Have a Minute? Smash 88 Alarm Clocks With Your Feet or Clean Out Your Inbox
One minute isn’t very long, but some pretty amazing things have been achieved over the span of sixty seconds—the time it takes for Hotmail to conquer your messy inbox. For instance, an illusionist in China once performed 5 teleportation illusions before his minute was up, a London man set a world record by smashing 88…
This solar “tornado” is five times larger than Earth
The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a spectacular rotation of material in a solar prominence, which created a massive tornado-like feature on the Sun, five times bigger than the Earth. “This is perhaps the first time that such a huge solar tornado is filmed by an imager,” said Dr. Xing Li of Aberystwyth University, presenting his…
How Bell Lab’s Radar Dismantled the Axis Powers
In 1937, the notion of beaming radio waves off distant objects was barely more than speculation, yet in just six years the genius minds of AT&T’s Bell Labs honed the technology into a potent weapon for the Allies. The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner discusses the fascinating history of the storied think tank. The Scientific…