Get nostalgic for the future with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s collection of travel posters for the skies.
Category: science fun
Remember when cosmonaut Yelena Serova was asked how she would look after her hair in space? Or when astronaut Sally Ride was asked ‘do you weep when things go wrong on the job?’
Everyone who has been thinking about extraterrestrials for five minutes straight without involving fantasies of abduction has certainly wondered “why don’t we see any signs of them?” Estimations say that it’d be within reason to expect thousands of civilizations in…
During the last weeks I loaded several small posts and of course the big one…
A useful graph circulated one year ago – so, April the 1st. It might seem cryptic at first. But it is simply a collection of some of the supersymmetric particles that ought to have been discovered in the last decades,…
Fast radio bursts are one of the outstanding celestial mysteries. As was written here last month, these super-energetic flashes have been puzzling everyone who cares enough since 2007 when the first one was detected. However, a few which were found…
Dresden Codak is a webcomic described by its creator Aaron Diaz as a “celebration of science, death and human folly”. (Fun fact: when Diaz went on Kickstarter to crowdfund the book edition of the comic, he collected half a million…
(From time to time I have the habit of posting vaguely-science-related pics from Blossom City Hotel, my photoblog. I hope you enjoy them.)
In the last years more and more events see science combined with drinks, which is probably one of the sanest things around. And even when you can’t leave your home to just step into good bar science you can still…
Many of the things you always wanted to know about quantum computing but were afraid to google.