Photo Credit: HUS0 These were probably the guys who used to sit and watch the rain, tracing the droplet paths down the window…and wondered about the surface tension and how many droplets could merge before they were no longer a mega-droplet and simply water, streaming down the window. Led from Princeton University, an international team […]
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According to the source, this is a stop motion video, but wouldn’t it be more accurate to call it a time-lapse? I guess it doesn’t really matter, the video is still really cool anyways. [Source: Museum of London | Via LS]
Listen to Luigi Anzivino as he speaks about the intersection of magic and neuroscience, because, as Arthur C. Clark would say, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” [IFTF]
Researchers at Cern have discovered that a loose cable may have been the real reason for an apparent measurement of neutrinos exceeding the speed of light. However, another possible fault could mean the recorded speed was actually understated. As you can’t have failed to miss, staff on the Opera (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-Racking Apparatus) experiment […]
Photo Credit: NASA Earth Observatory Chicken Little, you’re finally right. The sky is starting to fall. Well, not really. It’s just that average cloud height has decreased by 1 per cent over the last decade – that’s about 30-40 metres. How? Scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand analyzed cloud height data gleaned […]
An expert on metabolism believes there may be a fundamental flaw in guidelines about weight loss through a change in diet. Dr Kevin Hall says in turn this may be deterring people from sticking with attempts to drop weight. Speaking to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Hall highlighted guidelines used by health […]
Playing Medal of Honor could improve eyesight, even among people with conditions that appear difficult to treat. That’s the conclusion of psychologist Daphne Maurer who carried out a study of six adults who had been born with cataracts, a clouding in the eye lens that can block out most subtle detail. Each of the subjects […]