Submissions by aatish

The Water-Repelling Surface That Lives Outside My Window

A Frog That Can Survive Being Frozen Alive

To Save Drowning People, Ask Yourself “What Would Light Do?”

Using Microsoft Kinect to Make Your Own Dance Video

How to Toughen Glass by Cracking It: A Lesson From Teeth and Shells

The Questions That Computers Can Never Answer

The experiment that forever changed how we think about reality

The Fluid Dynamics Of Archerfish Hunting by Spitting

A New Kind of Food Science: How IBM is Using Big Data to Invent Creative Recipes

Fourier Transforms – The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face

The physics of human sperm vs. the physics of the sperm whale

The physics of why a swarm of caterpillars is faster than a single caterpillar

The science of levitating chains, explained using video analysis and physics

The physics of magnets can model how Supreme Court judges vote

Video analysis of the eruption at Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano

Universal laws behind growth patterns, from Tetris to coffee stains