A team of researchers discovered that whale sharks – the largest fish in the world, use energy conservation and geometry to stay afloat.Adrian Gleiss and Rory Wilson, from Swansea University, along with Brad Norman from ECOcean Inc., led an international team to investigate the movements of whale sharks, Rhinco... |
25 November 2010
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Every time NASA astronauts go to Earth's orbit to conduct a spacewalk – be it aboard the International Space Station (ISS) or on a telescope – they know precisely what to do. But their knowledge is not just purely theoretical. Each astronauts gets intensive training before flying to space, and this i... |
4 August 2010
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Researchers in China have once again proven their creativity, when they have announced the creation of a new class of materials, one that is so buoyant, that a regular, fit-for-human life preserver made from it could easily sustain a large horse without sinking. The find, published in the monthly journal ACS Applied ... |
12 March 2009
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Planetary scientists at UCLA have discovered a new method of analyzing exactly how convection currents drive the movements of stars, planets, and pretty much everything in between. Convection refers to the heat transfer from one designated location to another, via the movement of gas, liquids, or even slow moving sol... |
21 January 2009
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The Galileo thermometer, or thermoscope, is a device named after the Italian physicist Galileo Galilei and designed to measure temperatures with a relatively good accuracy, although today it is mostly used as a decoration item. Unlike most classical thermometers, the Galileo thermoscope relies on the buoyancy princip... |
23 July 2008
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