Three-day-old milk ?!?

YES! Just what Geek Slop likes to see – a kid interested in learning! Check back here every week to see what the new Science Word of the Day is. Just think, after a year of this you’ll be a genius! This science word for today is: “Vomitus”.

NASA just released this satellite image of an eerie red glow over the Midwestern and Eastern United States. If your reaction was similar to Geek Slop’s (he threw on his hat and ran to the closet to grab his suitcase), you might think this is a bad thing. It’s not.

Classroom and Lab in Medical Building 1927 University of Alberta

Every so often, we hear this question. “But Geek Slop, I don’t like science. I’m perfectly happy working behind the counter of a fast-food restaurant until I’m 85 years old. How can I get out of this horrible lab work!” So here are 11 different ways to get kicked out of a Science Lab…

Third-graders explaining their science projects to Navy personnel

Science Fair judges can be pretty weird. If you could get into their head and figure out how they think, you’d have the upper hand in the contest – right? Well since we can’t get into their heads (you don’t have a medical degree yet so don’t even think about it), we’ll do the next…

Scientists with too much time on their hands have just finished a study that found peeing in the pool, which contains chlorinated water, is creating a deadly combination of chemicals. The chemical that results, cyanogen chloride, is known to the military as “CK” and is considered a chemical warfare weapon. So yeah, your pee in…

X-Rays are really quite amazing when you really think about it. I mean, come on guys, it lets you see right through things! Image how much fun it would be to have x-ray vision. When dad left for work you could snicker about his polka-dotted boxer underwear. At Wal-Mart you could look at closed-up stuff…

Like Jupiter, Saturn is a large, gaseous planet composed mostly of the gases hydrogen and helium. Saturn has a magnetic field 1,000 times stronger than Earth’s but not as strong as Jupiter’s. Due to its gaseous nature, Saturn’s density is so low that it could float in an ocean of water. It probably has a…