It’s true. I lasted approximately 48 hours before we ended up with another dog after our pooch of 8 years was tragically hit and killed by a car. But I am a dog person, and I’d like to think that it’s in my DNA. After all, dogs may be one of the most fascinating creatures […]
Tell your spouse that you want to coat the walls in your own urine and faeces and he or she will likely walk out of the room in disgust. But take up a multimillionaire’s offer and that won’t be possible — because you’ll be in space. It’s all part of a proposal by Dennis Tito, […]
When you rub the balloon on a coarse surface, you give the balloon additional electrons, generating a negative static charge. Meanwhile, the match, delicately balancing inside of the cup, has a neutral charge. When an object has a negative charge, it will repel the electrons of other objects and attract that object’s protons. When the […]
An experiment in oscillation.. currently on in The Science Gallery in Dublin. Check it out. [Robert Ross | Via UD]
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If someone told you that they could balance a full-size text book on a piece of paper, you might call up the looney bin. That’s a crazy idea, right? Well, the notion that a book can sit, precariously, atop a plain piece of paper isn’t quite as bonkers as you might think! The secret to […]
Did you know that silver has antimicrobial abilities? The same silver that is in jewelry can kill germs, fungus and bacteria. Some scientists have developed nano-silver which is even more effective at blasting away germs. Learn all about here at Coma Niddy University! [Source: Coma Niddy]
Professor Neil Shubin talks about the discovery of Tiktaalik and one of the greatest evolutionary events in Earth’s history: when the very first fish ventured out onto land. [Source: TheRoyalInstitution | Via IHC]
Eruptive events on the sun can be wildly different. Some come just with a solar flare, some with an additional ejection of solar material called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and some with complex moving structures in association with changes in magnetic field lines that loop up into the sun’s atmosphere, the corona. On July […]
Listen as Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson explains what can be done to protect Earth from an impact with a giant killer asteroid. [Via IHC]