Tag: science
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Teacher’s Science Experiment Reveals the Importance of Washing Your Hands In a Disgusting Experiment
Teaching children to love science can be difficult. Getting kids to wash their hands can be even more so. Well, Tennessee-based teacher Courtney Lee Simpson has managed to do both for her class in one foul, really gross swoop. In a post that's gone viral on Facebook, Simpson showed off a neat experiment she did…
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Teacher in Ghana Teaches Students How To Use The Computer Program Microsoft Word Entirely on a Chalkboard
You might be surprised to learn that not everyone has the luxury of being taught to use a computer at school. For example, earlier this year, Ghana teacher Owura Kwadwo Hottish went completely viral when images of him teaching his students how to use a computer… without a computer actually being around. Owura teaches Information…
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Do Some Dogs Look The Same As Their Owners? We Put It To The Photographic and Scientific Test
You know what they say about owners looking like their dogs? Dog lover and photographer Gerrard Gethings put this theory to the test with his recent series called “doggelgängers”. You might be surprised to learn that the idea that a bonded dog and their human share a resemblance has been tested from a scientific perspective.…
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Meet David Hahn – The 17 Year Old Boy Scout Who Built A Nuclear Reactor In His Mom’s Backyard 20 Years Ago That Made The Neighborhood Radioactive
In 1994, in a shed next to his mother’s house, a 17-year-old David Charles Hahn (1976-2016) made a nuclear reactor from batteries, old clocks, lanterns, uranium from Czechoslovakia and duct tape. The story attracted media attention and David was named the ‘Radioactive Boy Scout.’ Scroll down to read the full incredible story of David Hahn, which…
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An Illustrated Periodic Table Helps Show You How Elements Are Part of Everyday Life
If you struggled through Science Class like we did, one of your biggest problems was understanding the periodic table. Created to give an order to chemical elements according to their atomic number, chemical properties, and electron configurations, the scheme has been in use since the mid-1800s. And now, the table has gotten an update to…
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MicroSculpture Macro Photography Of Insects Composed of 10,000 Images by Levon Biss
Levon Biss captures extremely detailed macro photographs of a range of insects for his series Microsculpture. He uses a 36 megapixel Nikon D810, and each image is made up of around 8-10,000 individual photographs, using a 10x microscope objective attached via a 200mm prime lens, and the images are then stacked together to form one…
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Artists Creates Coral and Bacteria Installations Using Cut Paper
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Artist Rogan Brown plays with the architecture of nature and organic growth. By identifying patterns and motifs that occur in the natural world in different contexts and at different scales, both macroscopic and microscopic, he has developed a formal, aesthetic vocabulary that he uses to construct hybrid sculptural forms, both real and surreal. In his…
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Man Deliberately Drops 200 Wallets Across America To See How Honest We Are
Former NASA scientist and real-world social experiment commentator Mark Rober recently lost his wallet. If you’ve lost your wallet or purse before you know how much of a pain it is to replace everything. As a result of this experience, Mark wanted to know how honest Americans were. He then conducted a controlled wallet dropping experiment. The…
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Translucent Ants Photographed Eating Colored Liquids!
Scientist Mohamed Babu from Mysore, India captured beautiful photos of these translucent ants eating a specially colored liquid sugar. Some of the ants would even move between the food resulting in new color combinations in their stomachs. Check out the stunning results below! And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of original art…
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25% of People Have a 4th Cone and Can See Colors as They Really Are
Given the sudden interest in the color of dresses and vision (see HERE to find out if that dress was white and gold or blue and black!), we thought we’d share with you some fascinating findings that Prof. Diana Derval made recently. The color nuances we see depend on the number and distribution of cones (=color receptors) in our…