Brain-Rain.

scienceing:

One half of the humans are female, so one half of the scientists should be female.

- Bill Nye at the Storytelling of Science at ASU

Yes, exactly. We need more girls going into science! Now there aren’t many Nobel Prizes being given to women, mostly because society pushed them away from science decades ago. But now that can all be changed, if more girls go into science. 

Bringing a Virtual Brain to Life

“For months, Henry Markram and his team had been feeding data into a supercomputer, four vending-machine-size black boxes whirring quietly in the basement of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. The boxes housed thousands of microchips, each programmed to act like a brain cell. Cables carried signals from microchip to microchip, just as cells do in a real brain.” READ MORE

Euler’s Equation

This simple formula encapsulates something pure about the nature of spheres: ”It says that if you cut the surface of a sphere up into faces, edges and vertices, and let F be the number of faces, E the number of edges and V the number of vertices, you will always get V – E + F = 2,” said Colin Adams, a mathematician at Williams College in Massachusetts.”A very cool fact! The combinatorics of the vertices, edges and faces is capturing something very fundamental about the shape of a sphere,” Adams said. via The 11 Most Beautiful Mathematical Equations

“High-resolution high-contrast X-ray radiography of plant seeds combined with images taken by microscopy.” via

Liquid Rope Coiling

The phenomenon that causes this straight stream of viscous honey to “coil” as it comes into contact with the surface of a liquid. via

know-knowledge:

I got inspiration from Carl Sagan’s book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Used this video.

(via iaccidentallyallthephysics)

(via scienceing)