Apollo Surface Panoramas houses the photographic panoramas taken by the Apollo astronauts while hanging out on the Moon. The imagess are stitched together from individual 70mm Hasselblad frames, which you can also find in the Lunar and Planetary Institute’s online catalog. To explore the 32-megapixel images, just use the pan and zoom controls at the […]
“Placebos: pretty freakin’ weird.” That just about sums it up. Created by: Daniel Keogh – http://www.twitter.com/ProfessorFunk Luke Harris – http://www.lukeharrisgraphics.com [sciencecenter]
If you’ve ever dreamed of staying up late chatting with NASA astronomers while watching the Perseids streak across the sky, tonight might be the best of your life. And even if you aren’t all OMGNASA, you can still catch a glimpse of the meteor shower if you’re in the right place (and the moon doesn’t […]
Add TrES-2b to the list of strange exoplanets discovered in recent years. The newly discovered supergiant gas giant is so black only 1% of light it receives is reflected. That’s darker than coal or black paint or closing your eyes and covering them with your hand. It’s blacker than anything found on Earth, even the […]
Three men who were suffering from advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) are now healthy and cancer-free, thanks to a pair of clinical studies for a promising new gene therapy. The results, announced Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine and Science Translational Medicine, have medical researchers in thrall: “I’m getting goosebumps,” says University of Pennsylvania pathologist Michael Kalos, lead author of one […]
Livejournal user quaint_idea made these cupcakes for his last ever physics lesson. Check out the black hole cupcake below as it devours a small star. Poor little thing. [Source | Via]
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo asks, “Why are boys struggling?” He shares some stats (lower graduation rates, greater worries about intimacy and relationships) and suggests a few reasons — and he asks for your help! Watch his talk, then take his short 10-question survey. [Youtube]
Pluto and moons, pretty much at scale.* It’s been a big year for our tiniest former planet. Last month, Pluto’s new moon, tentatively called P4, made news (and lame jokes about Disney characters), and now astronomers are predicting that Pluto also has a faint ring. Ringed planets aren’t especially uncommon, as it turns out. We […]
Check out what happens when you drop a neodymium magnet down a copper pipe. The movement of the magnet induces an electric current in the copper and with electric current comes a magnetic field, which makes the magnet attracted to it. The magnet doesn’t stick to the wall as it falls because the induced current, […]
There are plenty of theories that suggest abused children are more likely to carry out abuse themselves when they grow up. Now it appears that pattern may exist in non-human species. Researchers from Wake Forest University in North Carolina made the discovery while studying Nazca boobies, a bird found on islands in the Pacific ocean […]