Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you’ll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. In the following video presentation, she reveals dozens of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular results.
This optical illusion contains 4 perfectly round circles. Can you see them all… at once?
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] Much of the time, when I discuss science with non-science people, I get the impression that genetics is a double-edged sword for them. While most understand that genes contain the “blueprint” for the organism that carries them, and that heredity somehow factors into that, the DNA (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid) molecule and […]
Let’s go old school geeky for a moment. Did you have a bug collection when you were a kid? I did, briefly for a class project, but then decided that I’d rather see them alive and flying around than pinned to a board. Of course, who needs a board when you’ve got a camera? With […]
It’s not a secret, we all know that a good part of the world has problems with its drinking water sources, bringing death and sickness every day upon third-world countries. Sure, humanitarian organizations try to help these countries, but doing so is expensive. So when looking at the situation, Engineer Michael Pritchard thought he needed […]
Even though the middle of this square appears to bulge out, this picture is exclusively composed of squares. Don’t believe me? Just put a ruler on top of your screen and verify the fact for yourself.
Over the next week we’ll be bringing you ten of the most desirable geek possessions. Some are as cheap as a few bucks, some cost tens of thousands of dollars, and some are one-offs which aren’t for sale. But every one of them should have you thinking “I want one of those!” Gyroscopic pool table […]
In the following video, you’ll see how pistol shrimps use their claws in a surprising way to incapacitate preys and predators alike.
Have you ever seen someone dump his hands in a tub of liquid nitrogen and quickly pull it off without having it frozen in the process? Yes, this is possible, thanks to what is called “the Leidenfrost Effect.” The Leidenfrost effect is a natural phenomenon in which a liquid, (in this case liquid nitrogen), contacts […]
An amazing video about the Hubble Deep Field, ending with a flythrough of its representation in 3D, rendered using the measured redshift of the picture. Even though the camera seems to be slowly drifting among the galaxies, it belies the fact that the viewpoint is hurtling through the universe at a speed of around 200 […]