MetaFilter posts tagged with physics and chemistry

Tom Lehrer has some work to do...

darkstar — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:07:20 -0800

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been able to confirm the production of the superheavy element 114, ten years after a group in Russia, at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, first claimed to have made it. The search for 114 has long been a key part of the quest for nuclear science’s hoped-for Island of Stability.

(Experience is especially long at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley – not least because Glenn Seaborg discovered plutonium here early in 1941.)

The Periodic Table will continue to refer to the element by its IUPAC systematic element name, ununquadium, until agreement is made on a final "trivial" name for the element. Previously on MeFi: Element 112. Tom Lehrer's classic song, "The Elements".

Sixty Symbols

DU — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:24:31 -0800

What Periodic Videos did for chemistry, Sixty Symbols is doing for physics and engineering. Some behind the scenes action and general scienciness. Some of the "symbols" are a little iffy and many are just jumping off points for a cool science demo/discussion, but that doesn't change the high quality of the material.

Genesis Revisited

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:00:41 -0800

Genesis Revisited scientifically summarises the scientific field of Creation Science (warning: science) [transcript]

Homework Helper

netbros — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:39:07 -0800

World of Science contains budding encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics. This resource has been assembled over more than a decade by internet encyclopedist Eric Weisstein with assistance from the internet community. MeFi visited Weisstein's Mathworld a couple years ago.

These molecules, they vibrate?

louche mustachio — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:16:58 -0800

The Science of Scent. An entertaining and enlightening TED talk by biophysicist Luca Turin.

I Didn't Know That

netbros — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:11:17 -0800

Science Hack is a unique search engine for science videos focusing on Physics, Chemistry, and Space. For example, things to do with sulfur hexafluoride. Still growing, the editors are presently indexing other scientific fields of study including Geology, Psychology, Robotics and Computers. Ever wonder why things go bang?

Let Me Just Roll Up My Sleeves to Make Sure You're Not Dying

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:06:05 -0800

Carl Zimmer's Science Tattoo Emporium - "Underneath their sober lab coats and flannel shirts, scientists hide images of their scientific passions. Here they are revealed to all." From the science journalist and writer responsible for The Loom and numerous other published works.

Physics simulators. Lots of physics simulators.

loquacious — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 09:47:41 -0800

PhET - Physics Education Technology offers this astoundingly large library of online physics simulations. Play orbital billiards. Land on a cheesy moon. Experiment with sound. Or try more advanced quantum physics simulators. Still bored? Try the "cutting edge" catagory. Here's the complete index. (Warnings: Frames, Flash, Javascript, Java applets, graphics, sound, quantum timesuck.)

I love the smell of alkali metals in the morning...

ozomatli — Tue, 30 May 2006 08:22:41 -0800

The dog's nuts of the periodic table.

The Sceptical Chymist

thatwhichfalls — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:23:16 -0800

The Works of natural philosopher Robert Boyle (1627 - 1697) at the Robert Boyle Project, based at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Widely regarded as the first modern chemist (his book The Sceptical Chymist is perhaps the founding text of chemistry as a science), he was also an alchemist and made significant contributions in physics (for example Boyle's law) and physiology.
The Robert Boyle homepage has as its centrepiece a large collection of images of Boyles' papers. Images and transcriptions of his marvellous work diaries are available at the AHRC Centre for Editing Lives and Letters.

Even the Non Scientist and Curious!

breezeway — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 09:40:51 -0800

On the mission to understand and communicate miracles of Life on Earth and the mysteries reaching beyond the stars.

From Big Bang to Humankind

WolfDaddy — Tue, 13 May 2003 16:55:31 -0800

Cosmic Evolution -- Particulate, Galactic, Stellar, Planetary, Chemical, Biological, Cultural (Via the Exploratorium)