Have you ever wondered what the best spot is in your microwave to heat your food more effectively? If this is the case, listen to the following video from Smarter Every Day and you’ll never have to wonder again! [Via TDWG]
Researchers at a Massachusetts hospital have manipulated a living cell to produce a laser light. That could pave the way to exploiting the fact that such a technique could produce continuously refreshed light. The breakthrough came from Malte Gather and Seok Hyuan who work at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Wellman Center for Photomedicine. They built their […]
As usual, Neil deGrasse Tyson delivers a very concise and informative speech on why we need to train future generations in science and math, even though most of the people who are part of those generations will never become scientists.
Good morning, Geeks. Please take your seats. Today we’ll discuss the science behind solar flares and the distinction between a flare and coronal mass ejections. By now you’ve all seen the images and video from Tuesday’s M2.5 flare and CME. What you may not have gotten is a look at what solar flares actually are […]
Biology was comparatively boring by the time I got there, but if you were in high school sometime in the 70s, maybe you’ve seen this. The only way I can even begin to explain this is with a conspiracy theory: Jim Morrison took a season off from touring with the Doors to teach Bio II. […]
Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He’s found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he’s taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits — including teeth, tails, and even […]
In the following video, Bill Hammock, the Engineer Guy, explains everything there is to know about a hard drive by tearing one apart to show us the role of each of its components. This is by far the best explanation I’ve heard on how hard drives work. Check it out:
An intimate tour of Earth’s most impressive landscapes… as captured by astronauts with their digital cameras. Dr. Justin Wilkinson from NASA’s astronaut team describes the special places that spacemen focus on whenever they get a moment. [Via]