Blog Posts on science news

NASA’s Deep-Space Command Central by Geek Picks on Feb 10, 2012Through technology, we've developed the ability to reach out into the distant corners of the universe. Rovers, orbiters, and deep-space probes. But regardless of how far away from us they extend, they all reach from a single point of origin: Earth.vi...

Hangout With the Scientists Looking for the God Particle by Geek Picks on Feb 9, 2012Want to hang out with the people who run the CMS? No, not the content management system. The Compact Muon Solenoid. It's one of the two big detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest and highest-energy particle accelerator in the world...

Edible Super Insulating Foam by Geek Picks on Feb 5, 2012...

What happened before the Big Bang? by Geek Picks on Feb 2, 2012We spend a lot of time thinking about futurism, but the past is pretty interesting, too. In this week's "Ask a Physicist" we get extra speculative and think about what things may have been like before the beginning of time. What was there before the...

NASA Remembers Its Fallen by Geek Picks on Jan 26, 2012This time of the year has a poignant place in the hearts of all of those who work in or love the space program. It is an unfortunate cluster of dates that represent the anniversary of the three events that cost us the lives of astronauts in their veh...

Russian scientist claims to have discovered life on Venus by Geek Picks on Jan 23, 2012Leonid Ksanfomaliti, an astronomer at Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, claims to have detected signs of life in 30-year-old photographs of Venus. Of course, that's completely ludicrous... isn't it via io9...

What Happened Before the Big Bang? by Geek Picks on Jan 22, 2012There’s a great interview with philosopher of physics Tim Maudlin of NYU over at The Atlantic. Maudlin and his ilk are interested in proving Stephen Hawking’s notion that “philosophy is dead” wrong. (Dead wrong…get it? Play me off!) They...

Creative People Are More Likely to Cheat by Sarahness on Jan 9, 2012According to a study published by the American Psychological Association creative people are more likely to cheat than less creative people, possibly because this talent increases their ability to rationalize their actions.

NASA Debunks 2012 Apocalypse With New FAQ by Geek Picks on Jan 3, 2012We all know that the world is going to end in December 2012 because a giant solar eruption is going to swallow the Earth. Or is it supposed to be the implosion of the Yellowstone Caldera? Reversal of the global poles? Does anybody even care about how...

Quantum Levitating Toy Racecar Track by Geek Picks on Jan 3, 2012...