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Category: Science

  • The Periodic Table of Elements made from cupcakes [pic]

    Considering the fact that we have tens of thousands of geeks visit Global Geek News every month, I think it is pretty safe to assume that some of them are like myself in that they have a love for science.  Again like me, they probably also have a love for food.  Well, then this post…

  • Nuclear fission demonstrated with mousetraps [video]

    I’ve understood how nuclear fission works for years but I have never seen such a cool demonstration of how it works like this demonstration with mousetraps and ping pong balls.  The demonstration in the video below was created by some people at Harvard University to explain how nuclear fission works.  Below is a description of…

  • Massive colorful Mentos soda fountain [video]

    Until I saw this post, I thought the whole Mentos and Diet Coke meme had died.  Apparently an educational group known as Mad Science didn’t get that memo because to celebrate the Easter season in the UK, they created a massive Mentos and soda fountain with hundreds of bottles of the stuff!  They also put…

  • Photographer captures Northern Lights in time-lapse [video]

    A photographer by the name of Eirik Evjen in northern Norway set up a camera on a mountain to take some photos of the sky at night last Friday.  To his surprise, when he checked out the pictures from the next day, he caught some spectacular shots of the of northern lights.  You can see a…

  • Amazing picture of the moon and Venus over Switzerland [pic]

    On Wednesday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day feature on the NASA website, they posted this amazing picture (below) that was taken by David Kaplan.  The photo was taken above the village of Trübbach, Switzerland and it shows the moon and Venus in the upper right and the mountain Mittlerspitz in the middle.  Although it looks really cold with…

  • Amazing volcano eruption videos from Japan’s Mount Kirishima

    With all of the news about the changes in the Yellowstone super volcano that has flooded the news in the US lately, many might not realize there is a volcano erupting in Japan right now known as Mount Kirishima.  From what I am told, it is the biggest eruption the volcano has seen since 1959.…