5 Best Android Apps to Turn UFOs Into IFOs
The next time you're out hiking the hills or strolling the city streets, make sure you have the following five apps on your Android phone or tablet, and you'll never have to worry about misidentifying a star, airplane or satellite as an UN-identified flying object ever again. You can turn those sightings into Identified Flying Objects!
Where Math Meets Beauty: Generate Stunning Fractals With These Free Tools
If you've ever seen fractals and their near-infinite zoom capabilities, you might as well stare at them all day long because of how interesting they can be. It'd be great to have some fractal viewers in hand so that you can explore their unique worlds whenever you wish. Even better, there are some very good tools out there which are also free, so why waste the opportunity?
5 Apps That Will Make Learning Fractions Easier & More Fun [iOS]
I remember when I was in school and one of the most difficult things to learn was fractions. Now that I understand them, they make sense (although I still prefer decimals). Whether you think they are annoying or not, you still need to learn them. Thankfully, there is so much technology available to help.
Calling Space Buffs: Go On A Search For Another Earth With NASA PlanetQuest
Future generations will experience the joy of shaking hands with beings from another Earth-like planet; Mars Attack and Independence Day notwithstanding. But I guess we aren’t so worse off either because sometimes the fun is in the hunt and in the grandest of all questions – are we alone in the universe?
5 Websites to Watch Educational Videos That Will Expand Your Mind
Watching videos is a fun and entertaining way to pass the time. If we were to watch every video available online, we could spend a lifetime. If you want to do more with your valuable time than watching shallow YouTube videos, dive into this article, which explores five websites that present fun, mind blowing, and advanced educational videos to expand your mind.
Simulate Building & Launching A Model Rocket With OpenRocket
We love making models here at MUO. But one problem with tweaking a model design in the real world is that to test it, you have to rebuild a rocket with new parameters, do a test launch, and then head back to the drawing board to further improve your design. What if you could use a computer to simulate a model rocket launch, with the ability to modify and test all of the possible alterations you can make to your rocket design?
6 Mind-Blowing TED Talks About Psychology & Human Behavior
The human brain is complex and confusing, which explains why human behavior is so complex and confusing. People have a tendency to act one way when they feel something completely different. Here are a few interesting TED Talks that delve into human psychology and try to explain why we are the way we are.
Experience Space Exploration In 3D At NASA Visualizations
Are you a fellow space explorer? If you had the opportunity to experience what's it's like to be an astronaut, or even one of the many technical support crew that support space exploration, would you jump for it? The amazing thing about NASA, besides all of the mind-bending missions into outer space, is just how hard the space agency works to educate the general public about space.
7 Amazing Websites To See The Latest In Artificial Intelligence Programming
Artificial Intelligence is not yet HAL from the 2001: The Space Odyssey…but we are getting awfully close. Sure enough, one day it could be as similar to the sci-fi potboilers being churned out by Hollywood. The scale of ambition is different, but AI programming is a full-fledged field in the cutting edge of science today. If you have some interest in the world of tomorrow, check out these websites to grasp what artificial intelligence is all about.
BioDigital Human - An Amazing 3D Map & Reference Of The Human Body
Remember Google Body Browser? This used to be a very cool Google Labs project that let you view a 3D map of the human body and learn about it. Well, it’s gone now, such is the way of some Labs projects. The company behind it, Zygote, says that that it will release it as a full product. But that doesn’t mean you have to wait, because BioDigital Human is available right now, for free.
9 Live Citizen Science Projects You Can Participate In To Learn More About Our Planet & Space
Science has gone social. Research scientists maybe crunching away at their super-computers but they aren’t neglecting the remarkable potential of the most powerful computer of all – the human brain. When you put a few billion together you get a massive neural network that no computer can match.
Study The Movement Of The Milky Way With Solar Model
One of the things I'm always on the lookout for when searching for free apps to review are more cool space explorer apps or websites but most of them amount to nothing more than novelty apps. So I was pretty excited to come across Solar Model 2, because aside from being able to explore space in an advanced graphical rendering engine, it also lets enthusiasts and students "measure" space.
10 Websites For Unit Conversions & Calculations
The old bugbear of unit conversions confounds many. Online unit converters and calculators save the day today. It’s no longer a case of 1,000,000 headaches = 1 mega-headache as online unit converters do the math with a click. Here are ten of them.
Explore Space On Your iPad with The NASA's iPad App
NASA, one of the pioneers in space exploration, has released a free iPad app which collects, customizes, and delivers an extensive selection of dynamically updated mission information, images, videos, and Twitter feeds from various online NASA sources in a convenient mobile package.
7 Cool iPhone & iPad Space Apps From NASA [iOS]
NASA and its astronauts have boldly gone where many of us can only dream of going – the depths of space. Their website is full of information, thought-provoking imagery and a couple of awesome free downloads. Here are 7 of the best NASA apps to entertain, amaze and inform you about space, science and the elements around us.
5 Cool Science Experiments You Should Check Out On YouTube
Experimenting can be a lot of fun, especially if you have no idea what the outcome will be.