For almost 20 years astrophysicists have been trying to recreate the formation of spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way realistically. Now astrophysicists from the University of Zurich present the world´s first realistic simulation of the formation of our home galaxy together with astronomers from the University of California at Santa Cruz. The new results […]
It’s been a big month for science-related news in many fields. From astronomists’* astronomers’ discovery of blinged-out planet to paleontologists’ fossils from just a blink after the Earth was formed, researchers have unleashed all kinds of awesome new info lately. Here’s a round-up of the biggest recent news and coolest finds: 1. This Ice World […]
How do you control an invasive species–especially a parasitic one–without having to physically remove every specimen from an area? It’s a good question, and a hard one to answer. The ramifications of controlling one animal almost always include serious decline in another, damage and contamination to a habitat and possible immunity in the case of […]
Can’t get a date, fellow geeks? Perhaps it’s your face. No, we not putting you down: it’s just that people are known to make snap judgments on whether other people are nice or mean, trustworthy or a crook, competent or inept in the first fraction of a second upon seeing their faces. Now, computer scientists […]
Vi Hart, mathemusician and the adorably geeky voice behind Squiggle Inception featured here recently, has a new video which discusses the science and mathematics of sound. Check out Vi Hart’s other videos (all worth a peek) on her YouTube channel. [Laughing Squid]
Just last week’s post about the Radioactive Orchestra, this video illustrates the concept of atomic radiation through sensory switch techniques–by exchanging light waves for sound waves, we can hear hydrogen. Produced by Henry Reich, this short animation is part of a series of animations that quickly explain a physics concept. We featured “Something from Nothing” here a couple […]
Our friends at the World Science Festival, who gave us those awesome geek jobs we talked about earlier this month, sent in their newest video from The Unbearable Lightness of Memory, an ongoing series which shines light on memory from a molecular, psychological, and emotional perspective. This particular video, “The Fiction in Our Identity”, discusses misattribution […]
Well, kind of. You probably know some of these (thanks, Alien!), but there’s interesting info between the points that are pretty obvious. (Clicking the image will take you to a slightly larger version.) [reddit]