These t-shirts are made of so much “Winning!” and “Awesome!” that I absolutely had to share them with you guys. Science! is dedicated to bringing you the finest in off kilter science t-shirts with a faux sarcastic nerd loving absurdist bent. Funny geek friendly graphic t-shirt designs by Jeremy Kalgreen and are available in a […]
Want to know how Nuclear Fission works? Check out this awesome demonstration some high school students did at the Horizon Science Academy in Cleveland. [Via]
In the following video, engineer Bill Hammack takes apart an LCD monitor and shows how it works. He explains how it uses liquid crystals, thin film transistors and polarizers to display information.
Employees at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, FL, assemble for an aerial photo outside Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building. Thousands of workers stood side-by-side to form an outline of a space shuttle, captured in the time-lapse video below. The event was organized in honor of the Space Shuttle Program’s 30-year legacy. [Youtube]
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Not as impressive as what Sony did in the streets of San Francisco a few years ago (see below, under the first video), but still pretty cool. After all, I’m sure these guys didn’t have the same kind of budget as Sony did! [Via TDW]
Fresh off the Apollo 11 Moon landing and aching to get some of those sweet avocado-colored refrigerators into space, NASA held a couple summer camps focused on designing space colonies. Artist’s renderings of some of the designs are truly spectacular–predating digital imaging, they’re all hand-painted works of Aquarian Age science fiction. The perspective in the […]
You think you know a thing and that you can wrap your mind around it, then someone (like the folks at Our Amazing Planet) lay an infographic on you. Mind = blown.
Picture source: David Hughes / National Geographic Get out your tiny shotguns and chainsaws–the ant zombie apocalypse is here! Of course, it’s been raging for 48 million years now, but you can never be too careful. Four new species of fungi that turn ants into little tiny extras from a George A. Romero movie have […]
In the following video, surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney.