View of the OPERA detector in Gran Sasso, Italy. Neutrino beams from CERN in Switzerland are sent over 700km through the Earth’s crust to the laboratory in Italy. Image Source: http://public.web.cern.ch/public/
During experiments conducted during the last few months at CERN, otherwise known as the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Switzerland and an Italian laboratory, physicists have been studying tiny sub-atomic particles called neutrinos. continue reading...
Image Source: International Meteor Organization, Stardate.org/Andrew Barr, National Post
One of the northern hemisphere’s most prolific meteor showers is the Perseid meteor shower. continue reading...
Image Source: NASA/CNN
Early this morning, the final mission of NASA’s 30 year shuttle program began with the lift off the Atlantis space shuttle. continue reading...
1st Place 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition: Eyes of daddy longlegs. A frontal section of Phalangium opilio eyes. The lenses, retinas and optic nerves are visible. The image is a depth color-coded projection of a confocal image stack.
(Igor Siwanowicz, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Munich, Germany) continue reading...
Image Source: Reuters/Susana Vera
Using a laptop on your lap will not only warm up your scrotum, but it may also affect sperm count. continue reading...
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Right now, there are only about 3200 tigers left in the wild. continue reading...
It’s usually the case that you think of NASA as that group that wants to explore up, up, up and out there and such. But, as any bright person would understand, a massive part of the reason that they go up there is so that they can look down at us all judging, like concerned and such. continue reading...
First we were surprised to hear that the train going from San Fransisco to Los Angeles will be traveling 220MPH, but then Navigant Consulting announced that the bullet train can run with zero greenhouse gas emissions. continue reading...
While doing research for my next “How To” clip on composting methods, I found this website on vermi-composting. continue reading...
