A harmonograph is a mechanical device that uses swinging pendulums to draw pictures, believed to be originally invented in 1844 by Scottish mathematician Hugh Blackburn. Karl Sims recently published a wonderful step-by-step how-to guide for building one of these impressive gadgets. Once built, the device...

Physicists recently reported studies on the metal tin that add knowledge to a concept known as magic numbers. Their findings could help scientists explain how heavy elements are made in exploding stars. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J35gnERsW6A[/youtube]

The survey, conducted by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, or Coache, included 9,512 responses from assistant professors at 63 public and private universities from across the country. Researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education surveyed 9,512 pre-tenure faculty members...

Albert Einstein, the genius physicist whose theories changed our ideas of how the universe works, died 55 years ago, on April 18, 1955, of heart failure. He was 76. His funeral and cremation were intensely private affairs, and only one photographer managed to capture the events of that extraordinary...

Do you want to know how Issac Newton and Einstein created new laws of Physics ? Here is an interesting answer from Richard Feynman [youtube width="500" height="400"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b240PGCMwV0[/youtube] What do you think about this explanation, please let me know via comments