Jello Cubes Bouncing in Super Slow Motion [Video]
After watching the video below, be sure to hit this link to listen to the sound of jelly wobbling, as recorded for the first time back in 2008. [Via]
Category Archives: Science
Building Super Hard Drives with Depleted Uranium
Researchers from the University of Nottingham have come up with an idea which would allow to build “super” hard drives using a uranium compound. Check it out: [Via [H]]
Dark Matters Illustrated [Video]
Recently, Jorge Cham from Phdcomics.com sat down with Physicists Daniel Whiteson and Jonathan Feng to talk about Dark Matter and how Cern’s collider is helping answer the question: What is it? Check out the cool video he then created to go along with the recording. [Phdcomics]
Cheap New Sensor Diagnoses Infection by Smell
And in even more medical sensor news, researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a low-cost method of detecting bacterial infection using an artificial nose. To sniff out the particular strain of bacterium, a broad-sensitivity array is attached to the underside of a Petri dish lid and a sample of the patient’s blood is […]
Epic Geek E-Mail Signoff Message [Pic]
The most awesome geek e-mail signoff message of all time, courtesy of Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson.)
MacGuyvered JELL-O Detects Organ Failure
Do you have acute pancreatitis? Do you think you might but don’t have hours and hundreds of dollars to spend at the doctor waiting to find out? Well look under those couch cushions and roll some pennies, because you can build a sensor for under one dollar. Even better? It takes an hour or less […]
Royal Wedding unites the world in mathematical lunacy
This is a rant about the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. But it is not a rant about the wedding itself. Nor is it a rant about the hype surrounding the event. Instead it is a rant about a particularly ludicrous element of the hype that offends me as a rationally thinking geek. […]
Beetle Inspires Clean Water Tech
Science mimics nature once again as developers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) work out a new water-collecting device based on the Namib Desert Beetle (Stenocara gracilipes), which collects condensation from coastal fog on the bumpy surface of its back. It then tips its back and lets the water roll down into its mouth, an […]