Converting Aircraft Wind into Energy, Fossilized Bee Puzzles Scientists, and TDIH: Nylon Invented
Feb 28, 2025•18 min
Episode description
Today’s episode brings us the converting of aircraft wind (from jet engines) into energy, the fossilized bee that is puzzling scientists, and on This Day in History; the invention of Nylon.
US airport installs world’s first pods that turn jet blast into power | Interesting Engineering
Incredible 14.6-Million-Year-Old Fossil Bee Discovered In New Zealand | IFLScience
Scientists Just Unearthed a 14.6-Million-Year-Old "Bee Fossil"—Its Origins Don’t Make Sense | Daily Galaxy
A bee from the middle Miocene Hindon Maar of southern New Zealand (Hymenoptera, Colletidae) - Scientific Publications of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris
Nylon and the Double Helix
Wallace Hume Carrothers
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