Superfluid helium represents a fascinating state of matter, manifesting unique quantum mechanical behaviours at ultralow temperatures, including frictionless flow and the absence of viscosity. In ...

A 128Hz medical tuning fork appeared in my collection thanks to a friend! Have you ever used a tuning fork? According to Wikipedia, the tuning fork was invented in 1711 by British musician John Shore, ...

The Keefer Bar, located in Vancouver’s Chinatown, has the appearance of a postwar back-alley Asian apothecary-cum-opium-den. Behind the bar are jars of medicinal herbs—astragalus, magnolia bark, a ...

In his latest Atlantic piece, Wayne Curtis explores a new-agey question: can the vibrations of a tuning fork improve a cocktail? No matter how inventive a bartender may be when it comes to choosing ...

MR. HERMANN SMITH, in a letter in NATURE last week, commenting upon my paper read before the Physical Society on June 10, of which you gave a short report, offers some very cogent experiments in ...