Science

Burning Mercury Thiocyanide Will Amaze You

Have you ever seen a piece of mercury thiocyanide burning? If not, then hit the play button and be amazed;…

16 years ago

Fun with Helium and Sulfur Hexafluoride

Everyone here knows what happens when someone inhales helium right? Since helium is 6 times less dense than air, sounds…

16 years ago

How the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Works… For Dummies

Since the LHC has been successfully powered up yesterday and a lot of confusion remains on what CERN'S Big Bang…

16 years ago

Soda Lingo from All Over America

An article in the Journal of English Linguistics (Soda or Pop?, #24, 1996) explores the way we address our favorite…

16 years ago

LHC: Why you won’t die today

Yes folks, now that the LHC has already fired 2 beams of protons, one clock-wise, and one counter clock-wise, you…

16 years ago

Large Hadron Collider – Live!

Just a quick post to point you guys to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) live webstream. The link we've posted…

16 years ago

CERN scientists spammed with death threats over LHC activation

As the LHC's activation date approaches (only two days left now, folks!), scientists working on the super-collider have started receiving…

16 years ago

Why we don’t understand as much as we think we do

Starting with four basic questions (that you may be surprised to find you can't answer), Jonathan Drori looks at the…

16 years ago

The astonishing promise of DNA folding (Video)

In 2007, Paul Rothemund gave TED a short summary of his specialty, DNA folding. Now he lays out in clear,…

16 years ago

Little Girl, Big Gun [Video]

By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] This is possibly the most frightening thing I've ever seen.  I mean sure she's…

16 years ago