U.S. researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Princeton University unveiled the secret of how cats lap water and milk with elegance, a phenomenon that happens so fast it cannot be observed by human eyes. Cats are among the many species that, unlike humans, cannot close their mouths and create suction. With help […]
Archives for November 2010
Scientists Create Mini Big Bang
Scientists say they have created a mini Big Bang using the world’s largest atom smasher, resulting in a temperature a million times hotter than the sun’s center. In an underground tunnel near Geneva, Switzerland, the European Organization for Nuclear Research smashed particles inside the $10 billion accelerator known as the Large Hadron Collider in an […]
November 6, 2010, Stuart Robbins, Exposing Pseudoastronomy and Doomsday 2012
Show Archives/Podcast Nov 6, 2010 Hour 1 – Hour 2 – Hour 3 – Hour 4 Our guest for November 6, 2010, for all four hours is Stuart Robbins, a sixth-year graduate student in Astrophysics at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Stuart is interested and active in the education and public outreach (EPO) part of astronomy […]