Inside Fukushima
Nature has a great look at what’s going on inside the Japanese nuclear reactor damaged by the tsunami: So, without emergency cooling, the temperature at […]
Nature has a great look at what’s going on inside the Japanese nuclear reactor damaged by the tsunami: So, without emergency cooling, the temperature at […]
In case you missed it this morning, NPR had a story about graphene, the single-atom-thin form of carbon that won its inventors a Nobel prize… […]
I’m a tarot enthusiast. I take the same approach to the cards as do the folks behind this deck – as a good way to […]
The BBC has a simulation of the sound of the Higgs boson. That’s what the harmonics of the mass-bearing subatomic particle will sound like if […]
Click to embiggen Moses Harris was an entomologist in Britain at about the time the American colonies started that unpleasantness with tea stamps and flintlock […]
Science News reports on the hottest, heaviest science ever to come out of a research lab: Talk about hot and heavy. Scientists have taken the […]
Science Daily bends my head with their report on scientists who’ve tied lasers into knots: Optical vortices can be created with holograms which direct the […]
Yeah, so the LHC really, really can’t catch a break. Not only are bizarre electrical failures, Al Qaeda operatives and time travelers out to get […]
Click to embiggen vastly Landsat 7 gave us this memorable look at clouds moving rapidly over the Aleutian Islands. These whorls happen, as any canoeist […]
PhysOrg brings back memories of Star Trek IV (the time-traveling whale one) with the revelation of a new state of matter – transparent aluminum: ‘What […]
SONG: “This is the Sound” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Acoustic Black Hole Created in Bose-Einstein Condensate”, Technology Review, […]
That sounds so totally metal, doesn’t it? Technology Review explains how to make a sound so heavy, no light can escape: One of the many […]
BBC News reports on a new kind of observational satellite overhead. It’s not looking down at us – it’s feeling our weight: As Goce “bumps” […]
Click to embiggen. This is what plasma looks like – gas that has been zapped hard enough that it’s now an electrical conductor. Thomas Crooke […]
The SpaceMarauder blog is looking forward to some singular explosions down here on Earth, thanks to the news that the Large Hadron Collider is back […]
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