Category: Physics & Chemistry
Cornstarch + Water + Subwoofer = Amazing Physics Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px9jcA4decAIt’s Friday, you’ve been swimming in a sea of iPhone news… so what’s better to distract you than...
Are Wormholes a Scientific Dead End?
Wormholes have long been a staple of popular culture and science, but excitement over these theoretical "time machines"...
A Quantum Bubble Could End Reality as We Know It. Here’s Why It (Probably) Won’t
The strange rules of quantum mechanics could spell the end of our universe. But they might also spare...
Nvidia Helping Modders Port PhysX Engine to ATI Radeon
Remember those modders from NGOHQ who were swolling out ATI’s Radeon graphics cards with Nvidia’s PhysX physics engine?...
Science Team Explains Why Mentos + Coke = Whoosh!
You should, by now, be very familiar with the Mentos and Coke explosion effect. After all, we’ve even...
Why Pickles Light Up When You Electrocute Them
This common science demonstration has been an enduring mystery. Now, this electrical engineer has started to figure it...
Final Countdown for Large Hadron Collider Activation, Prepare Your Escape Pods
Worried about the Large Hadron Collider destroying the Solar System in a big ball of fire and Z...
Scientists Dated the Catastrophic Pompeii Eruption Using Only Rocks. Here’s How Close They Got
According to Pliny the Younger, Mount Vesuvius erupted on August 24th, 79 CE. That date is now helping...
Spammer Keeps Whining About Large Hadron Collider Assploding
Dear Moron Physicist Who Can’t Write Proper English,https://gizmodo.com/cern-to-morons-large-hadron-collider-wont-destroy-eart-374066I hope you are right about CERN’s Large Hadron Collider exploding...
CERN to Morons: Large Hadron Collider Won’t Destroy Earth. Morons.
Contrary to the somewhat feverish claims laid out in an recent lawsuit, when our favorite particle-smashing, Force-finding Large...
