Archive for the 'Strange' Category
Scientists Rethink How Bubbles Form
By Ker Than, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 21 August 2007 01:06 pm ET
Bubbles add fizz to champagne and spring to foam mattresses, but the details about how they form have been murky.
A new computer simulation now challenges a theory about bubble formation that has been around since the 1920s and suggests they might form more simply, and faster, than was previously thought.
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New Measurement: Earth Smaller Than Thought
By LiveScience Staff
posted: 05 July 2007 01:03 pm ET
New measurements of Earth’s size show our home planet is a tad smaller than previously thought. Earth is generally agreed to have a diameter of about 7,900 miles and a circumference of about 24,900 miles. The new findings, detailed in the latest issue of the Journal of Geodesy, suggest our planet is some millimeters smaller than previously thought.
No commentsCourthouse ‘Ghost’ Video Mystery Solved
By Benjamin Radford, Special to LiveScience
posted: 21 June 2007 07:24 pm ET
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO—Over the past week, a glowing, fuzzy white blob became an unlikely international star. It was captured on videotape early Friday morning, June 15, by a security camera at a courthouse here.
The “ghost video” has been seen over 75,000 times on YouTube; what started as a local curiosity soon became a national, then international, story.
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