This is a Geiger counter, every click you hear is a little piece of ionizing radiation, which in this device could be alpha, beta, x-ray or gamma rays passing through it’s detector, the faster the clicks the more radiation there is. Ionizing radiation is of particular interest because unlike lower …
Will our electricity come from space in the future?
As our need for Electricity increases, solar power is increasingly seen as the future of renewable, green electricity generation. Every hour more solar energy reaches the earth than the whole world uses in a year. But it has two big drawbacks, our atmosphere, 30% of the suns energy is reflected …
LIVE – The end of the Universe – with Ethan Siegel – REPLAY
In today’s live stream, we will be looking at the end of the universe with theoretical astrophysicist and science writer Ethan Siegel. Along the way we see how the knowledge that we have built up to come up with our best theory about the start of the universe could show …
What’s Wrong with Earth’s Magnetic Field? – The South Atlantic Anomaly
From satellites malfunctioning to strange flashing lights seen by astronauts on the International Space Station, there is something odd happening in certain parts of space close to earth and the cause of these could have wide-ranging impacts on all of us in the future. In February 2016, the state-of-the-art Japanese …
The search for Planet X / Planet 9 / Nibiru
It’s the end of the world as we know it… again. In the last few weeks the tabloids and conspiracy theorists have been busy with another dire prediction that Nibiru aka Planet X and Planet 9 will trigger earthquakes, floods and generally the end of the world, this time it …
Zeppelins of Mars – HAVOC on Venus : NASA’s new Planetary Airships
If you thought airships like the Zeppelin were a thing of the past and consigned to the history books for their dangerous ability to burst into flames, then think again because NASA is looking at using them to explore Mars and Venus. On March 21st, 1999, a giant silver …
Will space junk end our modern way of life ? – The Kessler Syndrome
Space aint what it used to be, mainly because just like here on the earth, we are slowly filling the most important part just above us, with junk. After sixty years of space travel, flight debris, or space junk, has accumulated around the Earth, to the point that it’s becoming …
Nasa’s Million Dollar Space Pen vs The Soviet Pencils
The story of the NASA’s million $ space pen and the soviet pencils has become one of the enduring tales from the space race which still floats around the internet today and goes a bit like this. During the 1960’s as NASA was sending the first men in the space, …
What if time did not exist ?
What would happen, if one day you woke up and time no longer existed?, I’m not talking about stopping time or what we may think is the definition of time. I mean no time, no flow from past to present to future, no entropy, just now. No clocks or calendars, …
Why is the Sun hot ?
Why is the sun hot?, now before you jump on the comments and say “because it’s the sun, stupid” think about it, our sun is basically a giant nuclear reactor at the centre of our solar system but not like the ones on earth. They create energy by nuclear fission, …