(via Vox) F1 races are exhilarating. While racing alongside 21 other cars, an F1 driver can reach speeds of up to 231 mph, making it one of the world's most dangerous sports.

(via Reactions) I spent three months of my life trying to figure out pykrete—basically ice with wood pulp mixed in—how it works and how I could make it better. I still don’t know how it works, but I ...

I tried to improve pykrete for months, then tossed it off a building. I spent three months of my life trying to figure out pykrete—basically ice with wood pulp mixed in—how it works and how I could ...

Just before the outbreak of the First World War, one visionary Japanese naval officer proposed plans for what could have been the largest warship ever built. Called the Zipang, this mega ship would ...

It sounds like something dreamed up on a napkin during a long winter night, but it was very real. In the middle of World War II, Allied engineers seriously considered building giant aircraft carriers ...

Project Habakkuk was a wartime proposal to build an enormous aircraft carrier from “pykrete,” an ice-and-wood-pulp composite pitched as strong, slow to melt, and difficult to sink. The transcript ...

Learn the chemical science behind drugs, food, animal behavior, climate change and more with videos from Reactions—a science video series that uncovers the chemistry all around us.

#lambda是一个正数，表示单位时间内发生事件的平均次数。泊松分布的概率质量函数为：P(X=k)=(λ^k * e^(-λ)) / k!，其中k ...

MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER ON February 23 1948, the ...