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Short range chemical analysis methods exist already, but using new high power lasers one could extend the operation length to e.g aircraft.

Isabelle?

The optical setup is very simple and lightweight: a compact semi-conductor DFB laser source and an all optical fiber system for amplification and supercontinuum generation. Interesting for space applications!

YMCA revisited for enzymes and DNA

Bacterial networks communicating via thread-like membranes. Especially the video is pretty cool

Video shows how easy the process is and how cool the results look. Does anybody know a potential scientific application for such image processing?

this is very impressive indeed ... looks like the manual steps they are doing could be automatised, can't they?

Video shows how surface gravity and rotation rate of a star can be characterized from variations in its light

An ant raft stays on top of the water surface even when it is hardly pressed by a branch -- showing water repellency and buoyancy. What do Jell-O, toothpaste, and floating fire-ant rafts have in common?

It's a strategy the ants actually actively exploit in the wild: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A042J0IDQK4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r04kAnzgjR4

somebody showed such videos some years ago in one of our talks on swarm cooperation ... probably Tobias? or P. Dario? ... still impressive indeed

Invented in 2002!! A disruptive invention to illuminate shanty towns and beyond .... Makes also sense for space habitats ... paper? anyone?

And a nice video ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhHKXxEN9Q0#t=12

check the video

Surprising to who?

To MIT I guess ;-)

Wow, the two droplets that orbit each other are really cool - as is the explanation!

Did they see the video below? The drone can then dive into the water, turn into a submarine and launch amphibious vehicles or, who knows, other drones?

Add to the growing list Daniel?

An amazing video.. while science is still puzzled what actually happened

There's one very simple explanation I can think of...

I think we should have some of these in the office for teleworking. Also would be cool to interact with family back home. Check out the video (especially the Jedi light saber fight at the end)! :-D

Just pre-ordered it (should be ~200 - 250€). Unfortunately not clear yet when they will be ready to ship the items.

Zivile can you order this for me?

I will get one as soon as they put it in a spherical dome like that of Darth Vader's...

@Johannes: The Japanese version will definitely have a toilet included, of course with health analysis, automatic appointment making with the doctors, life time estimation, diet planning, etc.

Concept animation featuring notional crew operations during NASA's proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission. Very cool video.

A team of researchers at Colorado based Escape Dynamics is reporting that initial tests indicate that it might really be possible to launch space-planes into space using microwaves sent from the ground, to allow for a single stage spacecraft. If the idea pans out, the cost savings for sending satellites (or perhaps humans) into orbit could be considerable.

Not very new, but a very slick video nonetheless! Will it work? I am not so sure whether "just engineering" applies in this case. The array of antenna's required is quite significant to compensate for beam losses. Wall plug efficiency is not that high therefore, then again.. solar energy is for free almost in the future so who cares.. let's go for it! :)

Robots to the Rescue!: JPL's RoboSimian and Surrogate Robots are here to Help

Also many other interesting videos of the Karman Lectures

"In a recent paper published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) Jérôme Duplat and Emmanuel Villermaux developed a method to generate centimeter-sized vacuum bubbles in water with miniature laser-driven explosions, and observed the flash of light produced as the bubble collapsed a not-fully-understood phenomenon known as sonoluminescence." Amazingly they concluded that the temperatrue inside the bubble as it collapses is about 26000 K. At this temperatures some (not me) argue for nuclear fusion... Intriguing stuff!!! Check the videos! Yet another test for the 'Experimental Physics Stagiare' :-)?

For sure no fusion, that starts appr. from about 20keV, not 20kK. Between both there is still a factor of 11500. What I would rather expect is that the conditions are not appropriate to work with Maxwellian distribution functions. If certain fusion products should be measurable, than this would rather confirm (but not proof) the hypothesis that they do not have Maxwellians but something close to monoenergetic. But most probably they will not measure fusion products, hence no fusion, hence no confusion.