Add water to whiskey. Science explains why it tastes better. A Bowmore 12 Whiskey on the rocks at Chicken Whiskey in Washington.
(Deb Lindsey/For The Washington Post) Two physical chemists walk into a bar. They order whiskeys, and a jolly Scotsman one stool over insists they add a splash of water to optimize the flavor of the spirits. Inspired by the smooth, smoky flavor, they vow to investigate a question whiskey enthusiasts answered decades ago: Does adding water to whiskey really make it taste better? That’s the almost true story behind a paper published this week in the journal Scientific Reports. Like a good scientist, he wanted to test the assumption, so he teamed up with Karlsson and used computer simulations to model the molecular composition of whiskey.
There are two competing theories for why adding water to whiskey might improve the flavor, Karlsson said. Whiskey contains fatty acid esters that have two very different ends. Watch: The Physics of Time Explained in Under 3 Minutes. In Brief Henry from Minute Physics takes a stab at explaining the concept of time in physics with simple graphics in his sketch on Youtube.
Many people find the concepts in physics challenging to wrap their head around. Visual aids and explanations can definitely help, though. The Youtube Channel Minute Physics videos do just that. In the video featured below, Henry from MinutePhysics explains the relativity of time in under three minutes. With a clever demonstration that pits two giraffe owners against one another, Henry explains how, if two people are positioned at different vantage points, should they take a measurement of something (in this example, a giraffe) the differing angles would make it seem as though the sizes are different.
As those vantage points and angles may affect our perception of size, Henry also explains how velocity affects our perception of time. Growing gap between longest and shortest lifespans in the US emphasizes the need for policy action. The national life expectancy in the US has increased since 1980, but improvement depends on where you live One county’s life expectancy comparable to Sudan and Iraq “Policy changes at all levels gravely needed to reduce inequality in the health of Americans” SEATTLE – Babies born today in 13 US counties have shorter expected lifespans than their parents did when they were born decades ago, according to a new study.
For example, life expectancy at birth in Owsley County, Kentucky, was 72.4 in 1980, dropping to 70.2 in 2014. Video Proof That the Universe Is Not an Entirely Logical Place. In Brief The standard model of physics is perfect when we're looking at matter on an observable scale.
It shows that universe behaves in a specific, predictable way. That is, it works until we shrink down to the confusing quantum realm. Quantum Confusion The video below shows scientific proof that there is something NOT quite logical or scientific about this universe. Microbiologists unravel relationship among plants, mycorrhizal fungi. An ancient, mutually beneficial relationship between plants and fungi could make agriculture more sustainable by reducing the need for chemical fertilizers, according to professor Heike Bücking of the South Dakota State University Department of Biology and Microbiology.
For more than 500 million years, the majority of land plants have shared their carbohydrates with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi that colonize their root systems, Bücking explained. In exchange, these fungi provide plants with nitrogen and phosphorous and improve the stress resistance of their hosts. These fungi, which are seen as living fossils, explore the soil with their hyphae in the search for nutrients and deliver these nutrients to their hosts.
The LHC Just Discovered A New System of Five Particles. A Unique Find The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the latest addition to CERN’s accelerator complex, is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built.
It features a 27 kilometer (16 mile) ring made of superconducting magnets and accelerating structures built to boost the energy of particles in the chamber. In the accelerator, two high-energy particle beams are forced to collide from opposite directions at speeds close to the speed of light. The energy densities that are created when these collisions occur cause ordinary matter to melt into its constituent parts—quarks and gluons. Scientists have confirmed a brand new form of matter: time crystals.
For months now, there's been speculation that researchers might have finally created time crystals - strange crystals that have an atomic structure that repeats not just in space, but in time, putting them in constant oscillation without energy.
Now it's official - researchers have just reported in detail how to make and measure these bizarre crystals. And two independent teams of scientists claim they've actually created time crystals in the lab based off this blueprint, confirming the existence of an entirely new phase of matter. The discovery might sound pretty abstract, but it heralds in a whole new era in physics - for decades we've been studying matter that's defined as being 'in equilibrium', such as metals and insulators. But it's been predicted that there are many more strange types of matter out there in the Universe that aren't in equilibrium that we haven't even begun to look into, including time crystals.
And now we know they're real. Most Popular Baby Names by State 1910-2015. Pmed.0020124. Area 51 revealed in new Google timelapse video. Area 51 is one of the most secretive locations in the world.
The Nevada-based military testing facility has been a focal point of many conspiracy theorists and UFOlogists since the late 1970s, who claim that the base houses secretive alien technology. Now, a Google timelapse has revealed how the mysterious base has developed over the past 32 years. This animation reveals how Area 51 has evolved since 1984 using Google Earth's timelapse feature. The Nevada-based military testing facility has been a focal point of many conspiracy theorists and UFOlogists since the late 1970s The sprawling military complex sits between a dry lake bed to the North East, and a small mountain to the West.
The images were captured using Google's timelapse feature. Timelapse is a global, zoomable video that lets users see how the Earth has changed over the past 32 years. It is made from 33 cloud-free annual mosaics, one for each year from 1984 to 2016. Researchers discover a totally unexpected behaviour of water inside carbon nanotubes. We all know that, at sea level, water starts to boil at 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit).
And in very confined spaces, researchers have long observed that this boiling point can change, usually dropping by several degrees. But now a team has shown for the first time that water confined in carbon nanotubes - some of the tiniest spaces on Earth - behaves in a completely unexpected way. Instead of boiling at lower temperatures, researchers have shown that water in these tubes can actually freeze solid at temperatures well above boiling point. "The effect is much greater than anyone had anticipated," said lead researcher Michael Strano from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Light Photographed As A Wave And A Particle For The First Time. <img class="full-width" typeof="foaf:Image" alt="" data-smsrc="<a pearltreesdevid="PTD498" rel="nofollow" href=" class="vglnk"><span pearltreesdevid="PTD499">http</span><span pearltreesdevid="PTD501">://</span><span pearltreesdevid="PTD503">www</span><span pearltreesdevid="PTD505">.
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Geological surveys have suggested that it stretched from Britain’s east coast to the Netherlands and the western coasts of Germany and the peninsula ofJutland. It was probably a rich habitat with human habitation in the Mesolithic period, although rising sea levels gradually reduced it to low-lying islands before its final destruction, perhaps following a tsunami caused by the Storegga Slide. Analysis of the Occult Symbols Found on the Bank of America Murals. Prominently displayed in the lobby of the Bank of America’s Corporate Center are “creepy” frescoes, filled with occult symbols. Even more unsettling is the fact that those images seem to predict events of a radical world change in the not-so-distant future. Are those murals predicting the coming of an occult New World Order?
Pear-Shaped Nuclei Explain Lack Of Antimatter And Make Time-Travel Impossible. In physics sometimes proving the obvious is more complex than proving the difficult. The obvious, in this case, is why the universe is made of matter. From your loud neighbor to the furthest galaxy everything is made of matter, but the laws of physics are symmetrical so there should be just as much anti-matter. So why isn't there? We haven’t got a full picture yet, but an international group of physicists might have found a very important clue. They discovered that some atomic nuclei aren’t symmetric, but are actually pear-shaped. Elon Musk Says We’re Probably Living In A Computer Simulation – Here’s The Science. In a recent interview at the Code Conference in California, technology entrepreneur Elon Musk suggested we are living inside a computer simulation.
On first hearing, this claim seems far-fetched. But could there be some substance to Musk’s thinking? As founder of a number of high-profile companies, such as Tesla and Space X, Musk’s business interests lie firmly in leading technologies. Key to his claim is that computer games have evolved rapidly over the past 40 years to the point that, inside the next few years, they will be fully immersive, with a computer-generated and controlled world seamlessly merged with the physical world.
Cosmic Explosion Among the Brightest in Recorded History. Cosmic Explosion Among the Brightest in Recorded History Scientists have detected a flash of light from across the Galaxy so powerful that it bounced off the Moon and lit up the Earth's upper atmosphere. The flash was brighter than anything ever detected from beyond our Solar System and lasted over a tenth of a second. NASA and European satellites and many radio telescopes detected the flash and its aftermath on December 27, 2004.
Two science teams report about this event at a special press event today at NASA headquarters. A multitude of papers are planned for publication. Image/animation above: Image 1: Artist conception of the December 27, 2004 gamma ray flare expanding from SGR 1806-20 and impacting Earth’s atmosphere. There's A Second Layer Of Information In DNA. Looks Like We Were Wrong About the Origin of Dogs. A Crazy Headband That Lets You Control Your Dreams. NASA planning 'suspended animation' cryosleep chamber that lets astronauts hibernate whilst travelling to distant worlds.
NASA is planning to plough up to $500,000 dollars into a scheme to develop a hibernation chamber which will put humans to sleep for up to 14 days. Untitled. Untitled. Space Debris Has Chipped One Of The ISS's Windows. Death In Space. Missing links brewed in primordial puddles? The crucibles that bore out early building blocks of life may have been, in many cases, modest puddles. Now, researchers working with that hypothesis have achieved a significant advancement toward understanding an evolutionary mystery—how components of RNA and DNA formed from chemicals present on early Earth before life existed.
New 'Tunneling' State Of Water Molecules Is A Rulebreaker. A Tale of Do-It-Yourself Gene Therapy. Can aging be slowed by using gene therapy to make permanent changes to a person’s DNA? Shared Dreaming - Real Life Inception. Shared Dreaming – Real Life Inception By Ian Wilson (2010) Public Domain No Copyright. Definition Shared Dreaming or Mutual Dreaming mentioned by Stephen LaBerge[1] and Lynda Lane Magallon[2] is a type of dream where two or more people share the same dream content from the their own perspective. Upon waking the participants are able to recall the same details, settings and even conversations they had with each other during the mutual dream.
New Tree Of Life Published - And Most Of The Species On It Are A Complete Mystery To Us. Sex of a baby? Ancient virus makes the call. 350-Year-Old Pendulum Clock Mystery Solved. The 350-year-old mystery of why pendulum clocks hanging from the same wall can influence each other and synchronize over time may hold even more secrets than previously thought, researchers say. Solving this mystery could shed light on puzzling aspects of a variety of synchronized behaviors, such as how brain cells work together, the scientists added.
Dinosaur Extinction May Have Been Caused By An "Interstellar Cloud" The science behind why you like (or hate) the taste of beer. Scientists Built a Chicken With Dinosaur Legs. Io9.gizmodo. Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong. Researchers discover plastic-loving bacteria in recycling plant. Latest CERN Results Indicate There Is Something Very Wrong With Particle Physics. U of T researchers develop homegrown human on a chip. I asked 8 researchers why the science of nutrition is so messy. Here’s what they said. Food companies distort nutrition science. Here's how to stop them. Humans Didn't Make These Tiny Handprints - So Who Did? 5 Mysterious Structures from the World's Smallest Architects.
Genome Sequencing for the Rest of Us. 23andMe Is Terrifying, but Not for the Reasons the FDA Thinks. Kuwait has become the first country to make DNA testing mandatory for all residents. Birth of a microbiome: Researchers smear babies with vaginal fluid. Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? - The Nature of Reality — The Nature of Reality. Artificial Intelligence Solved the Mystery of Flatworm Regeneration.
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