If you are not familiar with Schlieren photography, you are not alone. It is a photography technique that allows the differing densities of gases to be photographed. Now Dr. Gary Settles, an engineering professor at At Pennsylvania State University and Dr. Julian Tang, a virus expert from Singapore have used the technique to capture, for the first time, the gas dynamics of a cough. (more…)

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If the summer movie list leaves you unexcited, the summer gaming line up will not.  There are an unprecedented number of hot first person shooter titles coming out over the summer. Whether you have a PC, a 360 or a PS3 there is sure to be a title to catch your interest.  Rather than jam all of this into one article, it is going to be a three part series.  We are going to avoid the niceties and focus on what really counts, the things that go bang.  We have gone out of our way to source as many images of the weapons as possible.  There is a high likelihood, however, that we missed some out.  If you believe that one was missed, make a comment and include a link to an image and we will work on getting it up.   The first part of our series is Halo 3.  Please put your fanboyism on hold and appreciate some of the fine games that are available for the different consoles.

Bungie’s Halo 3 is perhaps the most anticipated game for Xbox 360 gamers.  It is not going to hit any other platform initially, though it may go to PC later.  Microsoft is going for broke marketing the game.  “Halo 2″ had the most impressive first day sales of any game ever released.  $125 million on its first day alone, there are only movies that have ever beaten “Halo 2″ in the box office, “Spiderman 3″ and “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.” This could be just the game to dig Microsoft out of its Xbox 360, considering the amount of faulty consoles that they sold.
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