Scientists have developed a new method to model heat wave magnitude that takes both the duration and the intensity of the heat wave into account. The new metric—the Heat Wave Magnitude Index daily (HWMId)—indicates that a little-studied heat wave in Finland in 1972 had the same extent and magnitude of the 2003 European heat wave...
Scientists have developed a graphene based microphone nearly 32 times more sensitive than microphones of standard nickel-based construction. The researchers, based at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, created a vibrating membrane – the part of a condenser microphone which converts the sound to a current – from graphene, and were able to show up to...
A University College London (UCL) mathematics student has worked out the secrets of how chocolate behaves in a chocolate fountain, answering the age-old question of why the falling ‘curtain’ of chocolate surprisingly pulls inwards rather than going straight downwards. The results are published today, 25th November 2015, in European Journal of Physics. “Chocolate fountains are...
The visual effects team from Christopher Nolan's epic, Interstellar, have provided new insights into the powerful effects of black holes.
