Science is so very cool…

Check out this video:

It shows a water droplet falling onto a carbon nanotubule surface that is perfectly hydrophobic (water resistant), so much so that the surface tension of the droplet is enough to keep it in a tight ball and allow it to bounce!  I especially like the sequence showing two droplets colliding and merging…

Another Symphony of Science production

I love these songs, done with the Autotune software and emphasizing science and reason using the voices of some of the brightest lights in science. This one, ‘The Poetry of Reality’, is my second favorite, after the original one done with Carl Sagan called ‘Glorious Dawn’.

You can find many more videos at the Symphony of Science website.