HOW TO: Make a Dry Ice Bubble
A fun little experiment you can try at home using a simple round plastic container, a strip of cloth, some dry ice, and a soapy solution. Check it out:
Category Archives: Science
The Pentatonic Scale
In the following video, Bobby McFerrin, best known for his 1988 hit song “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”, demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale, using audience participation, at the event “Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus”, from the 2009 World Science Festival, June 12, 2009. [Via Neatorama]
TV review: Bang Goes The Theory
In most TV markets, it’s hard to imagine the largest network broadcasting a science show in a prime-time slot on its main channel. However, that’s just what the British Broadcasting Corporation is doing with Bang Goes The Theory. One reason is that the BBC is publicly funded and as such has a remit to educate […]
Lunar landings book offers the ultimate souvenir
A publisher is reprinting Norman Mailer’s articles on the Moon landings for LIFE magazine. The three-part feature was the longest nonfiction piece ever published in the magazine. But that’s not the best part. The articles are being reprinted in a collectible book along with excerpts from Mailer’s book “Of a Fire On The Moon” and […]
Computer Wizardry Changes Age, Race and Gender
Have you ever wondered what you’d look like if you had a different racial background? How about seeing yourself as a different gender? And how will you look in your later years? Well, now you can find out thanks to a project by a British university. Staff at the Perception Laboratory, based in the University […]
X-Ray GIF of a Human Speaking
This sequence is an excerpt from a 20 second X-Ray film showing a female subject pronouncing the swedish word “både”, meaning “both” in english. [Via]
Adhesive Tape Makes Frosted Glass Transparent
Ok, we have a big forehead scratcher for you today dear readers… Why does Scotch tape make frosted glass transparent? [Via [H]]
Nasa explains its Mars voyage strategies
Nasa has detailed how a hypothetical manned mission to Mars would work. But while that’s a dream, the agency is funding attempts to use private firms to cut the costs of space travel. The Mars mission is outlined in an interview with Imaginova (the firm behind Space.com) which has been syndicated to sites such as […]
Record-breaking Solar Eclipse in Asia
People in parts of India, China, and Japan enjoyed the longest total solar eclipse of this century earlier today. Maximum totality duration was six minute and 39 seconds. Folks in parts of India got to see a totality sunrise, with the sun appearing as a black hole. Seconds before the Sun was fully blocked by […]
Backyard telescope spots effects of Jupiter collision
An amateur astronomer using a home-made backyard telescope has discovered an Earth-sized smudge in Jupiter’s surface. Anthony Wesley of Murrumbateman, Australia was viewing Jupiter at around 1am local time yesterday when he spotted the damage. He told SPACE.com that he saw a dark spot rotating near the planet’s south pole; his records showed the same […]