I chanced upon this article where the author is spouting the benefits of getting ‘chipped’. And that’s exactly as Skynet-like as it sounds. He says that to avoid a Wall-E existence for the human race, we must all get chipped and start monitoring our health using accurate data from within our bodies themselves. He himself admits […]
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Stanford academics have discovered an unlikely link between the Internet and the harvesting tactics of ants. Balaji Prabhakar and Deborah Gordon are Stanford professors of computer science and biology respectively. Gordon specialises in ants and recently figured out a pattern in the way ants collaborate together to gather food. She mentioned this to Prabhakar, who […]
Was it only me who used to sit on the beach as a kid and dig a hole, hoping to one day make a deep enough one to reach the other side of the Earth? Well the guys at minutephysics have contemplated the science of the situation, looking at what would happen if we were to dig […]
I know it’s not Saturday, but this is such a feat of biology I thought it was worth posting. This is Venus. This is not a photoshopped picture. She’s what they call a “chimera”, which according to Wikipedia (all hail Wikipedia) means that she “is composed of two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells that originated […]
Bill Nye basically crushes the creationist viewpoint without so much as an angry word. I would imagine that any hearts Bill Nye has broken were very much ok quickly after…isn’t he just one of the sweetest scientists around? He’s literally saying that creationism is completely false, without doing it in a way that would instantly […]
Physics achievement points if you get it. [Sent in from a friend, no idea where it’s from. Anyone know?]
This kinda puts the sizes of the different planets into perspective for you – Earth, Mars, Venus and Mercury all fit quite comfortably into Uranus. *giggle* Yes, I’m being immature. This didn’t quite blow my mind as much as someone showing me that all of Europe can fit inside Australia. [Source: Space Facts | Via […]
[Via Andrij “Andrew” Harasewych on Google+]
Another gem from ASAP Science, this one explores some weight loss tips and explains how and why they work! [Via ASAP Science]