Name: What is Sewing?
Uploaded: 2015-08-06T20:11:00+00:00
Duration: 27 s
Description: This video shows how a bobbin catches and knots a thread to form a stitch that holds pieces of fabric together.

This video shows how a bobbin catches and knots a thread to form a stitch that holds pieces of fabric together.

<p>This Design Squad Nation animation shows how a bobbin catches and knots a thread to form a stitch that holds pieces of fabric together.</p>

What is Sewing?

The process typically removes 0.85 tonnes of carbon dioxide for every tonne of biomass -- but will it go to scale?

Could competing demands for the agricultural waste be an issue?

Charm transforms plant waste into a sticky mix of biochar and bio-oil.

Charm Industrial removes carbon from the atmosphere by leveraging photosynthesis that captures CO2 in plant biomass. Still, how dependable, scalable, and economical will the technique be?

Photos: The technology turning agricultural waste into 'sticky' bio-oil for permanent carbon storage

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Nixie tubes.

Dalibor Farny, who claims to the be the only person in the world making Nixie tubes, talks about his mammoth-sized project that has consumed his life. Farny's work includes making calibrated displays for NASA and Nixie tube clocks for exhibitions.

Breathing new life into obsolete tech: Dalibor Farny makes Nixie tubes from scratch

New research shows a direct interaction between dark matter particles and those that make up ordinary matter.

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New research shows a direct interaction between dark matter particles and those that make up ordinary matter, contradicting the current prevailing theory of the universe.

Dark matter behavior may conflict with our best theory of the universe

Are killer robots about to take over the world? Here’s what the experts have to say.

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Rise of the machines – The Blueprint

The hypersonic detonation wave engine was tested earlier this year.

Representational image: A distinctive vapor cone forms around the jet as it nears the speed of sound.

Chinese researchers claim to have created the "world's first" hypersonic detonation wave engine, which can propel a plane at Mach 9, nine times the speed of sound, using inexpensive jet fuel.

China claims ‘world’s first’ kerosene-powered engine could propel jets nine times the speed of sound

This fossil is so rare, that any information learned from it will help us understand so much more about this animal.

Wiley Prewitt found the jawbone of the American lion near Rosedale.

A drought-stricken river led to one the biggest discoveries in the Paleontological world: A fossilized jawbone of an American lion, one that roamed 340,000 years ago.

Dried-up river exposes a rare fossil of the largest big cat on the continent, the American lion

An illustartion of an American lion

The combination of this tech is already used in spaceships, rockets, and airplanes.

Argentina player Diego Maradona outjumps England goalkeeper Peter Shilton to score with his 'Hand of God' goal during the 1986 FIFA World Cup Quarter Final at the Azteca Stadium on June 22, 1986 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Semi-automated offside technology makes fair play a norm.

Human error has made the soccer game entertaining and heartbreaking for as long as the game has existed. Some errors even lead to the countries losing World Cups. However, new technology offers hope for fairer play.

FIFA World Cup in Qatar: It's 'the hand of God' vs. the hand of technology

This isn't the first such site to have been located.

A destroyed Russian tank

Screen grab of the graveyard of Russian tanks

With stark differences in numbers claimed by Ukraine and Russia, we might never really know the extent of damage the conflict has caused Russia. These images give a clue.

Ukraine's drone finds cemetery of tanks inside Russian border

These walking spider excavators are among the ‘greatest sandpit toys in history.’

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The S2 is the ideal all-round machine for a wide variety of deployments in the toughest of terrain.

These spider excavators have stunned many tech aficionados; the obscure machines undoubtedly rate among "the greatest sandpit toys in history."

In pictures: These spider excavators came straight out of the Transformers movie

"This could help us develop new, personalized ways to diagnose and treat migraine."

Punctate deep white matter hyperintensities (WMH) on sagittal T2-weighted MRI, more prominent in the frontal lobes.

Never-before-seen images show what a migraine looks like in the brain

Cerebral microbleeds visualized as round, dark lesions.

A new study spotted enlarged perivascular spaces in migraine sufferers' brains for the first time.

What is Sewing?

How many parts can you remove from a car before it stops working? Here's the answer

Video answers what happens when a reservoir runs entirely dry

Here are the three startups that may just make nuclear fusion a reality

Dams could sustainably feed 1.15 billion people, but as a last resort

This is why astronauts complete fighter jet training

Watch the world’s largest jet engines being built

How geothermal energy can clean up the dirty footprint of EV batteries

The trade secrets of the first exercise pill

See how electric shocks appear at 1.75 million frames per second

Watch: This is how engineers build wooden skyscrapers