Happy App Friday!
Play with solids, liquids and gases in States of Matter by Tinybop, and create and print blocky 3D objects with 3Draw from Appy Monkeys Software. Plus, the first image of a black hole.
Garry Froehlich
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States of Matter
by Tinybop Inc.
Explore how things transform from solid to liquid to gas in the newest app from Tinybop. Nozzles release things like water, gold, helium and even popcorn into teapots, jars and vases, and then you set the temperature to see how it behaves. It gives a fun visualization of the concepts of freezing and evaporating, and of course the app maintains Tinybop’s usual level of quality, which is to say it’s very good.
3Draw:Create Block Models
by Appy Monkeys Software
Appy Monkeys Software has released the latest in their line of 3D block-based modelling apps. Create characters and objects, snapshot them for use in other apps, or send them to a 3D printer to create physical models. Free April 12-13.
First Ever Image of a Black Hole
It may look like a blurry ring, but it is an image of one of the fundamental forces of the universe, gravity taken to the ultimate extreme. Scientists around the world synchronized radio telescopes using atomic clocks to create an observatory the size of the Earth. They then captured electromagnetic waves that took 55 million years to reach us from matter on the edge of falling into a bottomless pit in space. This is something so incredible that Einstein himself didn’t believe it could exist. We now have a picture of one.
Dr. Katie Bouman, one of the key researchers behind the image:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/meet-katie-bouman-the-scientist-behind-the-first-ever-picture-of-a-black-hole-1.4375377
