Alcohol is everywhere, but have you ever thought of it as art? Have you ever seen your favorite drink through a microscope? BevShots is the brain child of researcher Michael Davidson, who first photographed crystallized drinks on a lab slide. The company maintains a catalog of microscopic slides of beer, wines and cocktails remade into art. Pictured here is whiskey.
Chemical industry hooked on TV show ‘Breaking Bad’
The show has made it cool to like chemistry again, which explains why chemical industry executives, academics and shareholders are addicted.
Snuggle-worthy science
Buck the summertime tropical/nautical pillow trend and indulge your inner science dork by opting for Gus*Modern’s new organic cotton graphic pillow line featuring Venn diagrams, molecules and magnets.
serotonin - happiness, satisfaction
dopamine - love, passion, pleasure
acetylcholine - learning, memory, dreaming
On a whim, I came up with an alphabet made up of organic molecules. Does anyone want to turn this into a font?
C60 islands.
molecules do not like salt;
strange shapes resulting.
-“Buckminsterfullerene on KBr studied by High Resolution NC-AFM: Molecular nucleation and growth on an insulator”
Peaks in the spectrum!
Is that spin transfer I see?
No! Blasted cellphone!
-Paper, in preparation, on GHz noise in TMR junctions
Supernovae Flame
Miles-per-second fire
Slows down when bended
-“The Response of Model and Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flames to Curvature and Stretch”
Waves crashing, cold spray,
Churning the hot rain inwards,
On ember of star.
-“On Heavy Element Enrichment in Classical Novae”
Chlorite, iodide.
What makes such oscillations?
Perturb, gauge response.
-“Experiments and theory toward the determination of bifurcation features and the deduction of the mechanism of the oscillatory chlorite-iodide reaction”
Epsilon-Delta
the limit as x nears y
Joys of basic math!
-“On basic (higher-level) math”
Pictures from Princeton’s 2009 Art of Science competition. The description of the last image:
All because we live in a finger
Alex Dahlen (graduate student)
Department of PhysicsIn an attempt to account for what happened before the big bang, as well as the smallness of the cosmological constant, some physicists have been led to a model where our entire observable universe is contained inside a bubble, which is expanding at the speed of light into an exterior space.
But our bubble is not the only one; outside our bubble, there are an infinite number of other bubbles, all expanding just like ours. Sometimes they collide and send waves of death that wash across our universe. In this figure, the regions colored red have already been swept clean by the wave, and the yellow regions can see it coming.
A clear prediction of the model is that Earth resides in the thin sliver, or finger, that forms when two bubbles that have both collided with our bubble narrowly miss one another, indicated here with an arrow. It is thanks to our location here, in a finger, that despite the enormous swaths of our universe decimated by these waves, the odds are exponentially small that they lie in our future. We can all sleep sounder, and it’s all because we live in a finger.
