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Drop test.

Those parachutes in the picture span a diameter of 35 metres. I’m not a parachute expert but it sounds kind of massive, no?

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astronaut, capsule, parachute, space, spacex

Physicists and engineers in biotech and stem cell research.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is a smart man and makes a lot of sense here, but he never really answered the question from the beginning of the video, did he?

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astronomy, neil deGrasse tyson, physics, research, stem cell

Bizarre new friends from the ocean.

A fascinating photo gallery from Discover Blogs on some bizarre new finds from the ocean. These discoveries are merely previews from a full report that the Census of Marine Life will release in October this year.

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discovery, jellyfish, life, marine, ocean, sea, species

Monday, 28th June 2010

Oscar, the bionic cat with faux paws.

After a farming accident, this British cat has two artificial legs to help him preserve his nine lives (or however many he has left). Apparently a lot of technology went into the custom-built prosthetic legs to help get Oscar back on his feet, including painting the brown implants black to match his fur.

PS: Time to change the T-shirt, y’all!

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british, cat, prosthetic, technology

Monday, 17th May 2010

Newton’s cradle.

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animation, energy, gif, momentum, Newton, pendulum, physics, principia mathematica

Tuesday, 30th March 2010

Watch beams colliding at the Large Hadron Collider.

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particle, physics, super collider, visualization

Tuesday, 2nd February 2010

Eating a swollen ovary.

That is exactly what you eat when you eat a zucchini, my friends. While we know it as a vegetable, scientifically the zucchini is considered ‘an immature fruit, being the swollen ovary of the female zucchini flower’.

Bon appétit!

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botany, courgette, dinner, flower, fruit, vegetable, zucchini

Wednesday, 30th December 2009

Posters for the International Year of Astronomy 2009.

Two days to go before the end of 2009 and now I discover that it was the international year of astronomy. Bloody hell.

Anyway, these beautiful posters were exquisitely crafted for the fun of it by Simon Page and eventually adopted by International Astronomical Union and UNESCO for their promotional work.

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astronomy, graphic design, poster, retro, UNESCO

Sunday, 8th November 2009

Baguette to the future!

The rehabilitation of the beleaguered Large Hadron Collider was on hold tonight after the failure of one of its powerful cooling units caused by an errant chunk of baguette.

›› Yet another anti-miracle for the LHC

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future, higgs boson, physics, super collider, time, travel

Friday, 2nd October 2009

Incredible high-resolution pictures of space from the Hubble Space Telescope.

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astronomy, hubble, space, telescope

Friday, 28th August 2009

In about a billion years time, they will merge into one galaxy.

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astronomy, galaxy, hubble, light-year, space

Monday, 13th July 2009

Shell “Performance: V Power”.

Beautiful water-colour effect (and nice music) for this Shell spot (and another one) produced by Stardust. (You can see Stardust’s showreel here — seems they also did the spot for the Nokia L’Amour campaign.)