Category: SCI/TECH

April 19, 2017 at 11:04 am

NASA Releases Amazing New Photos of the World at Night

NASA Releases Amazing New Photos of the World at Night

NASA scientists have released new global maps of Earth at night, providing the clearest-yet views of the patterns of human settlements across our planet

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April 11, 2017 at 9:43 am

Google Earth Timelapse Lets You Explore the Globe and Watch It Change Over a 32 Year Span

Google Earth Timelapse Lets You Explore the Globe and Watch It Change Over a 32 Year Span

Google Timelapse is a global, zoomable video that lets you see how the Earth has changed over the past 32 years

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April 3, 2017 at 2:17 pm

Reddit ‘Place’ Gives a Fascinating Glimpse Into Internet Culture and Community

Reddit 'Place' Gives a Fascinating Glimpse Into Internet Culture and Community

What started as an April Fools’ joke has taken on a life of its own

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March 30, 2017 at 3:57 pm

A Visual Guide to Vantablack, the Darkest Substance Ever Made

A Visual Guide to Vantablack, the Darkest Substance Ever Made

Vantablack is not a paint, pigment or fabric, but rather a ‘forest’ of billions and billions of carbon nanotubes

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March 26, 2017 at 9:43 am

Boaty McBoatface Just Set Off On Its Antarctic Adventure

Boaty McBoatface Just Set Off On Its Antarctic Adventure

Last year the UK gov launched an online contest for the public to name its new polar research ship. Boaty McBoatface won in a landslide but

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March 15, 2017 at 3:22 pm

These BMW Designers Made a Hover Bike Out of LEGO and Turned It Into a Life-Size Replica

These BMW Designers Made a Hover Bike Out of LEGO and Turned It Into a Life-Size Replica

It all started when LEGO and BMW teamed up to release a replica LEGO version of the BMW R 1200 GS Adventure motorcycle..

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March 14, 2017 at 5:42 pm

Picture of the Day: Piercing Aurora

Picture of the Day: Piercing Aurora

A NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket soars skyward into an aurora over Alaska following a 5:14 a.m. EST, Feb. 22, 2017 launch from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska

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February 27, 2017 at 5:54 pm

In 1885 Wilson Bentley Took the First Ever Photographs of Snowflakes (23 Photos)

In 1885 Wilson Bentley Took the First Ever Photographs of Snowflakes (23 Photos)

He believed no two snowflakes were the same

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January 26, 2017 at 1:05 pm

Picture of the Day: Blue Marble, 2017

Picture of the Day: Blue Marble, 2017

“That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.” – Carl Sagan

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January 25, 2017 at 2:32 pm

In 1977 Jimmy Carter Put This Note on the Voyager Spacecraft

In 1977 Jimmy Carter Put This Note on the Voyager Spacecraft

It remains the only letter in history to reach extrasolar space

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