Well, the crack didn’t really just appear in space; it’s an image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope from several years ago. It was notable at the time for looking like a snake slithering across the Milky Way, but the crack is actually a “core of a thick, sooty cloud large enough to swallow dozens of […]
In the following video, Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson debunks the 2012 myth, explaining exactly why the various end of the world scenarios that can be found on the net don’t hold up science-wise.
The FIFA football World Cup begins this Friday: but don’t worry soccer-haters, this isn’t an article about the game itself. Instead, we’ll be taking a look at attempts to predict the outcome using facts and figures. Most people, let’s be honest, predict the results through a combination of guesswork and gut instinct. While there’s a […]
A wind-powered car has reached a top speed of 38.61 miles per hour (62 kilometers per hour). By itself that might not sound impressive, but it appears to answer a long-running physics question: can a wind powered vehicle travel downwind at a speed faster than said wind. The main argument against such a possibility is […]
“The Case for Mars” is the sixth installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. The clip features Robert Zubrin, Carl Sagan, Brian Cox, and Penelope Boston. Samples come from the documentary “The Mars Underground”, Cosmos, and Wonders of the Solar System. Enjoy! [Via Gizmodo]
NASA has an awesome section of their site called “Astronomy Picture of the Day” where they… well… post an astronomy picture every day (Duh!) A few days ago, they posted a shot of Thor’s helmet, an helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Check it out: Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor’s Helmet is […]
Flyfire, a project initiated by the SENSEable City Laboratory in collaboration with ARES Lab (Aerospace Robotics and Embedded Systems Laboratory) aims to transform any ordinary space into a highly immersive and interactive display environment. To do so, they put a few hundred LED-equiped toy-like helicopters in the air, and use them to create some fantastic […]
Did you know that the belief that people only use 10% of their brains is a myth? Or that a brain has 100,000 miles worth of blood vessels, and over 100 billion neurons? Hit the jump for other interesting facts about the the organ that makes us, human beings, so special.