What is a Neutrino? [Video]
Neutrinos are the vampires of physics. [minutephysics]
Category Archives: Science
Brian Cox Demonstrates Why Atoms Are Empty
Wrist action FTW! :) Brian Cox gives a science lesson to celebrities. The comedian Simon Pegg and physicist Jim Al-Khalili help him explain standing waves in a demonstration to show why atoms are so large and empty. [Via Videosift]
The Birth of a Star [Video]
“This movie presents a visualization of the star-forming region known as S106. This unique three-dimensional view illustrates and emphasizes that many of the objects contained within astronomical images are not at the same distance, but, in fact, spread across light-years of space. The Hubble image is augmented with additional field-of-view from the Subaru Infrared Telescope. […]
Ultrasound surgery: Healing without cuts [Video]
Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. At TEDMED, Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble spots and focused ultrasound to treat such issues as brain lesions, uterine fibroids and several kinds of cancerous growths. [Youtube]
The Magic of Color-Coded Surgery [Video]
Surgeons are taught from textbooks which conveniently color-code the types of tissues, but that’s not what it looks like in real life — until now. At TEDMED Quyen Nguyen demonstrates how a molecular marker can make tumors light up in neon green, showing surgeons exactly where to cut. [TED]
Visualizing Light in Motion at a Trillion Frames Per Second [Video]
You’ve all seen those awesome videos where people capture items in motion at 1,000’s of frames per second, right? You think that’s impressive? Well, it sure is, but compared to this new camera from the folks at MIT, it really isn’t. Check it out. We have built an imaging solution that allows us to visualize […]
Google Launches YouTube for Schools [Video]
YouTube for Schools lets schools access free educational YouTube videos while limiting access to other YouTube content. Students can learn from more than 400,000 educational videos, from well-known organizations like Stanford, PBS and TED, and from up-and-coming YouTube partners with millions of views, like Khan Academy, Steve Spangler Science and numberphile. Schools can also customize […]
The Pyro Board: Fire + Sound Waves = Awesomeness [Video]
I’m pretty sure you’ve all seen this trick done with corn starch or salt, but I’ve never heard of anyone doing it with fire! Be sure to watch this one till the end, the best part starts around the middle of the video. Sound waves are transmitted through a flammable gas creating alternating high and […]
The CERN Announcement, In Brief [Science!]
Today, a much-awaited live press conference from CERN announced a glimpse of the elusive Higgs boson. The two teams working on isolating the so-called God Particle have isolated the mass region to a narrow location about 15 GeV wide, somewhere between 116-130 GeV in the ATLAS sector’s experiments and between 115 and 127 GeV in […]
Eyes on the Sky Tonight: 2011 Geminid Meteor Shower
It’s that time again, Geeks. Bundle up and head outdoors tonight between 10PM local time and sunrise Wednesday morning to catch the incoming Geminid meteors. The map above should give you a good idea of where to look; if you’re feeling especially Citizen Sciencey, check out the just-released, free Meteor Counter app for iPad and iPhone. […]