Creating the illusion of a static flow of water using sound. Of course this isn’t my idea and plenty more refined examples already exist. So, anyone out there who can explain how this illusion was created? Let us know in the comments section below! [Mrbibio]
We’re looking at the original lamp designed by Sir Humphry Davy. It revolutionized safety in coal mines and prevented countless methane explosions. [Periodic Videos | Picture Source: Wikimedia Commons]
We don’t exactly think of snails as dynamic, but it turns out they can generate electricity. Researchers are now looking for ways to turn tiny creatures into tools, and even harness power in a similar way from the human body and avoid the need for batteries in implanted medical devices. A team at Clarkson University […]
New videography techniques have opened up the oceans’ microscopic ecosystem, revealing it to be both mesmerizingly beautiful and astoundingly complex. Marine biologist Tierney Thys has used footage from a pioneering project to create a film designed to ignite wonder and curiosity about this hidden world that underpins our own food chain. [Source: The Plankton Chronicles […]
The moon may be 1.3 light-seconds away, but why on earth do we measure distances using time? [Minute Physics]
Last year I jokingly wrote that graphene would be a dead cert if there were an awards ceremony for material of the year. It turns out the hits keep on coming in 2012: researchers at Berkeley believe graphene could make it easier to study liquids with a microscope. Graphene is made up of a single […]
This video shows how scientists at the MIT Media Lab reconstruct a hidden object using scattered laser light. Future applications may include seeing in dangerous or inaccessible locations, such as inside machinery with moving parts, or in highly contaminated areas. [Via The Presurfer]
Stranger than fiction… molecular conflict and mitochondrial warfare … a heartstopping, subcellular epic … a truly microcinematic experience … “as an enthusiast for little things, I wanted to go deeper than the macro universe, so I found myself hanging on the eyepiece of a microscope. The real challenge was definitely the small depth of field […]