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You’ve got to see this to believe it. And even then, you might not believe it.
I was dubious until another member of a forum where this video appeared wrote,
My neighbor works for Santee Electric in the transmission line area and he does this. He is [...]
Were you looking forward to another boring day on this run-of-the-mill planet Earth?
Researchers from Indiana University Bloomington and eight collaborating institutions report in this week’s Science a self-sustaining community of bacteria that live in rocks 2.8 kilometers below Earth’s surface. Think that’s weird? The bacteria rely on radioactive uranium to convert water molecules to [...]
What happens when lightening strikes an airplane?
According to Edward J Rupke, senior engineer at Lighting Technologies, Inc., not much. (Image courtesy of Edward J. Rupke and borrowed from Scientific American.com.)
Although passengers and crew may see a flash and hear a loud noise if lightning strikes [...]
I’m a space junkie so I was thrilled to read in Slashdot
Jivecat writes: “All those extra cameras NASA has added to the Space Shuttle to watch for debris impacts have yielded what may be the coolest Shuttle launch footage ever. The forward-facing view from the right-hand SRB shows, [...]
Nature.com reports, in Geometric whirlpools revealed – Recipe for making symmetrical holes in water is easy, that it is surprisingly easy to make “holes” in a bucket of water that have all kinds of interesting shapes.
The researchers found that once the plate was spinning so fast that the water span out to [...]
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Exciting, Breaking News, from the Weizmann Institute. Scientists have finally figured out how a material cracks:
Physicists attempting to find a formula for the dynamics of cracking, to allow them to predict how a crack will advance in a given material, have faced a serious obstacle. The difficulty lies in pinning down, objectively, the [...]
ScienceDaily reports in Deciphering The Mystery Of Bee Flight that scientists have finally figured out how bees fly.
Their wings beat over a short arc of about 90 degrees, but ridiculously fast, at around 230 beats per second. Fruit flies, in comparison, are 80 times smaller than honeybees, but flap their wings only 200 [...]
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
When the Romans invaded ancient Judea, thick forests of date palms towering up to 80 feet high and 7 miles wide covered the Jordan River valley from the Sea of Galilee in the north to the shores of the Dead Sea in the south. The tree so defined [...]
New Scientist ran an article on Monday titled, Mission to build a simulated brain begins. It opens with,
An effort to create the first computer simulation of the entire human brain, right down to the molecular level, was launched on Monday.
The “Blue Brain†project, a collaboration between IBM and a Swiss university team, [...]
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