News tagged with lego
Lego pirate proves, survives, super rogue wave
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have used a Lego pirate floating in a fish tank to demonstrate for the first time that so-called ‘super rogue waves’ can come from nowhere in apparently calm seas and ...
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Growing bones with Lego
A video produced for Google Science Fair shows how researchers at Cambridge making synthetic bone have turned to legendary children’s toy Lego for a helping hand.
Mar 28, 2012 |
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How to build doughnuts with Lego blocks
Scientists have uncovered how nature minimises energy costs in rings of liquids with an internal nanostructure made of two chemically discordant polymers joined with strong bonds, or di-blocks, deposited on ...
Dec 21, 2011 |
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ESA's Rosetta comet-chaser goes LEGO
(PhysOrg.com) -- What does a scientist do to visualise a space journey? Build a model, of course. A model of Europe's Rosetta comet-chaser made out of LEGO blocks started out in this small way and has grown ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 22, 2010 |
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Is Model-Making Really Child's Play?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Children are stalled by the same thinking processes as adults when they assemble models, according to new research.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 21, 2010 |
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Nanoshell structures: Self-assembly method yields materials with unique optical properties
Scientists from four U.S. universities have created a way to use Rice University's light-activated nanoshells as building blocks for 2-D and 3-D structures that could find use in chemical sensors, nanolasers ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 27, 2010 |
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Researchers develop molecular 'LEGO kit' to create nano-cubes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have devised a molecular 'LEGO toolkit' which can be used to assemble a vast number of new and functional chemical compounds.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 17, 2010 |
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Lego expands its universe with online game
Danish toy maker Lego is seeking to build a presence in the world of multiplayer online games with the release of a new videogame called Lego Universe.
Jan 10, 2010 |
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Toy Robot to Solve Sudoku (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Swedish programmer, Hans Andersson, has used a Lego Mindstorms NXT kit to develop a robot to solve Sudoku puzzles.
Sep 03, 2009 |
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LEGO toy helps researchers learn what happens on nanoscale
Johns Hopkins engineers are using a popular children's toy to visualize the behavior of particles, cells and molecules in environments too small to see with the naked eye. These researchers are arranging little ...
Aug 25, 2009 |
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