SicScience attended a BrisScience presentation on bee navigation last night. The presentation was really interesting and had lot of experiments and robotics. You can read more about the research in the link below. A video will be posted soon.
http://brisscience.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/monday-23-june-2014/
Some teens in Africa have been experimenting with urine as an alternative fuel source. Read about it below and see if you think this is viable.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewdepaula/2012/11/08/teens-create-a-way-to-use-urine-as-fuel/
SpaceX has launched and landed a second rocket. Yes, landing the same way it takes off. I remember when this only happened in video games. Watch the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWgCQgzJOU4
The Coca-Cola Company does a lot of bad things. But this time they have invented a set of tools to make their empty bottles more useful. Watch the video.
Have you ever noticed trucks carrying gas bottles. What is the worst that can happen? This video shows a car accident followed by explosion after explosion. Be careful out there.
Source: Facebook
Plants communicate with each other both above and below ground as described in this video, and it is pretty interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IjaZ2g-21E
Remember the 19 year old who designed a machine to remove plastic from the ocean? Well he needs your help. He is crowd funding his project and has made fantastic progress shown in this video. Fund the clean up here: http://www.theoceancleanup.com/
While it will be a long time before we can defy gravity, scientist got one step closer today, discovering that superconductivity is caused by electrons traveling in pairs. This was published in Nature but is explained a little better in IFLScience.
A pendulum hanging from the ceiling of van, a helium balloon tethered to the floor … Which direction do they both move when you accelerate? Try to answer before watching the video.