Here’s yet another mousetrap fission video for you guys to enjoy :) What it shows: In a nuclear reactor or atom bomb, a fissile material such as 235U can capture a neutron. The resulting unstable nucleus fragments into two smaller nuclei, releasing energy and several neutrons (a typical equation is given below). Each of these […]
We try our best to bring you the latest news at Geeks Are Sexy, but unfortunately the image above is a little out of date. To be specific, it’s somewhere between 10 and 12 billion years out of date. The image is a two-dimensional close-up section of what is being billed as the largest three-dimensional […]
After watching the video below, be sure to hit this link to listen to the sound of jelly wobbling, as recorded for the first time back in 2008. [Via]
Researchers from the University of Nottingham have come up with an idea which would allow to build “super” hard drives using a uranium compound. Check it out: [Via [H]]
Recently, Jorge Cham from Phdcomics.com sat down with Physicists Daniel Whiteson and Jonathan Feng to talk about Dark Matter and how Cern’s collider is helping answer the question: What is it? Check out the cool video he then created to go along with the recording. [Phdcomics]
And in even more medical sensor news, researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a low-cost method of detecting bacterial infection using an artificial nose. To sniff out the particular strain of bacterium, a broad-sensitivity array is attached to the underside of a Petri dish lid and a sample of the patient’s blood is […]
The most awesome geek e-mail signoff message of all time, courtesy of Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson.)
Do you have acute pancreatitis? Do you think you might but don’t have hours and hundreds of dollars to spend at the doctor waiting to find out? Well look under those couch cushions and roll some pennies, because you can build a sensor for under one dollar. Even better? It takes an hour or less […]
This is a rant about the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. But it is not a rant about the wedding itself. Nor is it a rant about the hype surrounding the event. Instead it is a rant about a particularly ludicrous element of the hype that offends me as a rationally thinking geek. […]
Science mimics nature once again as developers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) work out a new water-collecting device based on the Namib Desert Beetle (Stenocara gracilipes), which collects condensation from coastal fog on the bumpy surface of its back. It then tips its back and lets the water roll down into its mouth, an […]