Day: July 22, 2014

There’s nothing like taking the scenic route while vacationing in a new city, but the always-efficient GPS programs we navigate with simply plot the shortest route to reach a destination. But now there’s hope for the aesthetically oriented wayfarer: Researchers have designed an algorithm that charts the most beautiful route from point A to B.
Yahoo! researchers used crowd-sourced data to build a program that automatically identifies the most alluring pathways through a city. What’s more, th

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Ever wonder how bees make all those hexagons in their honeycombs? It’s not one wall at a time, which might be your first guess. Need a hint? The holes in the honeycomb don’t actually start out as hexagons! In fact, according to this study, the bees make each hole as a circular tube in a precise staggered organization (Figure 1, below). The heat formed by the activity of the bees softens the wax, which creeps along the network between the holes. The wax hardens in the most energetically favor

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The two-passenger E-Fan 2.0 will be followed up by the four-passenger E-Fan 4.0

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Comcast COO admits: "Retention agent… did a lot of what we trained him to do."

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