We often discuss alien life existing in far away galaxies. Astronomers have used the Hubble space telescope in a variety of ways and methods to find extraterrestrial life in very distant places. Perhaps the best area to look is within our own galaxy: The building blocks to create another Earth are found at solar systems across our…
Finally Buckyballs Have Been Found In Space!
NASA has detected this unusual molecular phenomenon called a buckyball. Many of us have seen the magnetic and metallic game sets with the similar name: The Spitzer Space Telescope has located some elusive carbon molecules floating in space. Called “Buckyballs,” due to their resemblance to architect Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, these three-dimensional, spherical structures are…
Cool Video On The “Invisible Universe”
Using the Hubble space telescope we have been able to view formations that were previously impossible to detect: Twenty-five years ago, NASA launched one of the most ambitious experiments in the history of astronomy: the Hubble Space Telescope. In honor of Hubble’s landmark anniversary, NOVA tells the remarkable story of the telescope that forever changed…
NASA Is Working On This Healing Device…Seriously!
Star Trek fans and people of the world rejoice! Apparently, what was once science fiction is closer to science reality: NASA and Houston-based company GRoK Technologies will work on the development of new “breakthrough products,” noninvasive medical technologies designed to “regenerate bone and muscle tissues.” It really sounds like something out of Star Trek, but…
Lasers + Liquid Nitrogen = Awesomeness
Here is a cool experiment by the well known laser dude styropyro! This experiment works by utilizing liquid nitrogen to cool the semiconductor to -196ºC, robbing it of much of its thermal energy. This causes the “bandgap” energy to increase, thereby increasing the emitted photon energy and decreasing the emission wavelength. Oodles of liquid nitrogen…
Record Breaking Flare From Black Hole
Black holes can shoot out jets of energy and they may have detected a record breaking amount: On June 14, record-breaking high energy light was detected by sensors on NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. This event was caused by a disturbance, 5 billion years ago, near 3C 279’s supermassive black hole and it’s just reaching…
Who Or What Made These Huge Blocks of Stone?
In Baalbek, Lebanon there are some big blocks of stone. Absolutely enormous. Who or what made these? The narrator mentions that many archaeologists think the Romans were responsible. However, he points out that he thinks the Romans built on top of these stones, but lacked the technology to make such blocks! He also seems to…
New Horizon Makes Its Closest Fly By To Pluto Today July 14
Clearer pics of the mysterious planet at the edge of our solar system have been taken and sent back to earth! The shape on the surface looks like a heart wow. Here is more about the news happening today July 14: The New Horizons spacecraft has made its closest approach to Pluto – and by tonight,…
Big Bang Evidence Is Examined…But What Came Before The Big Bang?
This video debates and presents some interesting evidence about gravitational waves, which have implications about a possible big bang. The question always comes up though, what created the big bang and what came before it, and before it etc.? BICEP2 has recently uncovered direct evidence for gravitational waves. What are gravitational waves and why is…
Incredible Discovery on Easter Island
Heiroglyphics have been studied by Egyptologists, archaeologists and debated strongly as to their origins and meanings. Now there is a discovery on Easter Island that will surely add to the mystery and excitement of these ancient languages: Everything you thought you knew is about to be proven false. The Easter Island heads are actually more…
3D Printing With Precision Of One Atom
The 3D printing revolution has taken the world by storm. This may be the biggest technological breakthrough as an industry since the internet. And now things may be progressing further: John Bashonger has tipped us off to a possible precursor for an “atomic precision” 3D printhead where the interaction of tailored light with a single…
Is There Life on Pluto?
The first pics from the New Horizon mission are starting to come in and they are showing some unexpected formations. The closest fly by is happening tomorrow: New Horizons conducts humanity’s very first reconnaissance of Pluto and its moons. The closest approach for New Horizons is set for Tuesday, July 14th at 11:49 UT/7:49 AM…
Our Solar System From An Alien’s View
We have all seen models of our solar system, and with the new pics from Pluto sent by the New Horizon, even more detail of the planets themselves. What would our solar system look like from an alien point of view though? From NASA Astrophysics… a supercomputer simulation shows how alien astronomers might have seen…
A Real Life Sharkcano?
Ok some of us may have heard of or even seen the gag movie Sharknado where a tornado of sharks threatens the world. Seriously. Now scientists have discovered sharks living in a very unusual habitit: A real life sharkcano? Ocean engineer Brennan Phillips led a team to the remote Solomon Islands in search of hydrothermal…
This Black Hole Is Absolutely Enormous
Everyone does know that black holes are the super large matter and light eaters at the center of galaxies (or at least that’s what many think they are). This recent spotting of a certain black hole is so big, astronomers are having to change their theories and equations regarding what they think they know to…
NASA May Want To Put Robots On The Moon
Is this a good idea? NASA wants to potentially not just put a robot or robots on the moon but actually “terraforming” part of the surface: Located on the moon’s South Pole, Shackleton Crater isn’t just prime real estate for terraforming experiments, it’s Optimus Prime real estate. NASA wants to fill the crater with solar-powered…
Is This The First Image Of An Alien Friendly Planet?
wait…WHAT? This video examines the spotting of an “alien planet”. That doesn’t mean they have seen aliens, it implies that it could be habitable by life forms (at least by our limited understanding of biology). It is from ESA’s Hubblecast and it is incredible that they are able to share pictures that were previously unattainable!…
What’s The Smallest Thing In The Universe?
Many videos cover the largest distances that we can even imagine measured in light years! However this one examines: the smallest unit of measurement in the Universe, the Planck Length. What is Planck Length? Is this just a subatomic particle, theory or something else? Here is a wikipedia excerpt about Max Planck: Planck made many contributions…
New Invisibility Cloak Breakthrough
Movies such as Predator have long shown off in science fiction fashion (no pun intended) the concept of an invisibility cloak. Not only have they made a prototype in Japan recently but there may be advancements in the technology: Now, researchers at Boston University and Tufts University claim that they have come up with an…
The Power of Helium!
This has to be one of the funniest and clever uses of science and physics in a marketing technique ever: In a wild and potentially deadly stunt reminiscent of the flying balloon house in Pixar’s UP, a Canadian man has been arrested for taking to the skies in a self-designed balloon chair. Daniel Boria, 26, of…
