Science News proves that there’s always something new to figure out – in this case, with one of the most common and worked-with metals we know: lead. New research shows after… Read the rest “Squeezing lead makes it stronger than steel.”
Popular Science thinks they know – and the answer is literally cool:
… Read the rest “How the zebra got its stripes. (An 85-year-old researcher’s first published study!)”Now the 85-year-old amateur scientist [Allison Cobb] has published her first scientific study [in the Journal
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… Read the rest “Science Art: A Magnetic Wormhole by J. Prat-Camps, C. Navau & A. Sanchez, 2015.”(a) The field of a magnetic source (right) is appearing as an isolated magnetic monopole when passing through the magnetostatic
I’m not really that much of an electronica fan – at least not danceable electronic music – but this video is kind of awesome.
I mean, it’s awesome even though I know… Read the rest “Science Art: Cymatics, by Nigel Stanford”
This is the insignia of the 254th Combat Communications Group, a unit that’s normally part of the Texas Air National Guard, but if federalized, becomes part of the Air Force Space … Read the rest “Science Art: 254th Combat Communications Group emblem”
How a young person can launch “any number of air balloons” without the risk of setting the neighbors’ corn ricks on fire – by using a gas stove with a chimney like… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 353, Wessel’s Gas Stove”
Science Daily looks at an “optical state” – a form of light that can allow engineers to create super-fast quantum computers powered by photons:
… Read the rest “Creating a new kind of light”Try a quick experiment:
New Scientist looks closely at a tiny change with some big ramifications:
… Read the rest “Protons aren’t as heavy as we thought.”A fresh attempt to pin down its mass, with three times the precision of the previous best try, finds that the subatomic
Science News investigates the forces at play when your shoes come untied:
… Read the rest “Why do shoelaces come untied? Physics.”Mechanical engineer Oliver O’Reilly of the University of California, Berkeley was familiar with the infuriating
This is a turbine – a “turbopropulseur” – used as an example of a “réducteur” – a reducing gear. The one end spins a lot more than the other end… Read the rest “Science Art: Schéma de montage d’un turbopropulseur by Nerijp”
It’s Beltane today, May Day, a day traditionally celebrated with bonfires. Here are some smaller flames, but no less fiery.
This is a photo illustrating how, as … Read the rest “Science Art: Bunsen Burner Flame Types, by Artura Jana Fijalkowski.”
Wired reports on the successful ignition of a fire three times hotter than the sun:
… Read the rest “Chinese tokamak makes fusion happen – for more than a minute.”The march to sustainable nuclear fusion appears to have made serious progress, after a Chinese research
Not a hole that worms live in, but the kind that spaceships use to bounce around the galaxy. Science Daily explains how Spanish scientists have created a wormhole in the lab:
… Read the rest “Wormhole blueprints”Scientists in
Science magazine has an exclusive report on a fusion group that could change everything. They’ve got a reactor that works better than any power source we’ve seen yet:
… Read the rest ““Secretive company” unveils better way to do fusion. (It’s legit.)”A privately
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