Watch What Happens to This Drop of Water When It Hits Hot Oil
Oil and water truly don’t mix, and this is especially true if you try to throw water on an oil fire to quench the flames. Instead, it just goes BOOM!
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Oil and water truly don’t mix, and this is especially true if you try to throw water on an oil fire to quench the flames. Instead, it just goes BOOM!
Whenever a particle passes through a detector pad on the instrument, the result is a musical note and a flash of light.
This is what your brain looks like after it's been run through Google's Deep Dream neural network. Read More >>
Latin for “dark room,” conceptually, a camera obscura is the precursor to the pinhole camera, but the effect dates back at least to Aristotle.
Mobile phones, Wi-Fi, personal computers, smart meters, radio, television and even the TV remote control – they all emit electromagnetic energy. So what's that doing to our bodies?
The Chinese government took extreme measures to guarantee clear skies for the its display, but it took less than 24 hours for air pollution to ramp up again afterwards.
Move over Tony Stark.
Astrophysicists at Caltech say they’ve detected the oldest, most distant galaxy known so far. It’s 13.2 billion years old — just over half a billion years younger than the universe itself. Read More >>
There’s no better way to appreciate the sheer scale of this summer's algae blooms than by taking a look at the Baltic Sea, where swirling ocean currents are causing viridescent sea storms. Read More >>
A crab! A spoon! A crashed UFO! Clearly, the Curiosity Rover is busy excavating the remains of an alien luau, and NASA totally didn’t tell us. The proof is right there! Except not exactly.
At least three news studies this summer focus on the mental and physical benefits of having access to trees and nature.
For every additional 30 min each day men spend in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, their odds of developing erectile dysfunction dropped 43 per cent.
Beneath the swelling blue surf, ocean life is on the move. Marine species are swimming into new new communities and forcing others out.
Breaking the world into discrete chunks helps us make rapid decisions about how to behave, but can also make us uneasy when we’re faced with things that don’t easily fit into one of our mental boxes.
Today’s APOD feature has just left me speechless. What is this astronomical beauty, this celestial rose, this heavenly gate I am staring at in this photo? It's like a gateway to the stars. Read More >>
70,000 people can start off enough frenzied dancing feet to generate a small earthquake measuring about 0.5 on the Richter scale.
