Awesome Science Stuff That Happened Today [Sep 11]

It was a great day for science-loving geeks everywhere. Here are the day’s big stories, in no particular order: Amateur astronomers captured an enormous explosion on Jupiter Welcome to the age of armchair astrophysics. Two amateur stargazers independently reported a huge flash as something — either a small comet or asteroid — went crashing into […]

Spreading Gamer Culture to Non-Gamers [Interview]

A few days ago, I noticed some photos posted on a friend’s wall on Facebook. Peng Tiong had managed to pull off hosting an enormous LAN gaming party at my old residential college, International House (IH). He got a number of people that would have never classified themselves as geeks (or nerds or whatever derivation […]

LED Lantern & USB Charger Powered by Salt Water

This is a pretty neat innovation coming out of Japan. Lack of electricity in disasters can make the situation worse than it already is. Green House Co. Ltd. has created a solution to that problem with a lantern, which generates electricity using nothing more than carbon, magnesium rods and salt water! In the ‘GH-LED10WBW’, 350ml […]

BECAUSE SPACE IS AWESOME: Massive Solar Eruption Caught on Camera! [Video]

On August 31, NASA captured on video a “long filament of solar material” that tore away from the sun’s atmosphere – or ‘corona’ – at over 900 miles per second! Editor’s note: We already had a post featuring the solar eruption a few days ago, but this video shows the eruption in much more details, […]

Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time [Inspector Spacetime]

The first episode of Inspector Spacetime that untitled web series about a space traveler who can also travel through time is finally here. We have to specify that this new series has absolutely NOTHING to do with Community and Doctor Who. Nothing at all. [sivartis]