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Jesus Dapena studies how humans reach great heights, biomechanically. The world record for the high jump -- the event in which a person propels him- or herself ove...
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Jesus Dapena studies how humans reach great heights, biomechanically. The world record for the high jump -- the event in which a person propels him- or herself over a horizontal bar -- is just over eight feet.
[LESS INFO] 36 VIEWS | ADDED 18:00:00 05/25/12
A look back at a farmer's battle with late blight during the summer of 2009.
SciFri: Bon Appeti...
46 Views 18:00:00 05/18/12
Some New Yorkers are taking “locavore” to the next level -- eating snails from the yard, foraging mushrooms in the parks. Super foragers Anya Pozdeeva and Christop...
[LESS INFO] 46 VIEWS | ADDED 18:00:00 05/18/12
Some New Yorkers are taking “locavore” to the next level -- eating snails from the yard, foraging mushrooms in the parks. Super foragers Anya Pozdeeva and Christopher Toole, of Vertically Integrated Farms, share foraging tips, and explain their plan to turn New York City into a food production center through apartment-fish-farms and food forests.
SciFri: Cracking t...
31 Views 18:00:00 05/04/12
If you spin a hard-boiled egg in a pool of milk, the milk will wick up the sides of the egg and spray off at the egg’s equator. Engineer Tadd Truscott launched an ...
[LESS INFO] 31 VIEWS | ADDED 18:00:00 05/04/12
If you spin a hard-boiled egg in a pool of milk, the milk will wick up the sides of the egg and spray off at the egg’s equator. Engineer Tadd Truscott launched an investigation to figure out why this happens -- complete with a custom-built spinning apparatus, billiard balls and high speed video cameras.
Cracking The Egg Sp...
646 Views 14:10:00 05/04/12
If you spin a hard-boiled egg in a pool of milk, the milk will wick up the sides of the egg and spray off at the egg’s equator. Engineer Tadd Truscott launched an ...
[LESS INFO] 646 VIEWS | ADDED 14:10:00 05/04/12
If you spin a hard-boiled egg in a pool of milk, the milk will wick up the sides of the egg and spray off at the egg’s equator. Engineer Tadd Truscott launched an investigation to figure out why this happens -- complete with a custom-built spinning apparatus, billiard balls and high speed video cameras.
SciFri: Pied Piper...
43 Views 18:00:00 04/27/12
Mechanical engineer Maurizio Porfiri designs robot fish. A few years ago, he found that real fish would mill about his aquatic robot, and now he’s trying to unders...
[LESS INFO] 43 VIEWS | ADDED 18:00:00 04/27/12
Mechanical engineer Maurizio Porfiri designs robot fish. A few years ago, he found that real fish would mill about his aquatic robot, and now he’s trying to understand why. His research suggests that it has less to do with how the robot looks, than how it makes fish feel.