Weekend Science: Will Your Beer Survive A Nuclear Blast?
The Apocalypse is coming. read...
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The Carbonator Bottle – Make Beer On The Go
Since it's the weekend and you are reading this, you are intellectually curious about science, which means there is also a statistical likelihood you enjoy beer.Because of the natural confluence of interests that cause science and beer to go hand-in-hand, we have written a lot of articles about beer. read...
read morePhysics Students Take Time To Debunk New Batman Movie Science
If you watched the new "Star Trek" reboot, you had to chuckle when two heroes were plummeting toward terra firma at terminal velocity and were beamed aboard the Enterprise in the nick of time, suffering barely a bump. And that business about hiding behind Titan...okay, maybe that could work.But that was science fiction, it gets a free pass. Superhero movies, though, had better get it...
read moreNeutron Clock – Accurate For 14 Billion Years
Time is relative, of course, but we still hate to be late for appointments. So there has always been research on making our keeping of time a little more accurate.A new clock tied to the orbiting of a neutron around an atomic nucleus could have such unprecedented accuracy that it neither gains nor loses 1/20th of a second in 14 billion years - basically, you wouldn't have needed to reset...
read moreUnobservable Universe, Unobservable Science
Science 2.0 is all about making a difference in a positive way, bringing lots of people in the world together to talk with each other about science. We're the only open science site of decent size, meaning you don't have to be famous or bring a large audience to get invited, you just sign up and write science, so participation and communication are key to the Science 2.0 concept.read...
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