Astronomers are hoping a recently discovered planet is on a rare suicidal orbit around its parent star. If it isn’t, the entire basis on which they make calculations about orbits may have to be rewritten. WASP-18b is around 325 light years away from Earth: though that’s 1,885 trillion miles, it effectively makes it a close […]
A South Korean scientist who faked the production of a human embryo from cloned material is facing four years in jail over the incident. Hwang Woo-Suk has been charged with embezzlement and with accepting funds under false pretences. That relates to the US $2.25 million he received from public funds to carry out the studies. […]
In the following video, deceased (1988) American physicist Richard Feynman amuses himself with an old puzzle – why do mirrors seem to switch left and right, but not top and bottom?
In the following video, Dr. Michio Kaku talks about the multiverse and parallel universes. If you liked the clip featured in our “Visualizing the Big Band” post, then you’ll definitely want to watch this one as well.
We made this video about the Big Bang because the theory is important and amazing, but often misunderstood. This video was produced without any funding from any outside sources. It was put together with donated creative time from a group with a desire to further public cognition of science. Science has many amazing stories to […]
Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you’ll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. In the following video presentation, she reveals dozens of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular results.
This optical illusion contains 4 perfectly round circles. Can you see them all… at once?
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] Much of the time, when I discuss science with non-science people, I get the impression that genetics is a double-edged sword for them. While most understand that genes contain the “blueprint” for the organism that carries them, and that heredity somehow factors into that, the DNA (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid) molecule and […]
Let’s go old school geeky for a moment. Did you have a bug collection when you were a kid? I did, briefly for a class project, but then decided that I’d rather see them alive and flying around than pinned to a board. Of course, who needs a board when you’ve got a camera? With […]
It’s not a secret, we all know that a good part of the world has problems with its drinking water sources, bringing death and sickness every day upon third-world countries. Sure, humanitarian organizations try to help these countries, but doing so is expensive. So when looking at the situation, Engineer Michael Pritchard thought he needed […]