Anna Sorokin — also known as Anna Delvey — is opening up about her time in jail and revealing some surprising details about a new famous friend she made following the success of Inventing Anna. The fake billionaire socialite, who is currently behind bars trying to fight deportation after overstaying her visa, appeared virtually for an interview […]
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Scalloped iceberg sculptures occur due to the weirdness of water
Enlarge (credit: Scott Weady ) You would think that understanding something as common as melting ice would be relatively easy. But water is a peculiar substance, and that makes it very hard to predict how ice will melt. A lot of that unpredictability has been attributed in order to water flowing around the ice (as […]
Study: Leidenfrost effect occurs in all three water phases: Solid, liquid, and vapor
Slow-motion video of boiling ice, a research project of the Nature-Inspired Fluids and Interfaces Lab at Virginia Tech. Dash a few drops of water onto a very hot, sizzling skillet and they’ll levitate, sliding around the pan with wild abandon. Physicists at Virginia Tech have discovered that this can also be achieved by placing a […]
Electric cars have much lower life cycle emissions, new study confirms
Enlarge / If we’re serious about decarbonizing, the internal combustion engine has to go by 2030-2035, according to a new study. (credit: Reinhard Krull/EyeEm/Getty Images) If you listen to electric vehicle naysayers, switching to EVs is pointless because even if the cars are vastly more efficient than ones that use internal combustion engines—and they are—that […]
Supercool MLB pitcher Jared Hughes plays amateur Bill Nye with ‘liquid nucleation’ in his car (We’ll explain)
As a free agent, days before spring training, Jared Hughes has some time on his hands. So, the 35-year-old pitcher, who had a 4.84 ERA with 21 strikeouts in 18 relief appearances for the Mets last year, is doing a little home science. Read more…