• Melting gallium spoon trick provides expensive (but reusable) scientific entertainment

    Gallium does not exist elementally in nature, it has to be made. Part of the reason why you cannot just dig the stuff out of the ground is that it has an extremely low melting point (~86°F, 30°C). A hot sunny day reduce a piece of the stuff into...
  • Can food court trays have more bacteria than gas station toilets?

    Following up on our article from a few weeks ago, when we all learned to wash our hands after using the ATM, we’ve now discovered, that food court trays may have more bacteria than gas station toilets. Yum! According to Bob Hancock’s work, after swabbing the food court trays,...
  • Sun Shoots Out Massive Solar Flare

    NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the largest solar flare released by the sun in four years. Called an X-Flare it’s the strongest types and can disrupt communications and electrical power grids on Earth. This is because solar flares aren’t only burst of energy. They’re also a magnetic pulse...
  • Man Victim of Huge “Alien” Tumor, Lives to Tell the Tale

    A California man is lucky to be alive after doctors found a huge, cancerous tumor with tentacles growing inside him last year. The tumor, which looks like the pods from the sci-fi film “Alien,” was the size of a soccer ball and doctors estimate it was growing inside of...
  • New planet discovered orbiting the sun!

    Scientists believe they’ve found evidence of a 10th 9th planet orbiting our sun. This new planet is supposedly 4 times the size of Jupiter and should be in orbit, 15000 times farther out than the Earth. While there are no actual photos of it yet, NASA claims that the...
  • Airport Scanners to be Less Intrusive

    The highly controversial full body scanners being used at US airports are getting ready to take a more modest view of things. Instead of displaying pictures of people in full naked detail more generic images are being used and red blocks appear over areas where there is a perceived...
  • The Moon is shrinking!

    The Moon; Humans will always be fascinated by it. Cavemen likely looked up at it and wondered if they could unhook it from the sky. We’ve written books about it, poems were recited, Duran Duran wrote a song about it being new, on a Monday. We’ve had paintings, documentaries, men...
  • Water propelled jet-pack coming in March!

    So, like most men,  you’re going through your midlife crisis, and you’re looking at a sports-bike, a mistress or maybe an Ariel Atom. The problem with all that is that if you’re like me, a middle aged man with less and less hair and more and more belly, you’d...
  • IKEA stores designed to confuse customers out of their money

    Wonder why you buy so much at IKEA? It's because they get you lost in the store, so says architect professor Alan Penn. ...