Science Art: Lecture 2, Figure 5, from Lectures on Ventilation,
Click to embiggen from Lectures on Ventilation (1869) by Lewis W. Leeds, via Public Domain Review. The invisible made visible.
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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: [David] Pares’ garage is exactly as it […]
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 […]
Science Art: Bldng40cropped.jpg (CERN office building 40), by Gillis Danielsen.
Click to embiggen This is where European scientists work on experiments for the Compact Muon Spectrometer and Atlas, the project that found the Higgs boson. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 the kind of person who hunts […]
Science Art: Bodendruckapparat nach Pascal by Max Kohl
Click to embiggen This is an illustration of a model of a paradox – they hydrostatic paradox, as demonstrated by Blaise Pascal. The paradox is […]
“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: Imagine a cell phone charger that recharges your phone […]
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: “It happens like magic,” says Dirk […]
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 […]
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 […]
Turning on the first tractor beams.
BBC reports on three ways scientists are bringing tractor beams into reality: The $100,000 (£63,000) award will be used to examine three laser-based approaches to […]
Science moves overseas.
That’s the gist of this somewhat mournful piece in The Economist regarding America shuttering its largest particle accelerator: It already looks likely that the successor […]