When drawing up legislation or regulations covering recreational drugs, it’s important to get advice from scientists. Until this week, I’d have considered that a statement of fact. It turns out it’s merely an opinion, and one not shared by the British government. A proposed new law in the country would remove an existing requirement for […]
…and that’s one of the things that makes me REALLY glad to be a Canadian… along with our awesome health system. ;) [Via Reddit]
NASA recently created this Universe tour using images from the Hubble Space Telescope and other sources, placing each of them in 3D space in relation to our viewing point. Check it out!
By Sterling “Chip” Camden Contributing Writer, [GAS] While manipulating the French Revolution for his own ends and conquering Europe in his spare time, Napoleon Bonaparte was first and foremost a geek at heart. He was passionate about science and math. Napoleon remembered his early school days like many of us: “every one said of me: […]
British engineers are exploring the possibility of a real-life sonic screwdriver. Bruce Drinkwater, professor of ultrasonics at Bristol University, doesn’t expect to make a working model particularly soon. But he’s working on at least proving the concept is possible. The idea is to build on existing work using ultrasonic forcefields to separate out diseased cells […]
In the quest to map the brain, many scientists have attempted the incredibly daunting task of recording the activity of each neuron. Gero Miesenboeck works backward — manipulating specific neurons to figure out exactly what they do, through a series of stunning experiments that reengineer the way fruit flies perceive light.
Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before – using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of ‘The Joy of Stats’ he tells […]
For this experiment, you’ll need a little bit of dish soap, some food coloring, and milk. That’s it! Now, you too can make your milk “come alive.”