It was a great day for science-loving geeks everywhere. Here are the day’s big announcements, in no particular order: The Higgs boson enters the annals of legitimate science The checks and balances system of scientific inquiry and discovery involves one important step, the one that so-called documented alien sightings and faith-healing can’t seem to pass: […]
DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME! Matt Inman from The Oatmeal tested out his new Tesla cannon on my flesh and science got done. Yes, the current is lighting the bulb. And yes, it hurt. [Via IHC]
It was a good day for science-loving geeks everywhere. Today’s big science haps, in no particular order: A new look at DNA says there’s no such thing as junk in the trunk [image] Assuming you call the human genome “the trunk.” ENCODE – the Encyclopedia Of DNA Elements – is a project that starts where […]
Artist Yiying Lu just sent me this really cool QR-enabled Periodic table of the Elements she recently created, which she is offering in PDF format for free on her website. A smart kid with a smart phone and our new Periodic Table can learn the fundamentals of chemistry. My design includes 131 embedded QR links […]
Imagine a world where learning the language of computers was a fundamental subject in our education alongside mathematics, languages and sciences. If you think about it, that is actually the world we live in today: programming pervades almost every profession out there to some extent or another, and having a basic understanding of how software […]
It was a good day for science-loving geeks everywhere. Here are the day’s big announcements, from neuroscience to plasma physics. Physicists teleport quantum data 143km between Canary Islands [image] Just a few months ago, researchers in China set a new distance record for transferring quantum (or light) data at 97 kilometers. That record didn’t hold […]
Do you know what would happen if everyone on Earth would jump up and down at the exact same time? No? Then watch this video to find out! [VSauce]
People think windmills are ugly (I disagree though – I think they’re quite neat) and that photovoltaic dual-axis solar panels, while efficient, aren’t really any prettier. Well André Broessel from Barcelona has united sleek architecture with intelligent scientific design as an answer to the ‘ugliness’ of renewable energy devices with the “ß torics” system. This spherical […]
A thousand British ants are now sporting radios on their backs. It’s part of a project to track how the group forms its own social and informational network. The Longshaw Estate in Derbyshire is run by the National Trust and is home to around 50 million northern hairy wood ants. Despite that number the species […]
We’ve already shown you a video of the science behind a falling slinky and some quick slow motion footage to go along with it, but the Slow Mo guys show us how it’s done in extreme slow motion. Check it out! [The Slow Mo Guys]