How NOT To Handle LN2 [Video]
Warning: Do NOT try this at home. In fact, Do NOT try this EVER. I’m a bit surprised that this guy still has fingers after this “experiment” [Via [H]]
Category Archives: Science
IBM takes atomic approach to hard drive
There are 12 inches in a foot. There are 12 months in a year. And thanks to IBM, there are 12 atoms in a bit. The company says it’s found a way of dramatically decreasing the space it takes to store computer data, raising the possibility of huge increases in storage capacity and utterly shattering […]
Stephen Hawking and The Equation for Time Travel
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RSA Animate – The Divided Brain [Video]
In this new RSAnimate, renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our ‘divided brain’ has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society. Taken from a lecture given by Iain McGilchrist as part of the RSA’s free public events programme. [RSA Animate]
Neil deGrasse Tyson on America’s Science Decline
In the following video, Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about how the amount of peer reviewed science research being done in America has gone down since 2000, and gone up in other places of the world. [Via Videosift]
SPF Awesome: Sunscreens Explained [Video]
The Professor – donning his clip-on shades – is at Bondi Beach in Australia for a discussion about sunscreen. [Periodic Videos]
Science is Awesome! [Pic]
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Spare Parts for Humans: Tissue Engineers Aim for Lab-Grown Muscles, Limbs, Lungs and More [Video]
A new research breakthrough has enabled scientists from the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh to grow human tissue to repair or replace organs, and someday, maybe even limbs. [Via BoingBoing]