In response to that one debate you had way back in health class that ended abruptly because there wasn’t nearly enough coffee or cigarettes in the teacher’s lounge to put up with that crap, and really, jesus christ these children; ASAP Science has attempted to answer who has it worse: women in child birth, or […]
Month: April 2013
Not too long ago, some of Google Glass’s specs got out there, but we were missing two critical pieces: CPU and RAM. Now, thanks to some endeavouring hackers who’ve gotten their hands on a pair, we now know some of those details. Jay Lee, with some help from Liam McLoughlin, managed to find Glass’s USB […]
People talk about cities falling into decay all the time, but it’s usually metaphoric. Not so with this cityscape made of bread — which moulds and crumbles before your eyes. Theater set designer Johanna Mårtensson created this doughy dystopia after reading an article about how the world could cope quite easily without humans littering its […]
A new series of measurements have revealed that the Earth’s core is actually 1,000°C hotter than we previously thought — meaning the centre of our planet is actually as hot as the surface of the Sun. We’ve long known that the very core of the planet — despite being exceedingly hot — is made of solid, crystalline iron […]
What a DDoS Attack Looks Like
When hackers do cyber-battle, there isn’t much to see. Maybe you’ll wind up on a crashed website, but the real carnage is happening behind the scenes, perpetrated by a diffuse army of computers a world away. This is what it looks like. What you see here is a record of a April 23rd DDoS attack […]
Do You Actually Need Word Anymore?
Google Drive now automatically syncs your files for offline editing, breaking the final stronghold of the traditional Office app. So, the time has come to ask the question: Do we really need anything but Google Docs anymore? I, personally, still use Word. That’s simply because sometimes the internet cuts out and I’ve lost my work […]
Why Is Amazon’s Packaging So Dumb?
We’ve all had it happen to us: order a small item from Amazon, only to have it arrive in what seems to be the world’s biggest box. What gives, Bezos? Redditor V_for_VinceVega posted this picture of the packaging that surrounded a battery. A single battery. Of course, the warehouse could have run out of appropriate […]
Picture this: You’re walking through a churchyard, minding your own business, when you stumble across something squishy on the ground. Your dog is chewing on it, so it must be tasty. You bend down to get a closer look, and… holy-hell it’s a human ear! That’s precisely what happened to a one Ben Jackson-Smith, who […]
We all love pasta, right? Of course we do — ever since the Italians brought it over to the UK in 1983, we’ve all of us been stark staring pasta daft. Now, instead of buying it in bags, you can make your own! Yes, for only £9.99 (half its regular price) you can be the […]
The Science of Jetpacks
If there’s one universal truth, it’s that everybody wants to fly around using a jetpack. But how the hell do they work? This video should help explain. Bear with the physics, because the video as a whole makes for some really interesting watching. [YouTube]