Devil’s Pool is a natural rock pool at the very top of the Victoria Falls, at Zimbabwe, with a height of about 100 metres, where you can swim safely and take pictures. picked by wildminou 9 months ago

They filled a pool with a mix of cornstarch and water made on a concrete mixer truck. It becomes a non-newtonian fluid. When stress is applied to the liquid it exhibits properties of a solid. More info here. Recorded in Barcelona, Spain. picked by misswinkle 1 year ago

Nemo 33 is a recreational diving center in Brussels, Belgium that is home to the world's deepest swimming pool. The pool itself consists of a submerged structure with flat platforms at various depth levels. The pool has two large flat-bottomed areas at depth levels of 5m (16 ft) and 10m (32 ft), and a large circular pit descending to a depth of 33m (108 ft). picked by Boomshank 2 years ago

Hundreds of millions — or even billions — of years after planets would have initially formed around two unusual stars, a second wave of planetesimal and planet formation appears to be taking place. "This is a new class of stars, ones that display conditions now ripe for formation of a second generation of planets, long, long after the stars themselves formed." picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

Anyone who has wondered what it might be like to dive into a pool of millions of distant galaxies of different shapes and colours, will enjoy the latest image released by ESO. Obtained in part with the Very Large Telescope, the image is the deepest ground-based U-band image of the Universe ever obtained. It contains more than 27 million pixels and is the result of 55 hours of observations with the... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 1 week ago

The LHC is getting all the coverage, but another major physics experiment the Virgo gravity-wave interferometer, an €80 million (US$114 million) has been incapacitated by a vacuum failure for most of the summer, and is expected to stay out of commission for a month or two to come. It is searching for that elusive Gravity Wave picked by bernardblack 2 months ago

With some parts of Europe currently in the middle of a heat wave, it seems it's not only people who suffer from the soaring temperatures. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Someone threw a bag of poop in the pool. b*****ds. picked by misswinkle 1 year ago

Two decades of scrutinizing Saturn are finally paying off, as scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

2 yr. old Caleb Glover, who was born with AIDS, was barred from entering a public pool by some folks who need more up-to-date health education. picked by VooDooPeacock 1 year ago

This is a trippy perceptual phenomenon which will mess with your head a little bit. Sine wave speech is artificially degraded speech that sounds like just beeps and whistles until you have been primed to hear it as speech. Try it, you will be amazed! picked by mahler87 10 months ago

Kerby Brown’s story of catching a monster 41 foot wave is sweeping across the internet. He was recently filmed surfing the rogue wave, in an undisclosed location, before wiping out and nearly killing himself. picked by chappy 4 days ago

Abigail was injured when she sat on a pool drain and was disemboweled by its powerful suction last June.

Follow-up to this post. picked by cb__ 8 months ago

An unusual electrical disturbance has been spotted in space, travelling unchanged through the ionised gas surrounding Earth. A European space mission called Cluster detected a "soliton" wave, a phenomenon similar to the self-contained solitons that can travel along optical fibres and channels of water on Earth. This is the first known soliton in space. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

A father and his five-year-old son were turned away from their local swimming pool because they were the wrong religion.

David Toube, 39, and his son Harry were told that the Sunday morning session was reserved for Muslim men only. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Police looking for drug activity in a residential area on Father's Day saw something they weren't expecting: a fire crew hooking their hose into a hydrant and filling a private swimming pool with water. picked by DrNothing 1 year ago

yeah. you read it right. Not much more to add. Woman is prohibited from taking a picture of a pool where children sometime swim because she might be achieving some sort of psychic sexual gratification from the imprint of the souls of all those children that have or will swim there. picked by bernardblack 4 months ago

Can anyone see the water? I think I spotted it for like a second. picked by 86Apex 1 year ago

KANAB, Utah - A ban on bikinis at the city pool is expected to be revised, ending a short-lived prohibition on the popular two-piece pool attire. But that does not mean that lifting the G-rating is going to lead to poolside G-strings picked by bevissimo 5 months ago

Residents with pools have woken up to find youngsters having a dip or have even come back from work to find their pool full of beer cans, police have said. picked by punthe 5 months ago