50 years of Tornado Tracks
Stunning map of NOAA data showing 56 years of tornado tracks sheds light on the folly of linking “global warming” to severe weather
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LL Ori and the Orion Nebula
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage TeamExplanation: This esthetic close-up of cosmic clouds and stellar winds features LL Orionis, interacting with the Orion Nebula flow. Adrift in Orion’s stellar nursery and still in its formative years, variable star LL Orionis produces a wind more...
Humanity explores the Solar System
What spacecraft is humanity currently using to explore our Solar System? Presently, every inner planet has at least one robotic explorer, while several others are monitoring our Sun, some aremapping Earth’s Moon, a few are chasing asteroids and comets, one is orbiting Saturn, and several are even heading out into deep space.
Our Sun Erupts
On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME,...
The Truth Behind Justin Bieber’s Calvin Klein Ad
College Humor reveals the Photoshop trickery that was used on Justin Bieber’s Calvin Klein ad by showing the editing process in reverse.
Quantum Computers Explained
Where are the limits of human technology? And can we somehow avoid them? This is where quantum computers become very interesting.