New music is often just old music put together in different ways. There’s only so many notes you can play, tunes you can sing, words you can string, you know? It’s just how it works, music sampling happens whether it’s acknowledged or not . For an entertaining look at the history of sampling, watch the video above. It’s everywhere. Read more…
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Listen to the fascinating history of sampling songs in music
Being shot into space puts spacecraft under extreme stress—but did you know that the sound of the rocket launch can damage a craft? Inside the Large European Acoustic Facility, engineers recreate the incredible noise of a launch to make sure satellites can survive it. According to the ESA, “no human could survive” the sound. Read more…
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This Insanely Loud Sound System Simulates the Roar of a Rocket Launch
Sure, early hominins used fire for upwards of a million years. But when did early hominins start acting like humans—for example, cooking in the same spot each night? The new discovery of an old ( really old) hearth at an Israeli dig site could hold the answer. Read more…
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Archaeologists Uncover 300,000-Year-Old Kitchen in Israeli Cave
Back in the late 19th century, impressionist artist Claude Monet captured this striking sunset on the Normandy Coast. Now, thanks to the work of forensic astronomers, we known the precise moment it happened: February 5th, 1883 — at exactly 4:53 PM. Read more…
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Astronomers know when Monet made this painting — to the very minute
With a literacy rate hovering around an estimated 5 to 10 percent of the population during the Middle Ages, only a select few of society’s upper echelons and religious castes had use for books. So who would have use for a sextuplet of stories bound by a single, multi-hinged cover like this? Some seriously busy scholar. Read more…
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This Transforming Medieval Text Is Actually Six Books in One
A side stitch is a common ailment while running, where you feel a sharp stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage. But you might be able to avoid that simply by changing your running gait to always breathe in and out on your left foot, suggests Dr. Tim Noakes in his book The Lore Of Running . Read more…
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Exhale on Your Left Foot to Avoid Side Stitches While Running
Reports of ball lightning have existed for hundreds of years, but footage of the rare phenomenon, which appears transiently in the form of a glowing sphere of electrical activity , has never been acquired outside the lab. Now, a team of Chinese researchers claims it has obtained the first recorded scientific video of ball lightning in action. Read more…
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Ball lightning has been captured on video for the first time ever
Just when you think that sex ed in high school and posters at clinics have covered all the times it is necessary to use protection, the human body (and various microbes) throw yet another horrifying sex scenario at you. We now suspect that people can get sexually transmitted food poisoning. Read more…
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There is such a thing as sexually transmitted food poisoning
Photovoltaic panels aren’t the most glamorous technology: They’re usually tucked away on a roof, and when you can see them, they’re ugly . And inefficient. But what if they made architecture more beautiful? And what if they were more than 50 percent more efficient, working even at night? Say hi to Rawlemon , a solar ball lens that is quickly making its way to market. Read more…
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These Beautiful Solar Orbs Are So Efficient They Even Harvest Moonlight
The bright ball that hovers over Times Square on New Year’s Eve is special this year. Sure, it’s iconic and colorful and mesmerizing as it always is. This year, however, the ball will captivate us all with a brand new crystal coating. And, boy, is it pretty. Read more…
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Inside the Design of the New Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball