NASA Mars Rover gets smarter as it ages
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is already in its 7th year on Mars, and over the years it provided some ...
Tag: Physics
The periodic table welcomes its new member: Copernicium
Copernicium is now officialy the newest and heaviest element in the periodic table, with an atomic number of 112 (which ...
Science ABC: the eddy currents, and the coolest video you’ll see today
Eddy currents are electrical phenomena that take place when a conductor is exposed to an oscilation of the magnetic field ...
Could life exist in a different Universe than ours ?
Whether intelligent life exists in our universe is a long debated problem. But for some scientists, there's something even more ...
NASA launches observatory to study sun
It's NASA's second launch in just 4 days (after Endeavour), and this time it's about the most advanced solar observatory ...
Pluto is changing colors
Pluto is so upset that it's no longer a planet, that it's turning all red with anger ! No, seriously. ...
The most absurd explanation you’ll hear today
Well, the talk is on homeopathy, but this is really not about homeopathy. It's about the "physics" explanation, and how ...
Neil deGrasse talks about e=mc^2
Neil deGrasse is definitely one of my heroes, and the simplicity through which he manages to explain even the most ...
Amazing video of a drop of water in super slow motion portrays surface tension
Well, these guys explain it way better than I could, so watch the video, even if you are familiarized with ...
The symphony of science
I was quite stunned to stumble across this video. As the name says, it's a... well it's not quite a ...
Scientists create the first molecular transistor
Researchers from Yale University succeeded in what seemed to be an impossible task: they've created a transistor from a single ...
Water and fog found on Titan, Saturn’s moon
As I was writing in a previous post, Titan is quite unique, in that aside from our planet it's the ...
LHC produces first results
Since the Large Hadron Collider went back in business, all sort of rumors have been circling the scientific circles (and ...
Dark matter discovered, or at least rumor has it
Well, rumors and science never go well together, especially when it goes to something as important as the work going ...
Meet the world’s most powerful X-Ray laser
The first experiments with this laser (Linac Coherent Light Source) have been given the green light at the Department of ...
Hubble shows 2 galaxies that are just losing it
Ram pressure is the pressure exerted on a body when it passes through a fluid medium; this causes a drag ...
The rebirth of Hubble – Hubble’s first pics since Servicing Mission 4
Hubble has had a lot of problems in recent days, but now the telescope we love the most is up ...
Secret of spider-man suit revealed
If you ever wanted to stroll "spidy" your way around the big city, your dream is one step closer to ...