Science Art: Lecture 2, Figure 5, from Lectures on Ventilation,
from Lectures on Ventilation (1869) by Lewis W. Leeds, via Public Domain Review.
The invisible made visible.
physics
DIY warp drive. He’s folding space in his garage.
Omaha World-Herald wants the world to know about this guy who’s building a warp drive in his garage:
… Read the rest “DIY warp drive. He’s folding space in his garage.”[David] Pares’ garage is exactly as it sounds. This is not some converted hangar
Steampunk solutions: 19th-century tech used by Sandia fusion researchers
Laboratory Equipment has more on the Helmholz coil (a bit of antique lab machinery) and how one of its strange qualities might help Sandia’s “Z machine” fusion experiment… Read the rest “Steampunk solutions: 19th-century tech used by Sandia fusion researchers”
Science Art: Bldng40cropped.jpg (CERN office building 40), by Gillis Danielsen.
This is where European scientists work on experiments for the Compact Muon Spectrometer and Atlas, the project that found the Higgs boson.
Which is to say, smart people… Read the rest “Science Art: Bldng40cropped.jpg (CERN office building 40), by Gillis Danielsen.”
Dogs poop in alignment with the Earth’s magnetic field
I can’t even begin with this one. But yes, researchers at the Czech University of Agriculture have determined that dogs orient themselves to magnetic north when excreting:
… Read the rest “Dogs poop in alignment with the Earth’s magnetic field”We measured
Science Art: The Sodium D-line Observed with a Four-Prism Spectroscope by Florence Museo FirST
One of a series of videos in which white-gloved technicians from the Florence Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica (Science and Technics Foundation) operate antique scientific equipment, demonstrating… Read the rest “Science Art: The Sodium D-line Observed with a Four-Prism Spectroscope by Florence Museo FirST”
Lasers make the power of tomorrow.
BBC looks ahead to a brighter future… at least as far as our energy supply is concerned. Fusion reactors have gotten one small step closer, using lasers that zap hydrogen into heavier… Read the rest “Lasers make the power of tomorrow.”
Meet the woman who found “the God particle”.
FT.com introduces us to the genteel, cultured Fabiola Gianotti – accomplished pianist, paleontologist’s daughter, coffee enthusiast, trained classicist… and… Read the rest “Meet the woman who found “the God particle”.”
Science Art: Bodendruckapparat nach Pascal by Max Kohl
This is an illustration of a model of a paradox – they hydrostatic paradox, as demonstrated by Blaise Pascal. The paradox is that the pressure at the bottom of a column… Read the rest “Science Art: Bodendruckapparat nach Pascal by Max Kohl”
“Once time runs backwards, we’ll….” Now wait a minute. What?
PhysOrg gets non-linear with their look at “time reversal” and how we might soon use it:
… Read the rest ““Once time runs backwards, we’ll….” Now wait a minute. What?”Imagine a cell phone charger that recharges your phone remotely without even knowing
Fear of crowds – it might not be so irrational.
The Atlantic reveals the fluid dynamics of deadly mob disasters that shows how crowds can be so blindly powerful:
… Read the rest “Fear of crowds – it might not be so irrational.”“It happens like magic,” says Dirk Helbing, a professor in
World’s largest laser gets just a little larger (and closer to making fusion happen).
Scientific American makes me jealous of the physicists at Livermore’s National Ignition Facility, who get to utter orders like, “Now, my assistants! Fire the FUSION LASER!”… Read the rest “World’s largest laser gets just a little larger (and closer to making fusion happen).”
Plasma balls kill cholera, E. coli and Mad Cow.
Yeah, those funky electronic gizmos that sit on your desk and look oh sparkly! and not much else? Science Daily reports that they can turn water into an antibiotic:
… Read the rest “Plasma balls kill cholera, E. coli and Mad Cow.”University of California,
Turning on the first tractor beams.
BBC reports on three ways scientists are bringing tractor beams into reality:
… Read the rest “Turning on the first tractor beams.”The $100,000 (£63,000) award will be used to examine three laser-based approaches to do what has until now
Science moves overseas.
That’s the gist of this somewhat mournful piece in The Economist regarding America shuttering its largest particle accelerator:
… Read the rest “Science moves overseas.”It already looks likely that the successor to the