Here’s a big discovery that was made using some very simple tools: The Milky Way is twice the size we thought it was We were tossing around ideas about the size of the Galaxy, and thought we had better check the standard numbers that everyone uses,” Professor Gaensler said. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and The […]
Lets pay a little game. Below you will find several headlines from the now-defunct Weekly World News. For those who never had the privilege of standing in a US grocery store checkout line during the 80′s or 90′s, let me explain that the WWN was a schlocky tabloid publication that eschewed the normal celebrity gossip […]
Zero-g Alka-Seltzer: Via GeekPess. UPDATE: Michael Darling seems to want to turn every posting on this blog into an episode of Tales of the Paranormal (see comments). I think what he’s missing out on, here, is that we don’t buy in to every crackpot theory that shows up in the blog comments section. We need […]
Zero-g Alka-Seltzer: Via GeekPess. UPDATE: Michael Darling seems to want to turn every posting on this blog into an episode of Tales of the Paranormal (see comments). I think what he’s missing out on, here, is that we don’t buy in to every crackpot theory that shows up in the blog comments section. We need […]
It isn’t just new species of insects and bacteria that are being discovered. Every once in a while we get something like this: New Species of Mammal A new species of mammal has been discovered in the mountains of Tanzania, scientists report. The bizarre-looking creature, dubbed Rhynochocyon udzungwensis, is a type of giant elephant shrew, […]
I have green eyes, while my parents and all my siblings have blue eyes. I always thought that my eye color was the same as theirs, just tinted slightly differently. But the way I read this story, that is simply not the case: ALL BLUE-eyed people can be traced back to one ancestor who lived […]