Applied Physics

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

MagnetoSperm, Magnetic Fields And The Rise Of The 'Brobots'

A team of researchers has developed sperm-inspired microrobots which can be controlled by oscillating weak magnetic fields.  The 322 micron-long robots consist solely of a head coated in a thick cobalt-nickel layer and an uncoated tail. When the robot is ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2014 - 3:02pm

How To Save Da Vinci's Self-portrait Using Physics

One of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpieces, a self-portrait, was drawn in red chalk on paper during the early 1500s. As you can imagine, a chalk drawing on paper from the Renaissance is in extremely poor condition. Centuries of exposure to humid storage ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2014 - 11:18am

Father's Day Science Project: Build A Trebuchet

The A dvanced W onder E xcitement S urprise O riginal M echatronic E xcellence lab is usually devoted to robot design but recently they took a break to go old school.  How old school? The 13th century, that's how old school. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 15 2014 - 9:23am

Dutch Students Building A Church Made Of Ice

Earlier this year, a team of students from Eindhoven went to Finland and built the world’s biggest ice dome, with a diameter of 30 meters.  Credit: Pykrete Dome team. Song: Youngblood Hawke- Stars (Hold On) This next winter, another Eindhoven team wants to ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 7 2014 - 10:21am

Supernova Explosions Recreated In The Lab

STFC’s Vulcan laser facility has recreated scaled supernova explosions to investigate one of the most energetic events in the Universe. Supernova explosions, triggered when the fuel within a star reignites or its core collapses, launch a detonation shock w ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2014 - 7:32am