Tag: science
Bling From Bugs: Caddisflies Are Natural Designers
Wads of jewels are not my thing. But bugs? When it comes to bugs, I’m all over them. And now they can be all over me - not the bugs themselves, but the jewelry that they've designed. I'm not talking about tent caterpillar gowns or beehive hairdos either. I'm talking about jewelry designed by an aqua ...
The Highest Resolution Photograph Of The Moon Ever Taken
Whoa! I've never seen the moon look like this before! I always thought it was just a big boring blurry blob with a few craters in it. I bet this one picture will inspire school children everywhere to become more interested in astronomy.
This absolutely gorgeous photo is the highest resolution pic ...
Art Created With Germs: The Beauty Of Bacteria
You are either going to feel dirty and rush to wash your hands after reading this, or you are going to think it's kinda neat. I fall somewhere in the middle. The inside of a human body is truly fascinating, and it gets even more mysterious and interesting when put under a microscope. Whether you are ...
Interview: X-Treme Geek – Where Being A Geek Is Big Business
Everyone who knows us here at Bit Rebels knows that we love to celebrate geeks, promote geeks and write about everything that has to do with being a geek. We often joke that someday geeks will inherit the earth, and if you're a geek, you know you are always welcome here. Gone are the days when geeks ...
Science: Beautiful Rainbow Colored Ant Stomachs
In the 5th grade, I tried hard to come up with a cool science experiment for my class. I ended up making perfume from flowers, which was a little boring. If I had known about this, it would have been the perfect science experiment to impress all my geeky elementary school friends.
Did you know th ...
Germaphobes: New Technology Makes Clothes Germ-Free
Do you carry hand sanitizer around with you and use it like it's your lifesaver? Do you wash your hands at least once each hour? Do you dread touching door knobs and faucets in public bathrooms? Do you buy everything you can that has an "anti-bacterial" label on it? If so, you are a germaphobe like ...
Interactive Robot Torso: Now You Can Hug Yourself
Hugs are an important part of good health. You know that, right? Hugs help reduce stress, they lower blood pressure, and they even slow down aging. It's true! In this hug article I wrote back in 2010, I listed a bunch of benefits that hugging gives us.
Hugs flow in abundance in social media, and ...
Science: A Shocking Discovery About Snails
This has been wigging me out since I read about it a few days ago, so maybe if I write about it, it won't seem so strange. Scientists have just discovered that some snails can survive being eaten by birds. In other words, the birds eat them, and then when they come out in the bird's poop, they just ...
The Science Of Surviving The Zombie Apocalypse
It seems we can never get too much of the infographics around here. This is especially true when they come loaded with good advice about how to make sure you get the very best out of whatever it is you are doing. It has proven to be quite a good promotional trick to create infographics, and whenever ...
The Science Behind Smelly Robot Armpits
If there were robots that looked exactly like humans roaming the earth, would you be able to tell the difference? There have been some really cool science fiction movies with these kind of robots, and as fast as robot technology is developing, it's not inconceivable that someday we might all have ou ...
The Best Time Of Day To Tweet (To Get The Most RTs)
Twitter retweets are really quite fascinating once you start studying them. I find them interesting because the science behind them is not always what you'd expect. As you learn more about retweets, you'll find several twists and turns that don't seem obvious. I've written about this before in an ar ...
Science: Preserved Fish Become Colorful Art Pieces
This is creepy cool. If you like your art mixed with a splash of science and imagination, you are going to love this. I'm surprised I haven't seen this art before today because it's fabulous. We've written about biology as it relates to art before. The combination of science and art is always fascin ...
10 Colorful Right-Brain & Left-Brain Interpretations
A few weeks ago, we wrote an article entitled How We Use Our Brains. It contained a beautiful infographic which suggested we only use 20% of our brain. I've always heard we use 10% of our brain. So what is the other 80% or 90% made of? Richard suggested that it might be possible that the universe eq ...
Stunning Slow Motion Video: Gelatin Cubes Jiggle Your Brain
I've written before about how much I don't like Jello. Well, it's not that I don't like it; it's more that I'm afraid of it. It's like an abomination of food. It goes up there in the same category as tofu, Spam and white chocolate. I think aliens might have put those things in our supermarkets even ...
DIY Kryptonite Candy: Destroy Superman From Your Kitchen
All you science geeks out there are going to love this! A chemical and biological engineering student interested in computational fluid dynamics figured out how to make glow-in-the-dark candy in her own kitchen, just for fun.
After reading about this, I've decided that Instructables member BrittL ...