One of the great treats of my chemistry education at UT-Austin was having the original gaseous diffusion process for enriching uranium explained to me by a man who worked on...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday June 19th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Science | 2 Comments
Here is the fifth video in Engineer Guy Series #4. The element of the week is cesium, as in "cesium fountain atomic clock." Watching it, my jaw was on the...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday June 13th, 2012 6:29 AM
Categories: Education, Science | 10 Comments
A finger rubbed in superhydrophobic aerogels and submerged in water takes on a decidedly T-1000-esque appearance. And a droplet of water on a piece of paper treated with the same...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday June 8th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Science | 7 Comments
In this, the fourth installment of Engineer Guy Series #4, Bill, Patrick, and Nick show off the engineering that accounts for three key characteristics of laser light: single wavelengths, narrow...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday June 5th, 2012 9:00 AM
In this off-the-cuff video, MIT prof and MAKE pal Gregory Charvat shoots Nerf darts into the beam of an old X-band Doppler radar gun with its output hacked into a...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday June 4th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Education, Electronics, Science | No Comments
As much as I love Engineer Guy videos, I am especially partial to Series #4, because it is themed around the chemical elements—each installment features a different element and a...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday May 29th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Education, Science | 2 Comments
Here, with great fanfare, is the second installment of Engineer Guy Series #4: theMEMSaccelerometer. With typical flair, Bill and his production team take us from the basic concept of an...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday May 28th, 2012 1:00 PM
Categories: Education, Electronics, Science | No Comments
In July 2004, Astronaut Mike Fincke melted some solder aboard the International Space Station. The behavior of the solder in zero gravity is fascinating to watch.
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Friday May 25th, 2012 7:00 AM
Categories: Science | 12 Comments
A group Case Western Reserve University undergraduates have created a waterproof Kevlar-reinforced pouch filled with shear-thickening fluid that can be simply dropped into a pothole to effect a quick fix....
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday April 30th, 2012 5:59 AM
Categories: Science | 4 Comments
Spud gun on steroids!
Posted by Daniel Spangler | Friday April 6th, 2012 3:10 PM
Categories: Science | 8 Comments
Part of a series of skeletal gas discharge lamps from sculptor Eric Franklin. This one is called Embodiment. Franklin's work makes a nice compliment to Jessica Lloyd-Jones' neon organs, which...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday April 3rd, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Science | 1 Comment
MAKE regular David Prutchi shows how his ten-year-old daughter and he remade an expensive "designer" sand pendulum using hardware-store components.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday March 20th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Kids & Family, Science | 3 Comments
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