Science

Is This The Trippiest Image Ever Taken In Space?

This image made at the International Space Station is not your usual ISS image. No firing auroras. No gleaming cities. No fuming catastrophes or crispy deserts or psychedelic rivers or turquoise seas. It looks as if the ISS were about to jump into hyperspace.


May 11, 2012
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What Is This Trippy Burst Of Light?

This is not a screensaver. Nor is it what happens if something goes wrong at the LHC, or the result of too much LSD. In fact, it’s what happens if you have an over-active imagination and go out light paining with a remote control helicopter.


May 9, 2012
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Weather Woman’s Clothes Disappear On Live TV

Hello Jessica Starr, weather woman of FOX Detroit, you don’t seem to be wearing any clothes. In fact, you look invisible! Is this meteorologist sorcery? A camera trick? A fashion faux pas? A bit of everything actually.


May 8, 2012
Science

Seeing A Deflated Supermoon Shrinks My Brain

That round mirror in the sky we call the moon got supersized this past weekend, but that doesn’t mean the supermoon looked bigger from everywhere! Because on the ISS, the supermoon looked more like a squishy, deflated, pruny moon.


May 4, 2012
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There Are Two F-16s Hiding In This Picture

I hope you’re not as easily fooled as I am, because I totally missed the two F-16s in this picture. I have an excuse! I was totally looking at the left hand side of the picture. And the picture I saw was really small! Like thumbnail-sized!


May 3, 2012
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Real Lasers On Real Sharks

Last week, a company called Wicked Lasers promised to attach lasers to sharks if enough people Liked the idea on Facebook. They did. It happened. It is awesome.


May 1, 2012
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The Most Amazing Warehouse I Have Ever Seen

I was amazed when I saw the 20m high Lego cathedrals, one of the largest warehouses in Europe that holds 19 billion Lego pieces a year. But this Christian Stoll’s photo of one of DB Schenker’s warehouses in Germany has let me speechless.


April 30, 2012
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This Secret Underground Bunker Is Full Of World War Weapons And Military Vehicles

The world is full of hidden, forgotten treasures, like this gigantic bunker hidden in a forest, buried in secret location. It’s full of weapons from the first World War, as well as modern military vehicles. And mushrooms.


April 27, 2012
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This Toilet Is Perfect On A Glass Floor Over A 15-Storey Shaft

So what do you do when the penthouse atop the 15-storey building you’re renovating has a small unused space that was originally constructed as a shaft for a second elevator? Well, if you’re the architects at Hernandez Silva, you turn it into a glass-floored bathroom that would give professional Hollywood stuntpersons second thoughts about using.


April 26, 2012
Gadgets

You’ve Never Seen Your Console Controllers Like This Before

Who cares about console controllers? They sit on our floors, they’re thrown against our walls and do our bidding. Boring chunks of plastic. But when you X-ray them, they look downright gorgeous, like cyborg jellyfish.