Category: Science
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Watch vegetables get turned into juice with underwater shockwaves
Screw juicing or making kale smoothies, here’s the next big trend in what to drink: turning fruit and vegetables into juice with underwater shockwaves. The outside of the vegetable look the same after the explosion but the inside has turned into juice. Just stick a straw in and enjoy. It’s a stunt ad for Japanese…
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Watch as Great White sharks attack underwater cameras
REMUS SharkCam: The hunter and the hunted: In 2013, a team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution took a specially equipped REMUS “SharkCam” underwater vehicle to Guadalupe Island in Mexico to film great white sharks in the wild. They captured more than they bargained for.
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Your Body on Brain Doping: Red Bull team push through fatigue with neurostimulation
In the late 1990s, South African researcher Tim Noakes proposed that a “central governor” in the brain prevents us from getting too dangerously close to the absolute limits of our bodies. Physiologists have been arguing ever since about the brain’s role in determining truly “maximal” effort, but the bottom line is clear: “We know there’s…
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Myrtha admits possible current in Barcelona 2013 pool, will do better in Berlin
Read SwimVortex: Trevor Tiffany, chairman of Myrtha USA, spokesperson for A&T Europe S.p.a.’s Myrtha Pools division and the man who stripped off and took to the water with plastic bottles in Barcelona last year in an attempt to show that the company simply could not detect any evidence of a significant current, now acknowledges that…
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How does a brain-eating amoeba eat brains?
Last week, nine-year-old Hally Yust died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba infection while swimming near her family’s home in Kansas. The organism responsible, Naegleria fowleri, dwells in warm freshwater lakes and rivers and usually targets children and young adults. Once in the brain it causes a swelling called primary meningoencephalitis. The infection is almost…
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The Science of Freediving: Your Body’s Amazing Reaction To Water
Read ideas.ted.com In 1949, a stocky Italian air force lieutenant named Raimondo Bucher decided to try a potentially deadly stunt off the coast of Capri, Italy. Bucher would sail out to the center of the lake, take a breath and hold it, and free-dive down one hundred feet to the bottom. Waiting there would be…
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Hats Off: Students find ways to make duct tape and cardboard poolworthy
Read Lubbockonline Seven boats constructed only of careboard and duct tape raced across the Pete Ragus Aquatic Center recently in the first Texas Tech/Lubbock Independent School District STEM challenge. The boats were all occupied by four middle school students. The O.L. Slaton team won the competition.
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Study Shows Swimmers Gain An Advantage When They Recover With Chocolate Milk
Read USA Swimming Grabbing chocolate milk after a hard swim could give swimmers a performance edge, according to new research presented at one of the nation’s top sports medicine conferences – the American College of Sports Medicine’s annual conference. In a sport where seconds and even tenths of a second can make a big difference…
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Getting fish drunk doubles its swim-speed
Read The Times Of India A single zebrafish, exposed to alcohol, not only doubles its swim-speed among its “sober” peers, but also increases the speed of the whole group, a new study has found. New findings by researchers at the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering are helping to unravel the complex interplay between…