Category Archives: Science

Visualizing Light in Motion at a Trillion Frames Per Second [Video]

You’ve all seen those awesome videos where people capture items in motion at 1,000’s of frames per second, right? You think that’s impressive? Well, it sure is, but compared to this new camera from the folks at MIT, it really isn’t. Check it out. We have built an imaging solution that allows us to visualize […]



Google Launches YouTube for Schools [Video]

YouTube for Schools lets schools access free educational YouTube videos while limiting access to other YouTube content. Students can learn from more than 400,000 educational videos, from well-known organizations like Stanford, PBS and TED, and from up-and-coming YouTube partners with millions of views, like Khan Academy, Steve Spangler Science and numberphile. Schools can also customize […]

The Pyro Board: Fire + Sound Waves = Awesomeness [Video]

I’m pretty sure you’ve all seen this trick done with corn starch or salt, but I’ve never heard of anyone doing it with fire! Be sure to watch this one till the end, the best part starts around the middle of the video. Sound waves are transmitted through a flammable gas creating alternating high and […]



The CERN Announcement, In Brief [Science!]

ATLAS Collision Events All of the following images represent the same event. In some theories, microscopic black holes may be produced in particle collisions that occur when very-high-energy cosmic rays hit particles in our atmosphere. These microscopic-black-holes would decay into ordinary particles in a tiny fraction of a second and would be very difficult to observe in our atmosphere. The ATLAS Experiment offers the exciting possibility to study them in the lab (if they exist). The simulated collision event shown is viewed along the beampipe. The event is one in which a microscopic-black-hole was produced in the collision of two protons (not shown). The microscopic-black-hole decayed immediately into many particles. The colors of the tracks show different types of particles emerging from the collision (at the center).

Today, a much-awaited live press conference from CERN announced a glimpse of the elusive Higgs boson. The two teams working on isolating the so-called God Particle have isolated the mass region to a narrow location about 15 GeV wide, somewhere between 116-130 GeV in the ATLAS sector’s experiments and between 115 and 127 GeV in […]

Eyes on the Sky Tonight: 2011 Geminid Meteor Shower

It’s that time again, Geeks. Bundle up and head outdoors tonight between 10PM local time and sunrise Wednesday morning to catch the incoming Geminid meteors. The map above should give you a good idea of where to look; if you’re feeling especially Citizen Sciencey, check out the just-released, free Meteor Counter app for iPad and iPhone. […]

How to Defend Earth from Asteroids [Video]

What’s six miles wide and can end civilization in an instant? An asteroid — and there are lots of them out there. With humor and great visuals, Phil Plait enthralls the TEDxBoulder audience with all the ways asteroids can kill, and what we must do to avoid them. [Youtube]

The single best thing you can do for your health [Video]

A Doctor-Professor answers the old question “What is the single best thing we can do for our health” in a completely new way. [DocMikeEvans]

Cloaked Spaceship Spotted Near Mercury [Video]

During a large coronal mass ejection from the sun last week, NASA’s STEREO spacecraft spotted a mysterious planet-sized object orbiting Mercury. Check it out Head NRL group scientist Russ Howard and lead ground systems engineer Nathan Rich say the mysterious object is in fact Mercury itself. And what we’re seeing in the footage is the […]