Wonderful garden in a sealed bottle has not been watered in over 40 years!

David Latimer has created a most unusual garden, one that seems to mimic the ecosystem of Earth – in a sealed bottle! On Easter Sunday in 1960, David placed compost in a large round bottle and used a wire to carefully lower a Spiderworts seedling into the mix. He then added a pint of water…

No replacement for a lost body part is going to be as good as the original (at least not yet), but in special cases, such as with professional drummer Jason Barnes, scientists can come pretty close.

Here’s a call to all little scientists out there – we need to find a reasonable way to stop or slow the global warming trend occurring around the planet and today, that call just got a little louder. Scientists at Florida State University have found that global warming, believed to be caused by large quantities…

A visitor to the lab once asked Geek Slop how big space was and the lab tour had to be cancelled. In short, Geek Slop answered with “really, really, really big” but what he really did was add a bunch of “reallys” to make the point that space was “really big”. There were so many…

The electric eel generates electricity that it uses to catch prey and protect itself if attacked. In the video below, a hungry South American alligator corners an electric eel on the bank of a small river. The alligator, whom we all know is surely not too bright, decides to make a meal of the electric…

Geek Slop understands. They’re creepy, icky, and tickle when they crawl through your hair but with an estimated 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 bugs and spiders crawling around on the planet, you might as well get used to them. Besides, some bugs and spiders are actually quite pretty. No? Check out the pictures below.

Scientists had long thought that Saturn’s moon Enceladus had an ocean of liquid water underneath its thick, icy surface (in 2004, NASA scientists saw water vapor and ice spewing from vents near the moon’s south pole). Today. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft revealed actual evidence that their guess was correct – an ocean lies hidden inside the…

The United States’ method of keeping time was already very accurate but yesterday, took a giant leap forward with the introduction of the NIST-F2 atomic clock. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been building the NIST-F2 for about 10 years in hopes of replacing the aging F1 which has been…

Scientists from California say they have discovered six new species of Dracula Ants (which the big scientists call Adetomyrma), those strange blind ants with big fangs that get their name from their bizarre habit of sucking the insect blood out of the colony’s own baby ants (called larvae).

It’s one year old and to celebrate the milestone, North Korea has rolled out a new logo for their space program called, and we’re not kidding here – NADA (as in Spanish for “nothing”). Not surprisingly, the logo is almost a direct copy of NASA’s iconic emblem (see below).

Category: Science

Wonderful garden in a sealed bottle has not been watered in over 40 years!

Scientists replace man’s lost arm with robotic drumming arm – meet the world’s first human-cyborg drummer!

Hey, kids. Hate to bum you out but guess what? Global warming may be worse than we thought.

How big is space? New facts from NASA about the El Gordo galaxy cluster blow our mind.

Alligator vs. electric eel. World premiere of the shocking video that stunned the, err, alligator.

Beautiful bugs and icky spiders

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft provides evidence of an ocean of water underneath Saturn’s moon.

The NIST-F2 atomic clock represents “official” U.S. time and the loses only 1 second every 300,000,000 years

Six new species of Dracula Ants discovered (and that’s six too many if you ask Geek Slop)

North Korea’s new space agency logo says a lot – NADA

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