A SONIC BLACK HOLE!
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 […]
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The satellite feels.
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” […]
Science Art: Energy Arc, central electrode of a Plasma Lamp..
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 […]
Return of the Supercollider
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 […]
Steampunk Laughs Last: Hydrogen from Solar.
PhysOrg.com reveals the unexpected origin of a new alternative energy technology – it isn’t new at all: …[I]t may seem a bit out of place […]
For That Atomic Guitar Sound.
New Scientist goes behind the music to tell the real story of Manchester rocker and physics prof Andrew Murray, who figured out a new way […]
Sounds that should not be.
The aptly-named NoiseAddicts online magazine delves into some unusual research as Norwegian acoustic scientists study violinist Mari Kimura, who’s able to play sounds that she […]
SONG: (We Can Blame Peter Higgs) At the Collider
SONG: “(We Can Blame Peter Higgs) At the Collider” (To download:double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: CERN progress updates throughout 2008, as used […]
Glowing under the wires.
Here, this is science art you can try at home: Ordinary fluorescent lights + power lines = GLOW. Really. You can do it yourself. That […]
LHC fires beam.
And we all just shifted back in time by 3.214 seconds. Did you feel that?
Large Hadron Rap
Yes, the LHC is exciting. I own that. But is it *this* exciting? That’s a bunch of particle physicists (I think) dancing inside the LHC […]
Unplugged.
So, the BBC is talking about one of Nikola Tesla’s dreams (he of the AC current and the plasma ball) coming true in an Intel […]
The plausibly deniable death ray.
The great thing about laser weapons, New Scientist says, isn’t just that you can fry your enemy from miles away. You can also shrug your […]
Science Art: Spitzer Infrared Launch
The Spitzer Space Telescope being sent on its way aboard a huge, hot Delta rocket, as a honeybee might have seen it. When Spitzer launched […]
Calling Doctor Manhattan….
PopSci answers the question everyone will be asking once they see The Watchmen preview and its blue-skinned nuclear superman: How worried should you be if […]