At Home with Commander Scott Kelly
A tour of the International Space Station with Commander Scott Kelly. He walks you through the his living quarters on the Space Station.
Category: Science
Forget About Melting Steel with Sunshine… How About Rocks?
The power of the sun is amazing, but with that amount of solar energy being focused into that small of an area, I’m not suprised at what it can do. According to the video, it can reach temperatures around 2,500 Degrees F / 1,370 Degrees C.
What’s up with the Sea Level? Why aren’t we underwater yet?
What truth is behind the idea that our coastal cities are going to drown? Â Yes, there has been a noticeable increase in the average sea level… Â But that increase is huge, roughly an increase of 2.77 millimeters per year. So how long would it take to duplicate the history channel Armageddon week image? Well, let’s […]
Becoming Han Solo
An iPad assists a handicapped child communicate….
Here’s your popcorn!
My Daughter is just really obsessed with watching our popcorn popper work… So I’ll have to show her this… Â High speed footage of popcorn popping…
Solar cells get two electrons for the price of one, efficiency bonus
It may still be a lab experiment, but still, this could led to eventual mainstream adoption of solar power… Photoelectric current as function of photon energy was measured on single crystal TiO2 coated with a monolayer of PbS nanoparticles. The experiments conclusively showed that multiple electrons were generated and extracted from the nanoparticles for each […]
Gummy Bears, the Next Rocket Fuel?
Probably not, but St. Albans Science Department shows what happens when a gummy bear is dropped in a test tube of potassium chlorate. (Hint, Molten Potassium Chorlate is a strong oxidizing agent that reacts violently with Sugar. What do you think Gummy bears contain alot of?)
A photo tour of the Large Hadron Collider
Ars Technica is happy to walk all of us through a photo tour of the Large Hadron Collider.