Researchers have found a solution inspired by loofah sponges that could purify enough water to meet a person’s daily needs, even on cloudy days.
This loofah-inspired, sun-driven gel could purify all the water you’ll need in a single day.
Category: Physics
Solar power scientists are now using molten salt to store the sun’s energy. Here’s the science of how it works.
The Dunhuang molten salt solar power plant will provide 390 million kWh of clean power each year and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 3500 tons. And it can run 24-hours a day, even when the sun does not shine. It does this by storing energy in a molten salt solution for later use.
Here’s what a flame looks like in space, where there is no gravity.
When a flame burns on earth, heated gases rise from the fire, drawing oxygen in and pushing combustion molecules out. As the flame burns, it heats the air around it and causes it to expand and rise upward. In microgravity however, hot gases do not rise.
Scientists capture picture of a single atom using a normal DSLR camera.
David Nadlinger, a quantum physicist at the University of Oxford, has done the impossible. He captured a picture of a single atom using a normal DSLR digital camera.
Listen up, people. Scientists create sound so loud, it instantly boils water and ruptures internal organs.
Bang your head! Scientists at Stanford University created a sound that measures a whopping 270 decibels. The sound was created underwater and is believed to be the limit of how loud a sound can be.
Amazing gravitational waves discovery – what they are and why they’re so important
In 1916, Albert Einstein predicted that any event that disturbs spacetime will produce ripples that spread throughout the entire Universe. He called these ripples gravitational waves. This week, one hundred years after Einstein’s prediction, scientists revealed they had finally detected gravitational waves. The discovery being called the greatest scientific advance this century. Here’s how they…
Get the thought that all tiny particles in our universe are shaped like little round balls out of your head!
Scientists have worked for a very long time trying to figure out a theory called quantum field theory. Quantum field theory is a body of laws that describe how the tiny little particles all around us interact. Whatever the particle, we tend to think of these objects as little dots, spheres, or tiny circles. Even…
Large Hadron Collider may rewrite physics if contact with parallel universe is successful
The staggering complex Large Hadron Collider (aka Atom smasher) in Geneva is already running at its highest level. Thus far, it has discovered the God particle (aka Higgs boson particle) but this week, it could transform our understanding of the universe as well as open up a portal to something, or somewhere, beyond human comprehension.…
Scientists capture first ever photo of light behaving as both a particle and a wave – and it’s a beauty.
Scientists have long believed that light can behave as both a particle and a wave but until today – it’s been a bit difficult to visualize and impossible to photograph. Now, researchers in Switzerland have taken the first ever picture of light as both a wave and a particle – and it’s a beauty!
Watch what happens when astronauts on the moon drop a hammer and feather at the same time
For a long time, Geek Slop has been trying to convince his readers that despite mind-boggling implications, Galileo was correct – all objects fall at the same rate regardless of how heavy they are. In other words, mass does not affect gravitational pull. Theoretically, in a vacuum, if you dropped a school bus (with the…
