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Friday, November 14, 2008
How To Have A Water Balloon Fight ... In Space
November 14, 2008 Mechanical engineers Seth Lichter and Mark Weislogel wondered what would happen if they popped water balloons aboard NASA's low-gravity aircraft. Aside from the "fun factor," as Weislogel puts it, the results demonstrate some basic principles of physics.
Friday, November 07, 2008
Physics Professor Revamps The Electoral Map
November 7, 2008 Mark Newman, professor of physics at the University of Michigan, has a new spin on an old map. He created a program to make cartograms — maps in which states are drawn with their size proportional to their population, rather than their acreage.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Video 'Pick Of The Week': Dead Hearts
October 31, 2008 A heart pathologist shows how long-dead hearts look and feel, and what that tells us about their former owners.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Pick Of The Week: Voting Software On Video
October 24, 2008 The key to an electronic voting machine is its software. Computer scientist Ka-Ping Yee describes in a Science Friday video how he created the prototype voting machine software he calls Pvote. He aimed to streamline the code using an open source programming language called Python.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Video Pick Of The Week: Giant Pumpkins
October 10, 2008 Atlantic Giant pumpkins, when properly cared for, can grow as large as 1,600 pounds. But big pumpkins don't just grow on their own.
Friday, October 03, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
