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A budding young mad scientist who goes by the name of Rob built himself this handsome Tesla rifle. Rob turned a spark gap Tesla coil powered by an 18V drill battery into a scary-looking, gun-shaped lightning generator. Rob spared no expense, he cast a Nerf gun in aluminum and...
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It turns out that there is a fairly complicated scientific explanation behind the room-spinning effect that can kick in after a few too many drinks. The video below gives you a far better explanation than your author could manage and offers a useful scientifically-based tip for minimizing the nauseating...
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With the 70 liters of semen sitting on ice in the Cryos sperm bank and a massive queue of lining up to make donations, director Ole Schou can afford to be picky. He told the Ekstra Bladet newspaper that the bank would be more selective in choosing who could...
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This video shows a huge explosion on the Sun, estimated in size at be over a million km across. The light from the explosion was ultraviolet – invisible to the naked eye – but thanks to the miracles of modern technology it has been colored orange for our viewing...
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Men having trouble keeping it up might soon have another option to popping a pill. A British biotech company is working on a condom that will keep things stiff. Dubbed the “Viagra condom” there’s a gel inside that helps get the blood pumping. Inital tests report it works. There...
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A couple of weeks ago, filmmaker Terje Sorgjerd climbed his way up El Teide, the highest mountain in Spain, to take a week-long time-lapse video. His plan was to shoot the Milky Way, but a sand storm came in from the Sahara and shook things up a little. Things...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...