Posts tagged with ‘physics’

IBM creates a stop motion animation using individual atoms

Today, a team of IBM scientists are bypassing the big screen to unveil what they call the “world’s smallest movie.” This atomic motion picture was created with the help of a two-ton IBM-made microscope that operates at a bone-chilling negative 268 degrees Celsius. This hardware was used to control a probe that pulled and arranged atoms for stop-motion shots used in the 242-frame film.

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield shows what it looks like when you wring out a washcloth in space

Proving again that everything in space is a zillion times cooler.

The true science of parallel universes

Parallel universes is a great concept, often used in science fiction, but is there any real science behind this idea?

10 things you didn’t know about antimatter

It costs billions of dollars to produce just a few atoms of the stuff, but here are 10 other things you might not know about antimatter.

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Watch the trailer for ‘Hawking’, a biopic about Stephen Hawking, written partially by Stephen Hawking

Hawking is the extraordinary story of the planet’s most famous living scientist, told for the first time in his own words and by those closest to him. Made with unique access to Hawking’s private life, this is an intimate and moving journey into Stephen’s world, both past and present. An inspirational portrait of an iconic figure, Hawking relates his incredible personal journey from boyhood underachiever, to Ph.D. genius, to being diagnosed with ALS (or Lou Gehrig’s disease) and given just two years to live. Despite the constant threat of death, Hawking makes amazing scientific discoveries and rises to fame and superstardom.

All about latent heat and why phase changes from one state of matter to another causes a change in temperature

Latent heat is why salted ice is so good for chilling beer, and why your sweat keeps you cool, but there’s a whole lot more to it than just that. Just watch and learn.

Bending water into all kinds of wacky shapes using soundwaves

A stream of water appears to form a corkscrew shape and even move backwards in this video by science & illusion enthusiast Brusspup. The effect is achieved by playing a 24hz sine wave sound on a speaker, running water past the speaker, and filming the water at 24 frames per second (the effect is not visible to the naked eye). The water appears to move slowly forwards or backwards by raising or lowering the sound frequency.

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