NASA’s Space Launch System buffet model in NASA’s Langley Researcher Center’s Transonic Dynamics Tunnel. Image credit: NASA/LaRC This week, researchers tested a ten-foot-long model of the new Space Launch System, NASA’s next big thing for launching humans beyond Earth orbit. The test was conducted at the Langley Research Center’s Transonic Dynamics Tunnel (TDT). “This is [...]
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: skip to main skip to sidebar Tuesday , November 20, 2012 The Science Behind Turkey Time Wild Turkey Image Credit : Andrea Westmoreland via Flickr There are 60-foot high balloons floating above packed city blocks cranberries on the stove , inside-the-turkey stuffing , mashed potatoes , outside-the-turkey stuffing , football , abominably huge , turkeys and one lucky bird The best part of Thanksgiving dinner Leftover Thanksgiving . dinner But those leftovers take hard work-- that hot , perfect , leftover Thanksgiving dinner Friday lunch sandwich that takes precision , dedication , and extra . cranberries In this Thanksgiving-special post , we present this great video from the American Chemical Society that sheds light on the science behind pop-up turkey timers , mashed potatoes , and those
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: : skip to main skip to sidebar Wednesday , November 14, 2012 Podcast : The Accidental Doomsday Machine The PHENIX detector , under construction , at . RHIC Photo : Brookhaven National Laboratory This week on the podcast I'm very happy to welcome Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek who shares a story about a time he suffered for science . Specifically , Wilczek spent two and a half days on the side of a remote New Hampshire highway , using a pay phone to call reporters all over the world and explain to them why the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider RHIC was not going to create a black hole and swallow the . world For anyone who remembers the LHC doomsday threat of 2008 2009, Wilczek's story will resonate loudly . Walter Wagner , the man behind the patently false claims that the LHC
I love it when kids get excited enough about science to go out and do something about it. That’s why I’m digging Jeffrey Tang – who’s 10 – because he created the Astronomy For Kids podcast, where he talks about different astronomical things. The first podcast went up in February 2012 ("The Solar System") and [...]
Some Puzzling Stellar Plastic Surgery
Want to see some of the oldest stars in the cosmos? Follow European Southern Observatory’s gaze out to the globular star cluster NGC 6362. It belongs to the Milky Way, and contains tens of thousands of very ancient stars. This cluster has many stars that have aged to become red giants. [...]
And ironically, it’s XKCD What-if that is wrong. Well, not wrong by commission, but wrong by omission. First off, I’m a huge fan of both XKCD (well the 98% of their comic strips that are SFJ) and XKCD-What If. If I was 1/20th as funny as Randall Munroe, I’d probably be writing witty webcomics instead [...]