As winter settles in, many of us are getting an up-close look at more snowflakes than we might care to. Let’s take a moment to look at just what forces are shaping (literally) our winter weather. Read more…
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How snowflakes get their shape
As earth’s population surges, mankind faces an increasingly limited supply of fresh water. Thankfully, Australian scientists report this week that they’ve found vast new fresh water supplies. Unfortunately, it’s in one of earth’s least accessible places: under the ocean floor . Read more…
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Researchers Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Under Ocean Floors
Scary. Insane. Ridiculous. Invasive. Wrong. The Washington Post reports that the FBI has had the ability to secretly activate a computer’s camera “without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording” for years now. What in the hell is going on? What kind of world do we live in? Read more…
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FBI can secretly turn on laptop cameras without the indicator light
The Dark Crystal has always been Jim Henson’s creepiest movie, but when it was finally released it was considerably toned down from his and Frank Oz’s original vision. YouTube user scoodidabop has spent years re-editing the film, using Henson’s original notes and various deleted scenes to create a far, far creepier movie than what you remember. Read more…
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This fan-edit of The Dark Crystal is creepier than you can imagine
Back in May, our friend and ex-NASA JPL engineer Mark Rober , figured out a way to shoot “bullet time” videos on the cheap , with a ceiling fan, a pair of flashlights, and a GoPro. Pretty damn creative, but the rig had its limitations. So Mark set out to find a way to create a similar set-up, this time using a high-end Phantom camera. Thank goodness. Read more…
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NASA Engineers Built an Insanely Complex Bullet-Time Rig For Fun
Those Mexican thieves that stole a truckload of coblat-60 ? They’re virtually sure to die, according to experts. Read more…
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Those Mexican Cobalt-60 Thieves Will Die of Radiation Exposure
By creating highly detailed connectome maps of nearly 1, 000 men, women, boys, and girls, neuroscientists have shown the dramatic extent to which male and female brains are “wired” differently — cognitive variations that may help to explain why men and women fare better at certain tasks. Read more…
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The Dramatic Differences in Male and Female Brain Connectivity
In May 1972 in a uranium enrichment plant in France, scientists examining ore from a mine in Gabon, West Africa, discovered that a natural nuclear reactor had spontaneously manifested in that region in the Earth’s primordial past, churning out approximately 100 Kw worth of energy continuously for a few hundred thousand years about 1.7 billion years ago. In order to understand how the natural nuclear reactor came about, it helps to understand a little of the history and science of nuclear reactions. Read more…
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There’s a Naturally Occurring Nuclear Fission Reactor in West Africa
Usually, you knock back pills packed with drugs; cocktails of chemicals which have been painstakingly proven to help make you better. Soon, though, you might be swallowing tablets filled with something you might not expect: bacteria. Read more…
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How a Pill Filled With Bacteria Could Actually Make You Better
There may well be more than 60 billion habitable planets littering the Milky Way, but it’s virtually impossible to make use of that figure. Instead, how about this picture , which shows you how many planets are within 60 light-years of Earth. Read more…
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All the Habitable Planets Within 60 Light-Years of Earth, Visualized