(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine sitting around a conference table with several of your colleagues as you hold an important meeting. Now imagine your boss pulling out what looks like a radar gun for catching speeding motorists and aiming at any of you that speak to long, very nearly instantly causing whoever is speaking to start stuttering then mumbling and then to stop speaking at all
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The innermost secrets of champagne bubbles are about to be unveiled in the Springer journal European Physical Journal ST. This fascinating work is the brainchild of G
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LONDON--It could be the last word in concrete solutions to carbon emissions: a paving slab that generates electricity with every footstep taken on it, providing clean power to both cities and remote areas not connected to a national grid. Best of all, it requires mainly used tires and concrete
Read More »I Heart Jellyfish: The iPhone Game That Rewards You For A Healthy Heartbeat
This game will actually make you want to regulate your heartbeat. Score one for gamification
Read More »"I’m A Climate Scientist," The Raunchy Climate Change Video
Sick of hearing that climate change doesn't exist from people who haven't studied the matter, climate scientists get together to fix the problem the only way they know how: hip-hop. There is nothing more amusing than incongruous people rapping (Andy Samberg has built a career on this notion), and there is perhaps no more incongruous rappers than Australian academics
Read More »Rome2Rio, a Vehicle-Agnostic Travel Site, Launches
Planes, trains, automobiles--and ferries.
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