breathingearth.net is a fascinating real time display of the birth rate, death rate and carbon dioxide emissions for countries all over the world. It’s mesmerizing to watch and interesting to compare the stats for various nations.
e.g. In Greenland, 1 person is born on average every 9.8 hours compared with 1 every 1.3 seconds in […]
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The Japan Origami Plane Association together with the University of Tokyo have plans to fly a paper airplane from the International Space Station to Earth. The group have developed and tested a prototype which has withstood temperatures of around 300 degrees, simulating the conditions expected during reentry into the atmosphere at over 24,000 km/h.
The group […]
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A German research published in New England Journal of Medicine and Weekly World News said that men staring at women’s breasts in fact prolong their lives with years.
“Just 10 minutes of staring at the charms of a well-endowed female such as Baywatch actress Pamela Lee is equivalent to a 30-minute aerobics work-out,” said author Dr. […]
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If you happen to be reasonably close to one of the Earth’s magnetic poles, the next time there’s a particularly intense aurora, go outside. Get as far as you can from sources of noise – traffic, barking dogs, TVs – and listen. Listen carefully.
If conditions are right, you may hear some unusual noises. Earwitnesses have […]
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The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has captured some impressive high definition footage of our nearest neighbor. The images were taken on October 31 by the KAGUYA spacecraft.
The image shooting was carried out by the onboard high definition television (HDTV) of the KAGUYA, and it is the world’s first high definition image data acquisition of […]
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Hack together a speaker out of stuff you have laying around. It’s crude but it works and it is an interesting little experiment/project.
A speaker is just a magnet, a coil, frame and a cone or any material that can make the air vibrate. Here is the bill of materials that I used to build this […]
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What would happen to the world if all the humans disappeared? Journalist Alan Weisman provides a fascinating insight into such a scenario in his new book “The World Without Us”.
It’s actually quite amazing how fast nature reclaims the earth and eradicates all traces of human existence, check out the website for a quick summary of […]
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A new moon has been discovered orbiting Saturn, which brings the number of satellites known to be spinning around the ringed giant to an impressive 60. The discovery was made by the Cassini Imaging Team studying images taken by the Cassini spacecraft back in May this year.
The moon has not been officially named as yet […]
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Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer space telescope have detected water vapour in the atmosphere of extrasolar planet HD 189733b. The planet is far from being habitable though with an average temperature of about 1000 degrees Kelvin, however the discovery has led scientists to believe that water is more common out there in the Universe than was […]
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The Bradshaw Foundation have a fantastic animation which depicts the migration of humans over the past 160,000 years.
It is the result of work by scientist Stephen Oppenheimer and is based on mitochondrial DNA, Y chromosome evidence, archaeology, climatology, and fossil study and tracks the routes and timing of our migration out of Africa and around […]
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It may or may not be the answer to life, the Universe and everything, but coincidentally 42 is the mass of our galaxy, 3 x 10 to the power of 42 kilograms to be more precise.
The mass of the Milky Way Galaxy was determined by an international team of scientists and presented this week at […]
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