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The Physics of Fluid, Revealed In Spellbinding Color

Switzerland-based photographer Fabian Oefner has a knack for exploring the intersection of science and art. In his latest work, he pours a variety of colored paints over a rod connected to a power...

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How Your Movements Create a GPS ‘Fingerprint’

Can you be identified only by where you take your phone? Yes, according to a new study, which finds it’s not very hard at all. While most of us are free to go wherever we want, our daily and weekly...

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Web Slows Under ‘Biggest Attack Ever’

Millions of people around the world have been affected by slow internet speeds after an unprecedented attack. A Dutch web-hosting company caused disruption and the global slowdown of the internet,...

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Bitcoin to Come to Cash-Strapped Cyprus via ATM

The surge in interest has exploded the overall value of the Bitcoin economy. As the Cypriot financial crisis continues, some are seeing a new opportunity for the popular Internet crypto-currency...

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The BBC on Bitcoins

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Astronomers Discover New Kind of Supernova

Supernovae were always thought to occur in two main varieties. But a team of astronomers including Carnegie’s Wendy Freedman, Mark Phillips and Eric Persson is reporting the discovery of a new type of...

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Watch this Magnetic Silly Putty Devour a Rare-Earth Magnet

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Wasting Booze: Laser Igniting Alcohol-Filled Bottles

This is a video from Scott Stevenson of a powerful burning laser igniting the alcohol fumes in a series of glass bottles (previously: laser popping balloons and igniting a firecracker inside a...

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Skepticism and Reason Trump Paranoia: Claim – FEMA Ordered 102,000 Boxcars...

My Two Cents: This story (or stories) are posted as they appear in their entirety on a post from Xenophilia. All has been kept in tact as it was posted over there so people can understand the full...

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Help Raise Money for This Kickass NASA Video to Appear Before ‘Star Trek Into...

When you go to see Star Trek Into Darkness in May, you’ll be watching a lot of trailers for action movies and summer tentpoles. But what if you could be watching a video that shows the dream that...

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WikiLeaks Set to Unveil ‘Project K’

The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks could be set to release another batch of classified government information, it was suggested today. The group announced the start of a new project on Twitter,...

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No Worries: Our Galaxy Might be Surrounded by 2,000 Rogue Black Holes

Galaxies and their central supermassive black holes grew in tandem, the result of countless collisions and mergers between ancient, smaller galaxies. But galaxies sometimes merged without combining...

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