PsiVid

A while ago, I wrote about a science version of the popular Epic Rap Battles of History about a showdown between Einstein and Hawking. It was amusing and a great way to use popular culture to highlight science. Capitalizing on the successful genre of Epic Rap Battles of History, Life Technologies has created a video [...]

Colonel Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut, Mission Specialist on STS-74 who also performed multiple EVAs on STS-100, and IS, for a few hours longer, the well-loved commander of the International Space Station mission 35. He has been a great inspiration for everything to do with social media (with the assistance of his son, Evan), giving those [...]

Not too long ago, I wrote about an awe-inspiring video that captured the night sky in an intriguing way, using timelapse to create “star trails” and to follow the objects in the night sky over Death Valley. Happily, I present to you a follow up, called Death Valley Dreamlapse 2. You will want to watch [...]

You will never guess what people in China are doing to their dogs… This month, the Scientific American network became a lot larger with the addition of the Scientific American MIND blogs. In this episode of ‘Best of the Blogs’ we meet a few of our new MIND bloggers (including Julie Hecht at Dog Spies), [...]

This darling stop motion video was released yesterday and is already a big hit. IBM decided to take the challenge of moving 5,000 atoms around in order to create a short stop motion video, capturing the images using a scanning tunneling microscope. How important is the scanning tunneling microscope in science? Half of the 1986 [...]