Popular Mechanics has an article posted today explaining how fireworks are made. It’s amazing how old school even the most elaborate fireworks displays still are.
Every step of this process is a complex, carefully crafted process. If one thing is off—too much black powder, misaligned stars or a misplaced trigger—everything can fail. Here’s a look at how professionals pull it off every year while one-upping last year’s pyrotechnic display.
Watch what happens when we crack open a raw egg 60 feet (20 meters) below the surface!
A unique close-up image of a living human brain has won the Wellcome Prize for microscope photography after it was taken during a surgical procedure to treat a patient with epilepsy.
Taken by Robert Ludlow of UCL’s Institute of Neurology, the image is a rare shot of a living brain – a view normally only seen by neurosurgeons, showing veins, arteries and grey matter flushed pink with blood.
