NASA has discovered a real life Tatooine: a planet that orbits two different suns. But there’s unlikely to be anyone there who can save the universe. The planet currently has the rather humdrum working name of Kepler-16b. That’s Kepler after the observatory-fitted spacecraft that’s on a three-year plus tour of part of the Milky Way, with […]
Why fire is red, gas flames are blue, why you’re too cool to glow, and why fire moves in an upward, dancing manner. [Youtube]
As always, science has giving us plenty of awesomeness in the last week. Here are a few of the biggest stories rounded up for your reading pleasure. Glowing Cats Shed Light on AIDS It’s hard to decide whether a kitten amped up on fluorescent jellyfish protein is cute or freaky, but before you try to […]
Most of our stories at GeeksAreSexy concentrate on technology, but we also touch on science. And today we have a tale that involves biology, chemistry and physics. The biology involves a Swedish elk. That’s an animal that, while known as an elk in Europe, is called a moose in North America. The animal’s species name […]
Learn how new infections emerge, spread through human contact and change the world. [Contagion: Are you Ready?]
The only reason I’m posting this is to show you guys how people drink water while in a state of weightlessness. There’s absolutely no other reason apart from my will to educate you, dear readers. Yes, yes, I know… I’m such a good and well-intentioned person, no need to thank me.
Three years ago, the nine-year-old son of palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger found an intriguing fossil in a collapsed Malapa cave — the collarbone of a 2 million year-old hominin previously unknown to science. Further searches of the same site revealed 220 more bones of the same species, from infants to adults, with two particularly complete young adults […]