Thursday, February 25, 2010

Were the Olympics Green?

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-02/carbon-offsets-and-recycling-bins-green-olympics-do-not-make

Weight Lifting Ants

INCLUDES YouTube CLIP!!

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-02/load-bearing-ant-carries-100-times-its-body-weight-well-photo-competition

(image courtesy of University of Cambridge)

Try this at home...

http://foodscience.psu.edu/public/kitchen-chemistry/classroom

Food Science YouTube Clip

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HLBjQb1rUw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72eHuIakdLc

(image courtesy of www.accessexcellence.org)

Compounds Created to Fight Viruses

BY: BEN KOTZUBEI

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/02/01/compound.found.targets.wide.range.viruses

Black Hole Simulator Video Clip

BY: DECLAN SAVIANO

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/11/black-hole-simulator-uses_n_458094.html





(image courtesy of http://www.spacetoday.org)

LEGO Robot Solves Any Rubiks Cube in Less Than 12 seconds

INCLUDES VIDEO CLIPS!!!

BY: KENT YAMAMOTO

http://singularityhub.com/2010/02/17/lego-robot-solves-any-rubiks-cube-in-less-than-12-seconds-video/

Diamond Oceans

BY: HOWARD DESHONG


http://news.discovery.com/space/diamond-oceans-jupiter-uranus.html

(Getty Images)

Bad Astronomy-Supernova

BY: HOWARD DESHONG

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/01/07/no-a-nearby-supernova-wont-wipe-us-out/