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IHC After Dark science: Michio Kaku “The World in 2030”
Physicist Michio Kaku visits the City University of New York to talk about what the science and technology will look like in the year 2030. Also, check out his book ‘Physics of the Future’, in which he lays out what our world will look like by 2100.
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posted 04 March, 2013
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Physicist Jim Al-Khalili looks at how the European Robin, may be relying upon the strange rules of quantum entanglement to find its way south each year.
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posted 02 March, 2013
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Minute Physics explains the entire universe in three minutes
Everything. Almost.
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posted 18 February, 2013
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Wired explains how Han Solo could be a time traveler based on his time through the Kessel Run
In the Star Wars universe, Han Solo is famous for being able to fly the Kessel Run, a dangerous smuggler’s route through space, in less than 12 parsecs. In an ongoing effort to let you out-geek your friends, Wired explains how this insane feat may mean that Han Solo may have traveled through time.
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posted 16 February, 2013
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Colour Mixing: The Mystery of Magenta
Why doesn’t magenta appear in the rainbow? The answer lies not in physics but in biology.
Science presenter Steve Mould demonstrates the strange phenomenon of colour mixing, in which not everything is as it seems. The cone cells within our eyes are responsible for the colours we see, but are only sensitive to Red, Green and Blue light. So how are we able to see so many colours when we can only directly detect three and how do our brains see the colour magenta which doesn’t have a wavelength?
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posted 13 February, 2013
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What would it look like if you flew a Cessna over the surfaces of other planets or moons in the Solar System?
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posted 11 February, 2013
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If the Nordtvedt effect is right, two objects of different masses don’t really fall at the same rate
Famously tested by Galileo and tested again and again and again thousands and thousands of times over the ages, it’s come to be that two objects of different masses falling towards the same body (Earth for example), will fall at the same rate. It’s even been tested on the Moon, and it works perfectly. But professor Kenneth Nordtvedt of the University of Montana thinks this solidly tested notion may be incorrect.
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posted 04 February, 2013
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The Double Slit experiment - the central mystery of quantum mechanics, explained by Jim Al-Khalili.
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posted 01 February, 2013
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Wires smaller than a wave of light make solar cells super efficient
While current solar panels get the job done, they’re not nearly as efficient as they could be. What would make them incredibly efficient would be microscopic nano-scale wires, smaller than a wave of light, to trap photons in their tiny little tentacles to convert the sunlight energy into useable energy for something else.
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posted 23 January, 2013
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Earth was hit by a massive gamma ray burst in the year 775
Way back in the year 775, it looks likely that the Earth was slammed with a massive burst of gamma rays, briefly soaking the planet in quite a bit of radiation. This radiation spike was measured by studying tree rings in Japan and rocks in Antarctica, pinpointing it to 775, the year when Baghdad was the world’s biggest city.
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posted 22 January, 2013
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Intel has new technology to let Stephen Hawking continue to communicate
As Stephen Hawking’s Lou Gehrig’s disease slowly continues to erode his physical body, he becomes less able to communicate by the day. He currently uses a device that measures the twitch of a single muscle in his cheek, the last muscle he has any control over. But even that is fading, with his ability to speak now under one word per minute. Fortunately, Intel has developed new technology to continue to let Hawking communicate.
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posted 21 January, 2013
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Traveling at hyperspeed wouldn’t look nearly as cool as Hollywood thinks it does
Whether it’s Star Trek or Star Wars, whenever directors want to depict someone going at warp speed, you see them blazing through trails of stars, when in reality it turns out that going that fast wouldn’t look nearly that cool. See that formless blob of light above? That’s pretty much what you would see.
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posted 16 January, 2013
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Watch a UFC fighter roundhouse kick eggs in slow motion
In this series from The NOC, UFC fighter Anthony “Showtime” Pettis demonstrates his dynamic MMA moves in super slow motion by kicking, punching, and splattering food!
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posted 13 January, 2013
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Free Movie Friday: ‘Decay’, the first and only full length zombie movie shot at the Large Hadron Collider
It’s not the best movie you’ll see today, since all the actors are physics students, but it’s a good effort. And it’s got zombies hanging around the LHC.
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posted 11 January, 2013
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Radiation from space travel may cause brain damage. So there’s that.
In open space, outside the barriers of atmospheres, there’s a shit ton of radiation beaming about all over the place. Spaceships shield themselves from the radiation to keep astronauts safe, but there’s a bigger danger than gamma rays— radioactive iron ions that are too heavy to be blocked by normal radiation shields, that could lead to brain damage in astronauts.
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posted 05 January, 2013
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