To help illustrate the process of radioactive decay, Swedish nuclear scientists and musicians teamed up and formed the Radioactive Orchestra, which translate the isotopes’ different energy levels into sound frequencies. The result is questionable in terms of listen-ability, but the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology and the Nuclear Safety & Training organization’s project overall is […]
These millimeter-long microbots can swim and move other, heavier objects. Made up of grouped microparticles and powered by magnets, they arrange into tiny little starbursts and kind of swim around… then, because they can, the microbots unhinge their jaws(?!) and grab non-magnetic objects and move them about. In fact, it’s eerily similar to watching a […]
Apollo Surface Panoramas houses the photographic panoramas taken by the Apollo astronauts while hanging out on the Moon. The imagess are stitched together from individual 70mm Hasselblad frames, which you can also find in the Lunar and Planetary Institute’s online catalog. To explore the 32-megapixel images, just use the pan and zoom controls at the […]
“Placebos: pretty freakin’ weird.” That just about sums it up. Created by: Daniel Keogh – http://www.twitter.com/ProfessorFunk Luke Harris – http://www.lukeharrisgraphics.com [sciencecenter]
If you’ve ever dreamed of staying up late chatting with NASA astronomers while watching the Perseids streak across the sky, tonight might be the best of your life. And even if you aren’t all OMGNASA, you can still catch a glimpse of the meteor shower if you’re in the right place (and the moon doesn’t […]
Add TrES-2b to the list of strange exoplanets discovered in recent years. The newly discovered supergiant gas giant is so black only 1% of light it receives is reflected. That’s darker than coal or black paint or closing your eyes and covering them with your hand. It’s blacker than anything found on Earth, even the […]
Three men who were suffering from advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) are now healthy and cancer-free, thanks to a pair of clinical studies for a promising new gene therapy. The results, announced Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine and Science Translational Medicine, have medical researchers in thrall: “I’m getting goosebumps,” says University of Pennsylvania pathologist Michael Kalos, lead author of one […]
Livejournal user quaint_idea made these cupcakes for his last ever physics lesson. Check out the black hole cupcake below as it devours a small star. Poor little thing. [Source | Via]