Results for the label "science"

The Earth seen from space in real time on your desktop

Although unrelated to the PDA, today RECOMMEND wanted a small program, very curious, I have been using for some time: Desktop Earth. It is a free utility that is responsible for display on the Windows desktop background (although the Mac version is on the way) a photograph of our planet, as it would be [...]

What happens when a plane crosses the sound barrier?

To enjoy the small physical in all of us, we intend this post on the impact move at speeds close to that of sound, drawn blog Curious But Useless. It is all very well explained, with diagrams, animated images very striking. I can not read until today this problem with [...]