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Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking 13-part series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is getting a sequel with the venerable astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson at the helm.
That is truly awesome news—and Neil deGrasse Tyson is the perfect person to take over for Sagan. So who do we have to thank for all this?
Seth MacFarlane. Yeah, Family Guy Seth MacFarlane. He will be a producer on the new series along with Sagan’s widow Ann Druyan and his colleague Steven Soter.
Physicists at the Hong Kong University of Technology and Science crushed the dreams of millions of nerds when they published a study claiming that time travel is impossible.
The belief was that if a single photon could exceed the speed of light, time travel was within the realm of what is physically possible. However, Shengwang Du and his team measured the ultimate speed of a single photon and found that it cannot achieve these speeds.
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Nanoscientists at the University of Nottingham’s Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre were able to etch the entire periodic table onto a single human hair using focused ion beams. The result was the complete table, including all known actinides and lanthanides, that was so small that it could have been written on post-it note well over a million times with room to spare.
Check out the process on CubicleBot, where you can also watch them engrave “Merry Christmas” on a snowflake.
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Cheerleader nerds. Amazingly enough, they actually exist. Check out the video after the break to see the Science Cheerleaders in action.
Maybe there’s hope that one day, a group of hot cheerleaders will root for you as you troubleshoot network problems at the office. Sniff…never give up hope.
Remember when everyone was freaked out that the scientists at CERN would end the world by using the The Large Hadron Collider housed there?
Well, it turned out the scientists there have successfully created a “mini-Big Bang” and, while they generated “dense fireballs that have temperatures of about 10 trillion °C.”, we’re all still here.
While all the other stupid kids are using regular building blocks with letters, your little genius is already playing at a Ph.D level with these Periodic Table Building Blocks.
Nevermind that he’s slobbering all over them. That’s just a testament to his enthusiasm for science.
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Which deadly bacteria do you want to lather all over your body today… Salmonella? E Coli? Cleaner Science offers you a bevy of choices with a series of soaps designed to look like bacterial culture in a petri dish. Some even glow in the dark! Check out additional photos after the break.
Although 12 of the 26 letters of the alphabet don’t have atomic symbols, the periodic table alphabet makes it possible for your budding nerd to spell his name on the wall with each letter of the alphabet at his disposal. The designers even found a place for the unassigned freak letters J, Q & W by making up elements, so needless to say, this set is not a fully accurate representation of the periodic table. You’ll want your little genius to know that before he does a science report on “Jennerium”.
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Memories of high school biology class when you had to dissect frogs may not be on your top 10 list of teen good times, but it is a memory you should keep anyway. Hang up one of these plush wall art frogs who happens to be in the middle of that procedure and wait for the memories to flood back.
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If you know someone who is suddenly very interested in looking at tiny things, be sure to check out their microscope. There are some that are used for activities other than expanding their knowledge of science. Smoke rising from the top may be a good clue.
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