Let’s continue our look back at some of the news stories we’ve covered here at GaS in 2016 as well as following up on later developments. In March the Department of Defense launched a challenge for “white hat hackers” to try to breach their computer systems. Sensibly enough it was limited to approved US participants […]
With the feasts and festivities of the holidays in full swing, we’ll be kissing the passing year goodbye, but not without the addition of a couple extra pounds as a souvenir. Lucky for you, the winter also brings something that might actually help you lose that 2015 souvenir of yours: freezing cold weather. Today we’re […]
My pal Coma Niddy is back from the dead, and today, he teaches us all about Dobsonian telescopes in his latest song: Look at My Dob! A Dobsonian telescope is an altazimuth-mounted Newtonian telescope design popularized by John Dobson starting in the 1960s and credited with vastly increasing the size of telescopes available to amateur […]
Don’t you just love Destin Sandlin? That guy is one of the rare Youtubers that will actually go on site to show you things you’ll never learn anywhere else. Check him out in the latest episode of “Smarter Every Day” as he mines Opal in the Australian outback with a 77-year-old man that has been […]
Please note that the following film features rarely seen and newly restored footage of humanity’s last journey to the moon. On December 7, 1972, NASA launched Apollo 17, a lunar mission crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt. It would be the last time humans traveled beyond low Earth orbit, the last time […]
Swiss researchers have taken inspiration from nature by designing a drone whose wings have artificial feathers. The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne’s drone mirrors the way a bird not only has feathers but can fold its wings. The idea is to make the drone more versatile and increase overall performance. The big difference is that […]
For decades scientists believed that monkeys could not speak human language due to an anatomical difference in vocal tracts. Today, we’re not so sure that this is the limiting factor after all. [SciShow]
From Mark Rober: Jake from Vsauce3 and I test scenes from Home Alone, Elf and A Christmas Story using only the Scientific Method… and some cow eyes. And here’s the other video from VSauce3: [Mark Rober]
Here is some footage of a meat pie being launched into space at the World Pie Eating Championships in Wigan Greater Manchester, England.) We are aware that scientists have been experimenting with plants on the International Space Station to see if their molecular structure changes, so we are experimenting with pies to see if the […]
Happy Holidays! Here are your favorite carols with a science twist! [ASAP Science]