In the last episode of the BBC’s excellent Wonders Of The Universe series, everybody’s favourite pretty boy pop star turned serious physicist Professor Brian Cox showed us a wonderful trick. He had his Digital SLR camera on a tripod and pointed it up into the night sky towards Cassiopia and ...

One Christmas, in a moment of perfect parental insight, my mother got me a Madame Alexander doll, a copy of The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and a microscope. I know—it sounds like one of those standardized test questions: Which of these three is not the same—but there you ...

Ever want to take a picture of that cool insect you found on your last nature hike but all you had was your iPhone? Well I-Wei, a friend of GeekDad and the great mind behind Crabfu Artworks has a hack for you. By attaching an inexpensive field microscope ...