Think we have it rough with our Cat 5 hurricanes and F2 or F3 tornadoes, well they are nothing compared to what can be whipped up on the Sun in the blink of an eye. Last week an incredible plasma tornado travelling across the Sun’s surface at speeds estimated to be around 300,000 mile per hour was caught by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite. Not only is the speed mind…

I love cool science and this my friends fits right in that category. I mean how cool is this – Italian physicists have just discovered traces of a very rare nuclei that contains an exotic form of matter called hyperons. This was part of the discovery of a hydrogen nucleus with 6 nucleons, which apparently includes 4 neutrons, 1 proton (which makes it hydrogen) and one uncharged hyperon called lambda.

Wow, I’m betting that right about now you are wishing your better half was this awesome. via Caveman Circus

Man, KickStarter is sure kicking it these days, what with incredible support for new game ideas and now we have this crowd-funded effort to bring the ultimate bike light to your handlebars. Apparently in the big cities the problem of having your bike light stolen is a common occurrence and after this happened to a colleague of one of the developers the idea of the Gotham Bicycle Defense Defender was…

Never mind the bungie jump or going over some silly falls in nothing but a fancy high-tech barrel. Nope we bring you the best way for you to show the world how totally insane you are and all it involves is a rope and a lot of nerve. Should you meet those requirements then you need to head down to Moab, Utah, and give the world’s largest rope swing a…

It is one thing to build tiny robots but the work into building them is time consuming and extremely difficult because it all has to be done by hand and powerful microscopes. This means that being able to build large numbers of something like tiny bee-sized robots that can act as a colony can take a long time. Not happy with how long it takes or how difficult it can…