Swans on Tea

Labs at night
Images of what some labs look like when nobody is around. I’m a little surprised at the SLAC control room picture; I would have thought they would be manned 24/7 when they were running, so perhaps this is “at night while not running.” Many optics/atomic physics labs look pretty much the [...]

If You Have a Problem, Ask Everyone
A clearinghouse, of sorts, for unsolved problems, open to anyone who wants to try and solve them.
The idea that solutions can come from anywhere, and from people with seemingly unrelated work, is another key. Dr. Lakhani said his study of InnoCentive found that “the further the problem was from [...]

Western Spaghetti. Neat stop-action stuff.
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via Madame Lamb

Sandcastle Science via physics and physicists
“[W]et sand’s strength is more or less constant for anywhere between one and 30 per cent water.” That’s because there’s a trade-off between the strength of each bond between the grains - which lessens as the sand gets wetter - and the number of bonds, which increases as the sand [...]