For years we have been making seven layer density columns. We challenged our team to not only add two more liquids, but add seven objects that would float at different levels. The outcome… the Amazing 9 Layer Density Tower! [Via]
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A new song by the always excellent Coma Niddy, which should come in handy for this year’s NanoTechnology-themed National Chemistry Week (Oct 21-27.) [Coma Niddy]
Students from the University of Maryland are trying to build a human-powered helicopter that can hover at least a minute, reach a height of 3 meters (10 feet), and stay within a 10-meter distance from its liftoff point, all this in order to win the $250,000 . It’s difficult to build a working four-rotor helicopter […]
On August 29, 2012, NASA took this pic of the Cookie Monster on Mercury. Anyone Else Think This Looks Like the Cookie Monster? Ok, so maybe it’s just me. But the superposition of younger craters on older craters (in this case two smaller craters upon the rim of an older crater) can result in landforms […]
You’ve heard Bill! Now do your part to help! Bill Nye needs your help! We’re writing the President of the United States, asking him to restore the funding cuts to NASA’s planetary exploration program. [Planetary.org/SOS]
Ever thrown something in the washing machine, even though it didn’t really need a full wash? Later regretted that decision because the piece of clothing has come out just a little bit stretched out and a little more worn down? Well Lisa Marie Bengtsson, a London designer, wanted to come up with a solution. The […]
Over the night of 4-5 October 2012, the Sun decided things were getting a bit boring in the solar system and decided to inject some fun. Perhaps eject is a better term. The Sun flung off a bunch of energetic particles in what is known to the astro nerds as a coronal mass ejection. The […]