- Set the hair dryer to cool, switch it on, and point it at the ceiling. - Carefully put the ping-pong ball in the stream of air. Hold the hair dryer very steady and watch as the ping-pong ball floats ...
Brown dwarfs are objects that straddle the dividing line between stars and planets. They form like stars, growing dense enough to collapse under their own gravity, but they never become dense and hot ...
Unlike traditional flotation devices such as round tubes or pool noodles—which offer uneven support, limit mobility, and often force the body into tension-filled postures—the Float’n Thang Zero ...
We live in a marvelous time. Above us, metal vessels soar 30,000 feet high, cutting through clouds and turbulent air at hundreds of miles per hour. In the ocean, massive structures glide across the ...
Iliya I. Blekhman is at the Institute of Problems in Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Science, St Petersburg 199178, Russia. The extraordinary behaviours of vibrating fluids are just a small ...
BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have successfully achieved the first direct mass measurement of a free-floating object, confirming that it is a planet with a mass comparable to that of Saturn. This key ...
This artist’s impression shows the free-floating planet CFBDSIR 2149-0403. This is the closest such object to the Solar System. ESO/L. Calçada/P. Delorme/R. Saito/VVV Consortium A mysterious celestial ...
The flight of Icarus in the house of the Priest Amandus in Pompeii / Bettina Bergmann -- Levitating gods and dream imagery on Roman coinage / Constantin A. Marinescu -- Succumbing to gravity in the ...
Space. This image is for illustration purposes only. BEIJING, Jan 4 (Bernama-Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have successfully achieved the first direct mass measurement of a free-floating object, ...