Eight Ways to Use Your Phone as a Scientific Instrument
Your smartphone wears a number of hats: camera, MP3 player, and it can even make and receive calls — but with the right set of apps, you can do much more with your handset.
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Your smartphone wears a number of hats: camera, MP3 player, and it can even make and receive calls — but with the right set of apps, you can do much more with your handset.
It’s an exciting proof-of-concept that heralds the potential for “cyborg intelligence.”
Who wouldn't want all their wires replaced with beams of light?
Scientists give missing fingers the finger.
And they are flushing precious money down the drain in the process.
Molten salt is, as it’s name suggests, salt in liquid form. It doesn’t get there until between 260 and 600 degrees Celsius, making it one of the worst things you can drop into a glass vessel full of cold water. But that is exactly what The Backyard Scientist has done. See more >>
Transportation device or suicide box? A fascinating new investigation looks at the philosophical ramifications of destroying all your atoms to get about.
Loss of sleep affects us more than we know.
If you want to fly under the radar, you could do with a sheet of this material.
That should teach us more about the disaster that occurred 66 million years ago.
This is a crazy month for science fiction and fantasy books. These are all the most unmissable titles you need to check in March!
Every year, the Wellcome Trust rounds up the best biomedical images of the last twelve months as part of its Image Awards. This year, the pictures are a reminder of just how beautiful biology can be. See more >>
Proton pack construction and equations on whiteboards approved by real-life scientists.
Though it's not entirely clear why. Not that scientists don't have a few ideas.
Photographer Alfred Lee has captured a stunning image of an unusual cloud above Hong Kong—one that bears a striking resemblance to the spaceships in War of the Worlds. Read More >>
It might look like the surface of the Sun, but this is actually the complex simulated fluid dynamics of streamlines in turbulent liquid mercury. Read More >>
