"If sex was merely for increasing genetic diversity, it would not have evolved in the first place," said Heng. This is because asexual reproduction -- in which only one parent is needed to procreate -- leads to higher rates of genetic diversity than sex.