Every fifth-grade science student learns about the rings on a tree, and how they visually demonstrate the tree’s annual growth. While this knowledge might be the height of most people’s interest in dendrochronology, the science of dating trees by their rings, Austrian artist Bartholomäus Traubeck offers a striking new way to interpret growth rings: through…
Forget your Youtubes of dogs and cats that sometimes sound like they’re people, elephants can talk and sometimes, they’re talking about us! And not necessarily in the good way. Elephants Have A Word For Humans  When people think of the way that animals communicate, we usually boil it down to body language and a few…
Uhm…what? New York Times Short Shows Versatility Of Ants The New York Times has produced an awesome short about ants, more specifically, the ability of a large amount to both flow like a liquid and become a solid ball. It’s pretty disgusting but also amazing! Check out the GIF demonstrating their abilities above. On the…
Bill Nye was the gentleman lucky enough to be tasked with engaging Gen Y in science. Bill Nye the Science Guy used quick cuts and silly gags to foster a love of science in young people starting in the mid-nineties. As a result, children everywhere irritated grown-ups by constantly correcting them. Bill has recently returned…
A London building has melted a car. Sure, science is saying ‘something, something, concave design something something light rays’. But I say- EVIL BUILDING GETS IT’S REVENGE! Tower Melts Jag The ‘Walkie Talkie’ building in London has obviously always wanted to be mobile and has taken out it’s resentment for it’s current state of immovability,…
Science has finally taken a step forward in the area of mind control! In the first ever human brain-brain communication, University of Washington scientists Rajesh Rao and Andrea Stocco combined powers to play a simple computer game. All they had to do was shoot down the target with Rao being able to see the screen…
Google’s Sergey Brin as apparently financed production of the first hamburger ever grown in a lab. For the first time in the history of the world, instead of the burger being cut from the hind of a cow, it was grown in a controlled environment by Dutch University. Lab Grown Burger to Revolutionize Food Industry?…
The twin-starred Star Wars planet defies astronomical classification Star Wars fans will be pleased to hear that the fictional planet of Tatooine, notable for having two suns, is more real that they may have thought; thanks to a discovery made by a group of astronomers working in France. The discovery in question comes in the…
Clay Minerals in Martian Rock Show an Ancient Mars Capable of Hosting Life The Mars Curiosity rover’s mission to find evidence of a once habitable environment on the surface of our neighboring planet has taken one giant leap in the right direction. A recent press release by NASA describes how data obtained from the analysis…