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If you find yourself walking in the Tatra mountains in Poland, don’t be afraid if you see a dark, ghostly presence hovering above you in the sky. The phenomenon is called Brocken spectre, and it occurs when “the shadow of the observer is cast on the clouds.” [Book of...
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The famous duck-rabbit (or is it rabbit-duck) image has been turned into a sculpture that has precisely the same visual effect in 3D. The original duck-rabbit (shown below), created by American psychologist Joseph Jastrow, is an ambiguous image that he used to illustrate differences in perception – way back...
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When New Scientist featured an interesting picture of a rainbow on the Moon, perhaps they thought that people would care. They didn’t, you see the Moon rainbow was actually an optical artifact that was produced by their arrangement of cameras and filters. It was a rainbow on a photograph...
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Circular milling is a strange phenomenon wherein army ants follow each other around in circles again and again until they become exhausted and die – en masse. From the Ant Room: This is one of my favorite things about ants — the ant death spiral. Actually, it’s a circular...
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Apparently, the worst thing about going to space is what happens to your fingernails. A recent study of the injuries suffered by astronauts found that at least 22 had experienced fingernail delamination (fingernail loss). While 22 separate cases might not sound like a lot, when you consider how many...
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A new piece of malicious software doing the rounds on file sharing networks packs a nasty surprise. Kenzero Trojan, which come by way of Japan, gathers information about porn browsing habits (including browser history, favorites, illegally-downloaded porn, and clipboard content) and then uploads said information to a public website...
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An infographic from Newsweek provides terrifying food for thought about the reality of life for Chile’s trapped miners. Imagine if everything that you needed to survive for the next two to three months had to be less than 3.19 inches in diameter. Imagine spending a quarter of a year...
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A 15-year-old Swiss boy burned two holes in his retina trying to create a laser show with his newly purchased green laser pointer. The boy had originally purchased the laser pointer for the usual reasons: …to use as a toy for popping balloons from a distance and burning holes...
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A group of Facebookers show that a poor grasp of the English language and frightening lack of scientific knowledge can make for hilarious results. Unless you consider the possibility that the multitudinous offspring of those involved will probably be lowering the intelligence quotient of the planet by a point...
An infographic from Newsweek provides terrifying food for thought about the reality of life for Chile’s trapped miners. Imagine if everything that you needed to survive for the next two to three months had to be less than 3.19 inches in diameter. Imagine spending a quarter of a year...