|
|
| Subject |
Comments |
Views |
Author |
Date Written  |
|
|
0 |
2917 |
duddy |
10 years ago |
|
Beautiful Reed Flute Cave
|
view preview
This is Reed Flute Cave, in the Guangxi region of China. This natural limestone formation is over 180 million years old and contains inscriptions written in ink, which have been dated to as far back as 792 AD in the Tang Dynasty. The cave was named after the type of reed growing outside, which can be made into musical flutes.
|
|
|
0 |
1939 |
duddy |
10 years ago |
|
Beer companies are trying to get scientists drunk
|
view preview
| After winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922, Carlsberg gave Niels Bohr a perpetual supply of beer. The brewing company had a pipeline running from the brewery to Bohr’s house, so that he could have fresh beer on tap all the time. |
|
|
|
1 |
2246 |
duddy |
10 years ago |
|
Drinking seawater to survive
|
view preview
A seagull on a glass roof looking really cute. Seagulls are able to drink seawater to survive thanks to salt glands just above their eyes. These glands eliminate excess salt from the seawater and flush it out of the birds' nostrils in liquid form, an action that's often mistaken for a sneeze.
|
|
|
2 |
1934 |
duddy |
9 years ago |
|
|
0 |
2824 |
duddy |
9 years ago |
|
NASA Rover finds conditions once suited for ancient life on Mars
|
view preview
Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon -- some of the key chemical ingredients for life -- in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater on the Red Planet last month.
|
|
|
0 |
2020 |
duddy |
9 years ago |
|
Shape-shifting metal
|
view preview
Ever seen 'memory metal' in action? Watch this paperclip - made from an incredible shape-shifting metal called Nitinol - be bent completely out of shape and then restored instantly as it touches a simple bowl of warm water.
...
|
|
|
1 |
5977 |
duddy |
9 years ago |
|
Coin shiver in dry ice!
|
view preview
An American coin shivers in ice made from carbon dioxide (temperature below -78.5 degrees Celsius).
|
|
|
1 |
8210 |
duddy |
9 years ago |
|
|
1 |
5200 |
duddy |
9 years ago |
|
|
0 |
5757 |
duddy |
9 years ago |
|
|
0 |
1282 |
duddy |
9 years ago |
|
When chemistry and physics come together
|
view preview
When chemistry and physics come together, it looks awesome. This is the emission spectra of the Elements - in other words, these are the colors they emit in the gaseous state.
|
|
|
0 |
4094 |
duddy |
9 years ago |
|
Golden rain
|
view preview
Watch lead iodide turn into bright golden glitter in this awesome chemistry experiment known as the 'Golden Reaction'
|
|
|
2 |
12527 |
duddy |
9 years ago |
|
|
0 |
10984 |
duddy |
9 years ago |
|
We are the stars, we are the universe
|
view preview
I'd like to share this mind-opening video. Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, "What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?" This is his answer. By far, one of the best...
|
|
|
0 |
4508 |
ehd123 |
9 years ago |
