Applied Physics

Could A Fire Have Caused The Loss Of MH370?

Could A Fire Have Caused The Loss Of MH370? Ever since Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappeared there has been much speculation in the media and across the web about what may have happened.  Unfortunately, the somewhat spasmodic release of official information ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 6 2014 - 11:08pm

Underwater Acoustics- Searching For The MH370 Flight Recorder

Underwater Acoustics- Searching For The MH370 Flight Recorder Australian and Chinese vessels have both picked up acoustic "pings" that could be from the black box of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, search officials have announced. Guardi ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 6 2014 - 2:25pm

Science Play and Research Kit Winners

The Science Play and Research Kit (SPARK) competition winners were announced today. The SPARK competition was a challenge to “reimagine the chemistry set for the 21st Century,” according to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Society for Science& ...

Blog Post - Steve Schuler - Apr 8 2014 - 9:41am

BLOODHOUND And The Aerodynamics Of A 1,000 MPH Car

In Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" and in 1940s engineering, there was a demon in the air at 750 miles per hour, a line some said could not be crossed. It was called the Sound Barrier for that reason. If that demon could cause a plane to brea ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 11 2014 - 10:17am

Hemihelix: Engineers Discover Perversion Of Nature Using Rubber Bands

While creating new springs to support a cephalopod-inspired imaging project, a group of Harvard researchers stumbled upon a surprising discovery: the hemihelix, a shape rarely seen in nature. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2014 - 9:36am

It's A Bubble, Jim, But Not As We Know It

SensaBubble is a chrono-sensory mid-air display system that generates scented bubbles to deliver information to people using different senses. The bubble-based technology creates bubbles with a specified size and frequency, fills them with an opaque fog t ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2014 - 9:17pm

Snap Circuits Science: Phototransistor Audible IR Detector

In a previous article I wanted to know if I could use the recording medium from old floppy disk as an infrared (IR) filter to shoot infrared photography on an iPod. I built a simple IR detector using Snap Circuits to test how well the floppy disk would abs ...

Article - Steve Schuler - Apr 29 2014 - 8:13pm

A 90 Year Experiment: The Pitch Drops That Got The World Talking

In light of recent results from the "world's longest experiment", spanning more than 90 years, at the University of Queensland, a group of researchers from Trinity College Dublin explain the background behind their own pitch-drop experiment ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2014 - 9:20pm

LTP1: The Secret To Perfect Beer Foam

What makes the perfect beer foam? Is it nucleation in the glass? Beer is well-traveled ground on Science 2.0 and that means beer foam has been covered as well. The biggest advice. Be careful with the detergent you use to wash your glass. An already lipid- ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2015 - 5:36pm

Cone Of Silence: Creating A Perfect Acoustic Absorber

Researchers of the Universitat Politècnica de València at the Campus de Gandia have designed and experimentally evaluated a new structure that permit the complete absorption of sound at a wide range of frequencies. The best part is that they used conventio ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2014 - 8:54am