Last year’s Nobel Prize in Physics went to two British scientists for their work experimenting with graphene. This month has seen two separate announcements about how the material could be in electronic devices. Graphene is simply a single layer of carbon atoms: as the Nobel citation explained, it’s literally a two-dimensional material. Manchester University professors […]
As far as baby names go, P4 is both unimaginative and lacking character. Nevertheless, that’s what NASA’s calling the tiny little rock recently discovered orbiting Pluto, at least until the International Astronomical Union (IAU) settles on something with a bit more personality. At just 8 to 21 miles across, P4 is smaller than a city […]
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Back in 1977, geek heroes Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan headed up the team that created the golden record — gold-plated copper disc that serves as a sort of time capsule for Earth, in the event that some alien species finds and explores the Voyager probe as it wanders out past Pluto’s orbit and into […]
The official title of this video is “Limitations imposed by wearing armour on Medieval soldiers’ locomotor performance,” but to tell you frankly, I don’t really care about the scientific value of this experiment. The only reason I’m posting this is because this is probably the first and last time you’ll ever see a guy wearing […]
Research at University College London suggests humans mimicking others is a largely involuntary response. The findings come from an experiment involving “rock paper scissors”. The experiment involved participants taking part in a series of games. The reason for using rock paper scissors was to put any tendency to mimic others to the test: while the […]
One of the biggest hurdles to learning scientific concepts is (and has always been) getting a handle on the jargon. That’s where Science Made Simple comes in. This video focuses of quantum physics, genetic modification and superconductors. According to Jacob Slack, the series’ director, there are “15 animated interstitials produced for TVNZ 7, aimed at […]
Simon Bent knows science is awesome. The Melbourne based graphic designer also knows that there’s not nearly enough popularity for some of history’s greatest minds in pop culture, so he put together this series of 60s-era, trip-tastic portraits of a handful of scientists and inventors from history. SCIENCE VS DELERIUM IS A SERIES OF ILLUSTRATIONS […]
In this visually dazzling talk, Jonathan Drori shows the extraordinary ways flowering plants — over a quarter million species — have evolved to attract insects to spread their pollen: growing ‘landing-strips’ to guide the insects in, shining in ultraviolet, building elaborate traps, and even mimicking other insects in heat. [TED]
Event cloaks are the sort of thing movies and far-future, ten-tome science fiction tales are made of. That is unless you’re Moti Fridman or part of his group of sharp-minded companions at Cornell, in which case you have designed and built a cloak that hides events in time. The concept of event cloaking works like this: […]