By Derek Clark Contributing Writer, [GAS] BZZZT! That was the sound I heard just before yelping like a little schoolgirl and grabbing my earlobe in pain. The next sound was the giggle of my five-year-old son. “This is my death ray, daddy!” he said, pointing his little index finger with the thumb still cocked at […]
The Joy of Stats is an hour long documentary that will take you through the wonderful world of statistics. Yes, I know that the idea of spending an hour watching this will turn quite a few of you down, but since the documentary is presented by superstar boffin Professor Hans Rosling, whose eye-opening and funny […]
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American physicist Richard Feynman on the Likelihood of Flying Saucers.
Some examples of the numerous life forms living on our body made visible by scanning electron microscopes.
The planet’s population is hurtling towards 7 billion. But its growth will start to slow.
A group of British elementary school pupils, some aged just eight, have become the youngest science writers to have a paper accepted by a peer reviewed journal. They discovered that bumblebees are able to use a combination of color and spatial patterns to recognize flowers that will provide nourishment. The project was organized by University […]
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