Every year, there are millions and millions of random facts and statistics gathered by researchers, scientists, and analysts. These numbers are often times too large to interpret and the shear magnitude of the numbers can be overwhelming. Here are 20 figures scaled down to 60 seconds in order to grasp how wild some of these […]
Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, S. James Gates, Jr., and Freeman Dyson discusses science, human knowledge and the unknown.
In a wonderful quirk of coincidence December 31st, 2009 is not just New Year’s Eve. It’s not just the end of a decade. It’s also a night of a blue moon… in partial eclipse. A blue moon occurs when there are 13 full moons during a calendar year rather than 12. This is the result […]
Physicist Steven Cowley is certain that nuclear fusion is the only truly sustainable solution to the fuel crisis. In the following video presentation, he explains why fusion will work — and details the projects that he and many others have devoted their lives to, working against the clock to create a new source of energy.
Today, IBM unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years: Cities will have healthier immune systems. City buildings will sense and respond like living organisms. Cars and city buses will run on empty. Smarter […]
It appears as if the field of science and technology is the next great battleground for the games console war. Following creative uses for the Xbox 360 and PS3, two scientists have developed new ways to use the Wii’s controller. Hydrologist Willem Luxemburg and physicist Rolf Hut, both from the Dutch university Delft, showed off […]
We’ve posted similar videos a few times here on Geeks are Sexy, but nothing as cool or as awesome as this one. The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film […]
Today, for our science videos of the day, we have 3 short clips that will help you visualize what it would be like to see a fourth dimension, if such a thing could be possible. The first features one of our favorite modern scientist, American astronomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan, and the second, a disembodied, […]
The robot courses across the battlefield, swiveling on sleek steel legs, turning its bullet-shaped head toward its prey. Its eyes flash red, then blue: signal received. Before the ensuing sound boom and the inevitable end of hundreds of lives, it pauses a moment to reflect. Death is never easy, even with a heart of circuits. […]
Ferrofluid is an assemblage of magnetic particles engineered at the nanoscale, 100 times smaller than the wavelength of visible light. Although too small to be imaged with microscopes, nano-products harness surprising properties from nanoscale physics for use in the macroscale world.