CHS’ BACON (Best All-around Club Of Nerds) builds a giant pool of oobleck, a non-Newtonian fluid created by mixing cornstarch and water, and then runs across it. Support our trip to CERN at www.indiegogo.com/BACONATCERN [CHSBacon]
A musical celebration of the wonders of biology, including evolution, natural selection, DNA, and more. Featuring David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins and Bill Nye. “The Greatest Show on Earth” is the 13th video in the Symphony of Science music videos series. Materials used in this video are from: Richard Dawkins’ “There is grandeur in this view […]
A viewer of the UK’s Stargazing Live show has helped discover a planet. Chris Holmes didn’t notice the planet on his TV set (high definition only goes so far) but rather at Planethunters.org, a site that asks volunteers to search through imagery from the Kepler telescope operated by NASA. Holmes was inspired to check out […]
Following recent news reports about problems with a certain type of breast implant, here’s a video discussing the use of silicone in medical implants from a scientific point of view. Please note that this video contains no nudity at all. [Periodic Videos]
The International Telecommunication Union will decide this week not only whether there’ll be an extra leap second in June, but whether it will be the last of its kind. The decision could mean that we no longer take any notice of the Sun when it comes to determining time. As we’ve previously covered, the leap […]
Iapetus, one of Saturn’s over 60 moons, has two faces. One side is bright white, almost like snow, yet the other half is a dark black. No one really knows what the dark stuff is. However: Close inspection indicates that the dark coating typically faces the moon’s equator and is less than a meter thick. […]
After 34 years in space, NASA’s Voyager probes will soon cross the boundary of our solar system into interstellar space. [TimeMagazine]
I guess I’m on a black hole kick this weekend. There’s so much fascinating stuff happening with this particular field of science. The newest update is that scientist want to take a picture of a black hole. How are they going to do this? By turning Earth into a telescope, of course: …The team is […]