Analogy Watch: Muon Collisions And The Machine That Will See ThemThe most recent issue of symmetry magazine has a feature titled, "When Muons Collide," by Leah...
BUMP: Bad Use For A Mobile PhoneThe La Jolla, California-based company BUMP launched earlier this week with an eponymous web service...
Analogy Watch: Gravitational LensingMy last post about hydrogen bonding included a video about dogs as an analogy to the chemistry...
A video posted on A Blog Around the Clock a few days ago discusses the mechanisms behind hydrogen...


No, this isn’t a close-up of the surface of a golf ball. It’s a new
type of material, one that is porous and elastic, lighter than solid
aluminum yet stronger than steel, one that its creators are calling an “ultra high-strength metal matrix composite foam.”
A bit of a misnomer, really, considering the foam is made up entirely of stainless steel. 
