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Sticky-Tape X-Rays

23 October, 2008 (16:38) | Science

Now this is going to sound weird but unpeeling sticky tape produces X-rays. A group of science geeks at UCLA have built a machine for unpeeling sticky-tape in a vacuum at the rate of about 5 centimeters per second for the express purpose of generating x-rays. Now it’s not a lot of x-rays or very [...]

LHC Rap

8 September, 2008 (17:15) | Science, Stuff

Being the part time science geek that I’m I had a good laugh when I came across this in a rant over at Applegeeks.com. The MC is a grad student who got permission to do some of the filming of the Rap video in the HLC tunnels the rest of the footage is from stock [...]

The Phoenix Has Landed

25 May, 2008 (19:21) | Science

As a part time Science Geek I keep half an eye on what Nasa is up to. Today what they were up to was the landing of the newest Mars mission Phoenix. The Phoenix mission is not a rover like the last couple of mission sent to Mars. Instead the Phoenix Lander will dig through [...]

The ATLAS Detector

2 May, 2008 (20:02) | Stuff

The ATLAS Detector is part of the CERN Large Hadron Collider and to put it bluntly is REALLY F’ING HUGE. I saw parts of it being installed on NOVA a couple of months back and it wasn’t till I saw the video below over on the Bad Astronomy Blog that the scale of the thing [...]