I didn’t know that. I also checked out the source for that info and found out some other cool things about the demoted dwarf planet: – The name Pluto was originally suggested by an 11-year-old schoolgirl in Oxford, England. – No spacecraft has ever visited Pluto, though one is due to reach there in 2015. […]
It was a great day for science-loving geeks everywhere. Here are the day’s big stories, in no particular order: Amateur astronomers captured an enormous explosion on Jupiter Welcome to the age of armchair astrophysics. Two amateur stargazers independently reported a huge flash as something — either a small comet or asteroid — went crashing into […]
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 […]