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Entries Tagged as 'science'

LEGO in science research

March 27th, 2012 · No Comments · clever, science, tech, video

Pluggers in the lab. Making do with what you already have.

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Storm chaser on Mars

March 26th, 2012 · No Comments · amazing, science, video

Martian orbiter captures a giant dust devil on the Martian surface allowing the boys back home to manipulate the data and render it in 3D.

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Animal misconceptions

March 21st, 2012 · No Comments · humor, science, video

Myths about daddy longlegs, bats, goldfish and more are debunked in this quick-talking video. If you can’t keep up, stay out of the kitchen.

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Steel drum crush

March 15th, 2012 · Comments Off · amazing, science, video

A 55-gallon steel drum is crushed (imploded) using a small amount of water/steam and an ice bath. Here, it happens to a rail tanker.

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Acetone and styrofoam

February 27th, 2012 · 1 Comment · odd, science, video

We all knew this but we’ve never seen it in action before.

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Tornado on the sun

February 21st, 2012 · Comments Off · amazing, science, video

For a 30 hour spell (Feb 7-8, 2012) the Solar Dynamics Observatory captured plasma caught in a magnetic dance across the Sun’s surface. The results closely resemble extreme tornadic activity on Earth.

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Signal to noise

February 2nd, 2012 · Comments Off · amazing, science, video

Time-lapse footage taken at the Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico, one of the largest Radio Astronomy Observatories in the world.

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RC bird

January 31st, 2012 · Comments Off · amazing, clever, science, video

An ornithopter modeled after DaVinci’s drawings takes to the sky.

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Controlled quantum levitation

January 5th, 2012 · Comments Off · amazing, clever, science, video

Special cars on a special Wipe’Out race track use liquid nitrogen as fuel/magic potion.

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Aurora Borealis

January 4th, 2012 · Comments Off · amazing, science, video

Video of beautiful Northern Lights shot in Finnish Lapland in the winter of 2011.

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Comet Lovejoy

December 30th, 2011 · Comments Off · amazing, news, science, video

Astrophotographer Stephané Guisard gave Comet Lovejoy the time lapse treatment, using four different sequences of photos he shot near Santiago, Chile on the morning of December 23rd, as the comet rose above the Andes. (Source)

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Pyro board

December 28th, 2011 · Comments Off · amazing, science, video

Sound waves are transmitted through a flammable gas creating alternating high and low pressure zones. This creates the flame pattern.

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