Category Archives: Science



Awesome Bacteria Soap Will Keep You Nice and Clean

Byย Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] Valentine’s Day is over, but it’s never a bad idea to stock up on gift ideas for that geeky girl or guy in your life. ย I just discovered these while browsing Etsy and HAD to share them with the [GaS] community! These were crafted by Houston-based CleanerScience.ย ย As a microbiology […]

Beautiful: Life Looks for Life – The Sagan Series

I don’t know about you guys, but this video, along with the first one of the series, left me with tears streaming down my face and a sense that there’s something much more important then myself out there. It seems that Sagan has that effect on people. Thank you for everything Carl. Yeah, I know, […]



Simulated manned mission reaches “Mars”

A Russian and an Italian have climbed out of their craft and walked on the surface of Mars. But while the men know it is merely a sandpit near Moscow, their bodies might not be so sure. The pair are among six men in their 20s and 30s who are taking part in a global […]

WolframAlpha in Love

So after posting that “plotting love” shirt a few days ago, a bunch of you guys started creating various equations to improve on ThinkGeek’s heart-shaped design. Here are the results, as generated by the “humane” version of Skynet itself. plot x^2 + (y-(x^2)^(1/3))^2,x=-1..1,y=-1..1.5 polar plot 2 – 2 sin t + sin t sqrt (abs(cos […]

Bone puts the arch into archeology

We already knew that our direct ancestors were by no means a bunch of knuckle-draggers. Now fossil analysis suggests they walked permanently rather than swinging from trees. The findings come from a fossilised footbone from an Australopithecus afarensis, which was a hominid. That’s the family which eventually developed into humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and gibbons. The […]

Smartest Machine on Earth to Take on Jeopardy! Grand Champions

This week, an episode of NOVA covered Watson, the IBM supercomputer designed to interpret and understand natural human language, with all its ambiguity: wordplay, puns, double-meanings, intuitive differentiations and subtlety. Watson, named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, is the result of the DeepQA Project, the goal of which is to create a computer system […]

Can’t Touch This [Pic]

Yes, I totally posted this only because I thought the shirt looked clever and cool. That girl had absolutely nothing to do with it. ;) Oh, and for all our readers belonging to the fairer sex, I’ve commissioned Adrienne, one of our newest contributors, to write something exclusively for you gals, so wait for it […]