Posts from the category Science

Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson. The particle has been the subject of a 45-year hunt to explain how matter attains its mass. Both of the Higgs boson-hunting experiments at the LHC see a level of certainty in their…

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Tel-Aviv University demos quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field. Video courtesy of Association of Science – Technology Centers (ASTC), representing the science centre and museum field worldwide. The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. .. [the material] has entered a new state … superconductivity. —…

YouTube is streaming Live the video of the Total Lunar Eclipse June 15, 2011 (11 AM a 3 PM PDT.). You can see it now, no matter where you live, just push play in the above video. The voices are from NASA Astronomers. Link

Here’s the famous footage of the Apollo 15 astronaut, David Scott, that dropped a hammer and feather on the Moon to prove Galileo’s theory that says: In the absence of atmosphere, objects will fall at the same rate regardless of mass. There has been much debate over the years on whether this footage is real,…

This coffee cup has an insulating sleeve. Amron Experimental created a disposable coffee cup that has a heat-activated insulating sleeve. Dubbed the Heatswell, when one pours hot liquid into the cup, the blue band wrapped around the cup–which, before activation, is thin enough to be stackable with other Heatswell cups–will swell and provide protection from…

An American radio program claims it has uncovered the exact recipe for Coca-Cola in the pages of a 1979 newspaper. Its code name was: Merchandise 7X. The soft drink was created in 1886 by pharmacist John Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia, and the recipe has always been kept under wraps. Legend has it that the exact…

They just draw lines crossing each-other, and count the points of the intersections.

Two Japanese girls of 13 years old sing The Elements, a Japanese remix of Tom Lehrer’s song: The Elements wich is also a remix of the original song: I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General. This videoclip is hidden in every copy of the iPad app: The Elements in Japanese.

The great scientist, Stephen Hawking (68 years old), recently said in a new Discovery Channel Documentary, titled Universe: We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdmNd8LsYPY History Channel presented the program where expert digital artists have created a digital 3D version of Jesus body and face from the Shroud Of Turin, Italy. The render looks very real. Since the Shroud Of Turin is still under judgment for its authenticity, I believe that this image of Jesus face looks pretty right….

This special crash test was all in the name of research to try to make helicopters safer. My respect goes to NASA engineers. __ Via Boing Boing