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Graphic designer Kelsey Kronmiller is the creative mastermind behind this NES-themed LEGO aquarium. She told Kotakushe was inspired by a similar tank and challenged by a friend to make one herself. The results are amazing.Kronmiller said she originally wanted to model the aquarium after one of the video game’s underwater levels, but it didn’t contain “visually engaging structures” or places for the fish to hide in. So she went with the instantly recognizable first level, World 1-1....

Launching into space is more popular than ever. But the big companies often come with big price tags. That allows for smaller competitors to try and break into smaller markets. Leo Aerospace wants to launch microsatellites from a surprising place: hot air balloons.Sending balloons close to the atmosphere has some history in the military, but reusability is a big challenge for the group. So is funding.The second space race is in full effect....

The U.S. Air Force is laying the groundwork for the F-22 Raptor to serve another 42 years. That means the world’s first fifth-generation fighter, which entered service in 2006, could fly until 2060.To do so, the Raptor must remain competitive with new Russian and Chinese fighters as well as rival jets still on the drawing board. It will use open architecture computer systems, new weapons, new sensors, and artificial intelligence to stay a step ahead of the competition....

Media Platforms Design TeamNZT is the very definition of a wonder drug: It gives the user access to every part of his brain, including long-forgotten memories, obscure facts he learned 15 years ago in college, and even everything he’s . ever heardOf course, NZT doesn’t exist outside of the world of Limitless, in theaters today. In the film, Edward Morra (Bradley Cooper) is a sad-sack writer who can’t actually put pen to paper, until he gets the drug from his ex-brother-in-law and finds his world transformed....

SpaceX CRS-16, a joint rocket mission from the California-based company and NASA, is going to take off today from Cape Canaveral toward the International Space Station. There’s nothing particularly unique about SpaceX’s 16th cargo resupply mission to the ISS, except the fact that it was supposed to launch yesterday. The mission’s one-day delay was due to a curiosity—moldy mouse food.Supply missions like CRS-16 often come with scientific payloads. CRS-15, for example, came with CubeSats from the Philippines and Boeing....

How do you defeat a cancer cell? You interrupt the processes it needs to stay alive and keep causing damage. What do cancer cells need? A steady diet of calcium and potassium ions flowing in and out, for starters. Interrupting this flow, a process called ion channel disruption, works, but kills healthy cells, too. What if there was a way to target only the cancer cells and leave the healthy ones to continue their good work?...

While The Appalachian Trail (AT) tends to get all the press, the U.S.’s other long distance hiking route covers even more distance. Many say it is more beautiful too. The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) stretches more than 2,653 miles from north to south across California, Oregon, and Washington, taking backpackers from the border of Mexico all the way to Canada, while passing through some of the most stunningly gorgeous landscapes that North America has to offer....

Too much ice cream will make you sick, and too much lobbying of the Trump administration will get you more than you bargained for. So learned Honda, BMW, Ford and Volkswagen, a quartet of automakers that just negotiated a deal with California to exceed the Federal fuel economy standards that they themselves petitioned to have lowered. Be Careful What You Wish ForUnder an Obama-era rule, car companies were obligated to hit a fleet average of 54....

Media Platforms Design TeamDon’t you forget about me. Credit: Getty Images.If you’ve owned an iPhone 4, 4S, 5, or 5S, there’s a decent chance you just became, or are about to become, an ex-owner. With countless people upgrading to the new iPhone 6 or 6 Plus (yours truly included), the market is about to be flooded anew with old devices as buyers try to recoup cash from their outdated phones.Do not do this....

Media Platforms Design TeamKourou, French Guiana—On a viewing platform 3 miles away from the launchpad, Clay Mowry can see the flash of fire and plume of smoke under Ariane 5 before he hears the boom of its ignition. But when the sound waves arrive, they more than rumble air around Mowry’s ears—they vibrate his internal organs.The 165-foot-tall rocket parts the air in front of its tip with a violent ripping sound; a setting sun gives its billowing trail of smoke a lustrous orange fringe....

It seems that there’s more interest now in American craft beer than there ever has been.There’s been an explosive growth in craft brewing in the last few decades. Not just in interest and consumption, but also in the sheer number of craft breweries. Now, there’s something like 200 or 300 new breweries founded each year in the U.S., which is really quite amazing. If you look back, up until the 1980s, the beer that [Americans] mostly consumed was American light lagerbeers like Budweiser and Coors....

Media Platforms Design Team Today, Victory used the NYC International Motorcycle Show to showcase the Core design exercise/show bike. The company wanted to strip down a motorcycle to its raw essence. Victory’s CORE uses a cast-aluminum frame that houses all of the mechanicals, turning the bike essentially inside-out. There’s no conventional bodywork—the frame incorporates the fuel tank, battery box, air box and the entire electrical system. Rigid-framed, the CORE has a carved mahogany seat with integral LED tail- and turn-signal lamps....

Media Platforms Design TeamX-Men Origins: Wolverine Two-Disc Special Edition (2009)Media Platforms Design TeamStudio executives worried that the theatrical fate of X-Men Origins: Wolverine was sealed weeks before the film premiered, when an workprint was leaked onto the Internet. The resulting firestorm of bad reviews by comic fanboys based on the unfinished film only heightened its critical drubbing in the mainstream press. None of thsi stopped the movie from raking in cash at the box office, however....

Sometimes it takes a child to point out the important questions.My 8-year-old is a burgeoning amateur scientist, so he keeps up with the latest science news a little more closely than I do. He learned recently that Curiosity, NASA’s roving Martian science lab, has been detecting some rather interesting organic and chemical molecules on the red planet, some of which could be clues of life. So far it’s discovered dimethyl sulfide, methanethiol, and most surprisingly, trace amounts of oxygen....

A team of theoretical physicists have proposed that the mysterious planet thought to orbit the sun at the edge of the solar system may actually be a primordial black hole.Primordial black holes don’t form from stellar collapse. Instead, they’re ancient remnants of the formation of the universe.Bursts of gamma rays may be the key to identifying whether this primordial black hole exists.Strange things are happening at the edge of our solar system....

By now, you may have heard about Ahmed Mohamed, a 9th grade student who was arrested in Texas for bringing a homemade clock to school. The clock wasn’t a class assignment; Ahmed brought it to school to show off his impressive accomplishment. But upon seeing his creation, his teacher notified the administration, who called the local police. Ahmed was taken to a juvenile detention center in handcuffs and suspended from school for 3 days (thankfully, he won’t be formally charged)....

The Department of Defense is sending 200 soldiers from Washington state to California in an effort to combat a wildfire season that is shaping up to be historically destructive, according to Task & Purpose.Within the last month, California has faced the second and sixth most destructive individual fires in the state’s recorded history. The Mendocino Complex Fire and the Carr Fire have burned through over 300,000 acres of land, caused mass evacuations, destroyed over 1,800 homes, and killed 7....

Media Platforms Design Team3D printers have already become a go-to tool for ambitious do-it-yourselfers. Now they’re breaking down barriers for DIY scientists, who are part of an online community designing, sharing, and improving the high powered-machines once only found in research labs.“No lie, this has saved me thousands of dollars,” says Joshua Pearce, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Michigan Technological University. In an essay in the journal Science this week, Pearce, who researches photovoltaics (solar energy), praises the revolution in low-cost science made possible by crafting your own lab instruments at a steep discount....

If your cordless drill has two speed ranges, use high speed to make quick work of most hole-drilling jobs (click here for video), but switch to low for driving screws—you’ll leave less chance of overdriving or damaging the head.2. To prevent splitting, it’s a good idea to bore a pilot hole for nails in trim—especially near the ends. If you don’t have a small bit, nip off the head of a finishing nail and use it in your drill....

Media Platforms Design TeamGenerac Power Systems XG8000E Generator | $1299Using an emergency generator is both a balancing act and a guessing game: It’s tempting to try to pull as many watts from the machine as possible, but plug in too many appliances and you’ll trip the circuit breaker. The Generac Power Systems XG8000E Generator features a unique power meter called the PowerBar that indicates when the unit is approaching its limit....