A publisher is reprinting Norman Mailer’s articles on the Moon landings for LIFE magazine. The three-part feature was the longest nonfiction piece ever published in the magazine. But that’s not the best part. The articles are being reprinted in a collectible book along with excerpts from Mailer’s book “Of a Fire On The Moon” and […]
Have you ever wondered what you’d look like if you had a different racial background? How about seeing yourself as a different gender? And how will you look in your later years? Well, now you can find out thanks to a project by a British university. Staff at the Perception Laboratory, based in the University […]
This sequence is an excerpt from a 20 second X-Ray film showing a female subject pronouncing the swedish word “både”, meaning “both” in english. [Via]
Ok, we have a big forehead scratcher for you today dear readers… Why does Scotch tape make frosted glass transparent? [Via [H]]
Nasa has detailed how a hypothetical manned mission to Mars would work. But while that’s a dream, the agency is funding attempts to use private firms to cut the costs of space travel. The Mars mission is outlined in an interview with Imaginova (the firm behind Space.com) which has been syndicated to sites such as […]
People in parts of India, China, and Japan enjoyed the longest total solar eclipse of this century earlier today. Maximum totality duration was six minute and 39 seconds. Folks in parts of India got to see a totality sunrise, with the sun appearing as a black hole. Seconds before the Sun was fully blocked by […]
An amateur astronomer using a home-made backyard telescope has discovered an Earth-sized smudge in Jupiter’s surface. Anthony Wesley of Murrumbateman, Australia was viewing Jupiter at around 1am local time yesterday when he spotted the damage. He told SPACE.com that he saw a dark spot rotating near the planet’s south pole; his records showed the same […]
In case you’ve never seen one, a drinking bird is a toy that mimics the motion of a bird drinking from a glass of water. What makes this device so fantastic is that even though it has no apparent power source, it never stops moving, making people incorrectly think that somehow, it is a perpetual […]
In the following video, Daniel Kraft demos the Marrow Miner — a new device that quickly harvests life-saving bone marrow with minimal pain to the donor. He emphasizes that the adult stem cells found in bone marrow can be used to treat many terminal conditions, from Parkinson’s to heart disease.
As the 40th anniversary of the first moon landings draws nearer, space travel both past and present continues to make headlines. NASA has launched an official web page to commemorate the Apollo 11 flight. Highlights include a state by state map showing locations of lunar tie-ins, from the birthplaces of astronauts to the current homes […]