This is the coolest science experiment you'll see all week - io9. I agree. When you see stuff like this (and countless other things in science, mathematics, and engineering) you realize you're seeing something deeply fundamental, what I like to call a "higher truth". Man, the day you become aware of a higher truth, that's a darn good day, because you're understanding of the universe around you has taken a step forward.
(And today is a darn good day.) I myself had a very similar moment once in one of my first year physics labs back in ancient days. The assignment was to test kinetic energy equations for parabolic motion to see if they validated. My experiments were giving results that didn't match predictions. I was thinking I'd have to run it all over again but then I noticed that the puck was also spinning as it traced its arc on the air table. I then realized that energy was being lost to putting a spin on the puck! I worked out the energy lost to spin with some rotational kinematics and sure enough, everything balanced to a three decimal places. NASA's SDO Captures a Monster Prominence [video]
Fox Snow Dive - Yellowstone - BBC Two. Botany.com: Plant Encyclopedia to Identify Plants, Flowers, Trees & More. Theoretical. Macro. Micro. Are Cell Phones Killing The Bees? [Updated] Do you enjoy eating? Then you may not be too happy if bee populations plunge. That's because out of the 100 crops that provide 90% of the world’s food, over 70 are pollinated by bees--and according to the UN, local drops in the bee population are being reported by beekeepers all over the planet. And the whole thing may be our fault: A new paper (PDF) from Swiss researcher Daniel Favre claims that part of the problem is our obsession with cell phones. According to Favre, a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, phone signals may confuse honeybees so much that they become fatally disoriented. Favre and his team performed 83 experiments that recorded honeybees' reaction to nearby cell phones in off, standby, and call-making mode.
The result: Honeybee noise increases by 10 times when a phone call is made or received. Normally, an increase in noise, or "worker piping," is used as a signal for bees to leave their hives. [Image by Flickr user Cignus]