I don’t know about you, but this picture has just blown my mind. What we’re looking at here is an actual image which shows electrons orbiting around a molecule. Whoa.
Let me explain just what exactly is going on here. Pictured above is a…
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Category Archives: Science
This image of electrons orbiting around a molecule is incredible
Posted by admin on August 26, 2011
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This blinky light means your brain is about to forget something
Posted by admin on August 23, 2011
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It’s a bit of a mystery why sometimes we’re able to remember certain things and sometimes we’re not. Scientists may have just figured out how to tell whether or not a memory is likely to be good, based on a little tiny part of your brain that calms dow…
Scientists create chickens with alligator snouts, cackle madly
Posted by admin on August 19, 2011
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Chickens have a deep, dark secret locked away in their genes: they used to be dinosaurs. Researchers at Harvard University have figured out how to access these genes to send chickens back to to the Cretaceous era, giving them reptilian snouts like alli…
Smart plants grow satellite dishes to lure in bats
Posted by admin on July 28, 2011
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Plants, shockingly, have not evolved flowers and fruits to make our lives prettier and tastier. Instead, they’re engaged in hardcore competition to trick insects and animals into pollinating them and spreading their seeds. It should be no surprise, the…
Chinese physicists prove time travel is impossible
Posted by admin on July 26, 2011
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The hopes of going back in time and visiting the jurassic era to escape a T-Rex and warping into the future to save the world from Skynet will never happen. Chinese physicists have just proved that time traveling is out of the realm of possibility (at …
Scientists trying to put one thing in two places at the same time
Posted by admin on July 19, 2011
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Those greedy scientists, they just can’t learn to share. Instead of going out and getting two little glass spheres, they’re trying to use a trick of quantum mechanics to take one little glass sphere and make it exist in two places at the sa…
Canadians breeding unstoppable SUPER BEES
Posted by admin on July 14, 2011
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Bees have been having some trouble lately: they’re all dying off, and nobody’s really sure why. This is a big deal, a really big deal, and up in Canada, they’re breeding genetically enhanced super bees to try to fix everything. Nothing like this ever g…
Giant Scottish island appeared and vanished in a geologic blink
Posted by admin on July 12, 2011
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55 million years ago, a giant island burst out of the ocean off the northern coast of what is now Scotland. It existed quite happily for a million years or so, and then disappeared, only to be discovered again, now buried a mile beneath the ocean floor…
