America’s least communicative town could lose its status as the National Science Foundation considers mothballing a space observatory that currently means wireless signals are largely banned. Because Green Bank in West Virginia is so near to the observatory (and a naval radio station), where instruments must be kept free of interference, it’s the main residential […]
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure seed bank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) from the North Pole. Conservationist Cary Fowler, in association with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), started the vault to […]
We all get those intuitive gut reactions when making decisions, but should you follow them? We take a look at where these feelings come from, and if you can trust them! Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without proof, evidence, or conscious reasoning, or without understanding how the knowledge was acquired. Different writers give […]
Youtuber “Crazy Russian Hacker” got his hand on a ferrofluid bolt kit, and in this video, he demonstrates how the thing works. Seeing the ferrofluid dance around that bolt is really quite beautiful, and we usually don’t see the experiment that clearly in other demonstrations I’ve seen on the web. [Ferrofluid Bolt Kit]
This is a 360/VR video but you do not a VR viewer to experience the 360 viewpoint- just click around the video! In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2 to explore and document our solar system and the interstellar space beyond. The craft will drift for billions of years in the emptiness, each carrying […]
In this epidode of “Life Noggin,” show host Pat Graziosi tells us all about what it would take to create a true invisibility cloak using the science and materials we know about today. Check it out in the video above! Invisibility cloaks have been popularized by sci-fi movies, but surprisingly we’re not too far away […]
Watch as Hank Green from The SciShow demonstrates eight optical illusions that will trick your brain into perceiving the world in a way that does not reflect reality. Your brain does it’s best to inform you about the world around you. But, sometimes it gets tricked. Enjoy eight optical illusions to test your brain’s sensory […]
Everyone knows that when you drink a lot of coffee, it will probably make you poop, but do you know why your body reacts that way when you ingest the delicious black substance? In this episode of the SciShow host Michael Aranda explains why. With this said, now if you’ll excuse me, I have to […]
Communicating underwater is challenging. Light and odors don’t travel well, but sound moves about four times faster in water than in air — which means marine mammals often use sounds to communicate. The most famous of these underwater vocalizations is undoubtedly the whale song. Stephanie Sardelis decodes the evocative melodies composed by the world’s largest […]
In this episode of the SciShow, host Michael Aranda teaches us all about some of the best things we can do to fight the flu and the reason why there is a flu season, both in the northern and southern hemispheres. Each year, we try to fight flu season with the influenza vaccine and this […]