While we look forward to things calming down here on Earth, there’s going to be plenty of activity in the heavens. Ars Technica put together an overview of the plans that include everything from innovative rockets to private flights to the construction of a new space station. And three different nations have spacecraft scheduled to […]
Watch as Kathrine Frey Frøslie explains the epidemic r-number through crocheting, showing how fast Covid can spread through a population. Kathrine Frey Frøslie works as associate professor in Biostatistics, and runs the popular science knitting blog Statistrikk.no. The crochet work is made for the exhibition CoviDesign at Greve museum in Denmark, 2020/2021. [Statistrikk | Via […]
Are you ready to have your mind blown? Watch the amazing rotating window illustion below! Ames window illusion illustrates how we don’t directly perceive external reality. [Veritasium]
From medieval knights to face shields, humans are pretty big fans of armor. But it turns out that other organisms use armor, too! Except sometimes, their armor doesn’t look like anything we’d expect. [SciShow]
Scientists, diving inside data that NASA’s iconic Voyager 2 spacecraft gathered during its historic 1986 encounter with Uranus have just found that the atmosphere of the icy planet is leaking gas out into space. Watch the video and learn what’s really happening there. [Cosmoknowledge]
There’s a lot of excitement right now around the record-speed vaccines for COVID19, some of which are already starting distribution in parts of the world. But given that these are mRNA vaccines – a relatively new technology that has not been widely used before – we wanted to explain how they work, and what happens […]
“A planet near you” is relative, of course, as 300 million miles is still quite a journey. NASA’s Perseverance rover launched in July, and is scheduled to land in the Jezero Crater on Mars on February 18. The landing will be covered live, and to drum up enthusiasm, NASA released a “trailer” for the landing, […]
Bioluminescent beaches are not something you see in many parts of the world, but if you ever do, you’ll remember for the rest of your life. This bioluminescence is cause by an algae called Noctiluca scintillans, also commonly known as the sea sparkle. From Wikipedia: Noctiluca scintillans, commonly known as the sea sparkle, and also […]
The desire to be free from the limits of the human experience is as old as our first stories. We exist in an endless universe, only bound by the laws of physics and yet, our consciousness is trapped in mortal machines made of meat. With the breathtaking explosion of innovation and progress, for the first […]
Your mortal enemy has captured you and hooked you up to a bizarre experiment. He’s extended your nervous system with one very long neuron to a target about 70 meters away. At some point, he’s going to fire an arrow. If you can then think a thought to the target before the arrow hits it, […]