What you’re about to see, which starts at 1:20 in the video and lasts for only 60 seconds, took 2 years, 96 layers and 15 tracks to create. Since this video is in HD, I strongly suggest that you put the player in full screen mode before hitting the play button. Enjoy! [Via Reddit]
Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner wants to do something dead crazy next summer: He wants to break Joseph Kittinger’s free falling record, jumping from an altitude of 120,000 feet up in the air. As you can expect, doing this isn’t exactly what we could call “safe”, so Baumgartner will need a special suit, giving him life [...]
If you’ve ever heard somebody scream “I can’t do two things at once”, you’re wrong… but only just. French scientists now believe the brain has the capacity to work on two tasks at once, but that it can’t cope with more than two. That’s because the limited multitasking which people can carry out is based [...]
I’m willing to argue that gardening is one of the first geeky hobbies. I mean, before the advent of television and video games, botanists and hobbyists alike have been categorizing seeds and experimenting with the plant world for time out of mind. There’s just something really captivating about the combination of science and aesthetics—not to [...]
While cartoonist The Oatmeal very graphically showed us just exactly how an Octopus is more awesome than your Mom, National Geographic shows us how a Sea Lion can totally own an Octopus, even dragging it to the surface to tear it into bit sized pieces. If an Octopus is more awesome than your mom, and [...]
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] By now, everyone and their mother has heard of nanotechnology and how it is either going to save us or obliterate us in a sea of gray goo. What exactly IS it, though? Well like microbiology, the field is too vast to describe effectively beyond “things happening on [...]
Rotifers: Tiny animals that survive against all odds, known for not having sex for around 80 million years. In the following video, award-winning Cambridge researcher Alan Tunnacliffe drains 90% of the water in their microscopic bodies, heat some of them to the boiling point and then freezes them in liquid nitrogen, to later observe that [...]
This picture shows what hydrogen atoms might look like if we could see them. The chart above shows the appearance of a single hydrogen atom in a few of its lowest excited states. In each of those states, the electron is found in a different orbital, some of which have unfamiliar shapes. But even the [...]
During a presentation given at the University at Buffalo, a student asked renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson for his thoughts on U.S. federal cutbacks to NASA funding. while you may or may not be American, I think Tyson’s answer should be (as always) heard by everyone and gives new insights on what can happen if [...]
Here’s a detailed but easy to understand video on how the large hydrogen collider works. Enjoy!
I remember all the news about Biosphere, back in the early 90s when I was in elementary school. There was something so hopeful about it, so pioneering and unusual. We followed the stories of the people inside, and talked about self-sustaining ecosystems on the moon or planets not yet discovered. For a budding sci-fi geek, [...]
If you think your morals are immutable, think again. It turns out nothing more complicated than a set of magnetic pulses could impair moral judgments. Researchers at the Massachussets Institute of Technology have identified the so-called moral compass as being a section of the brain known as the right temporo-parietal junction, located just behind the [...]