The world is definitely catching on at how sexy us geeks are. Science is the future; we’re the ones who are going to build the robot that’s going to kick your robot’s ass. It’s time for the spotlight to swivel over to the scientists who are changing the world, and are going to change the […]
Why do we explore? Simply put, it is part of who we are, and it is something we have done throughout our history. In NASA’s new video, “We Are the Explorers,” we take a look at that tradition of reaching for things just beyond our grasp and how it is helping us lay the foundation […]
Hey, today is February 29th! As it happens every 4 years, February has an extra day this year. But do you know why? Here’s a video explaining the concept of the Leap Year for those of you who need a little reminder. [CGP Grey]
Creating the Board of Awesomeness was a labor of love for the Labs team, but we were blown away by how much you loved it as well. So well that it went everywhere — and eventually needed to be rebuilt. Well, the labs team hates to waste an opportunity to make anything better, so we […]
Photo Credit: Jason Major Scientists and geeks all over the world salivate at the thought of extra-terrestrial life. Within our solar system, Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, provided the most likely candidate since it has stable bodies of surface liquid. Unfortunately, our tremendous efforts to find out if there may be Titanites that we […]
By R. S. Guest Blogger Share It’s safe to say that we now live in a geek’s world. One only has to look at the way gadgets and the Internet dominate every aspect of modern existence. Geeks are essential to the normal functioning of billions of lives daily. Without them, civilization as we know it […]
Photo Credit: Café psicologico We have known for a long time, based on studies of twins, that intelligence is a heritable trait. Recently, in the last few years, we’ve developed the technology that allows us to examine specific genes and we thought we had identified a gene that was linked to human intelligence. The tests […]
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language.She conceptualized the idea of machine-independent […]