TALLAHASSEE (WTXL) - Check out this new helpful helicopter! The U.S. department of defense has designed a new chopper that can land more easily on uneven surfaces. Instead of having the customary landing skids, engineers attached dragonfly-like legs on the chopper, making it safer to land. Once airborne, the legs collapse next to the fuselage. Ideally this new helicopter will be able to assist in high risk rescue operations.
Time to breathe easy, this brand new smog free tower was built in Holland and actually purifies the air. Using wind energy, it sucks in unclean air and ionizes it by giving the particles a positive charge. Designers say it can clean a million cubic feet of air every hour and it makes noticeable differences in the air quality of neighborhoods. Officials in Mexico City, Paris, and Beijing are all interested in constructing towers like this.
And finally now you see it, now you don't. Researchers say they've spotted an octopus doing something they've never seen before, burrowing completely underground. It all happened off the coast of Australia. After scientists shined a light on the eight-legged creature, it shot a jet of water into the sediment, forming quicksand. It then sunk into its new-found hiding spot, and created a chimney to breathe by keeping a tentacle close to the surface.
