The Supreme court has ruled that human genes can’t be patented. However, synthesized versions of the material can be patented, the judges ruled. In a unanimous verdict, the judges ruled against Myriad Gentics. That’s a firm which registered patents on two genes (BRCA1 and BRCA2) which appear to be indicators of women having an increased […]

Watch as the team from the Periodic Videos Youtube channel drop a piece of hot charcoal into liquid oxygen and film the whole process with a high-speed camera. Fascinating. [Periodic Videos | Via IHC]

Check out this amazing picture featuring a boulder that went tumbling down a slope on Mars. The photo was caught by the HiRISe camera located aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. What started it up? A Marsquake, a nearby impact, the erosion of its underpinning due to the relentless Martian winds? You can see the boulder […]

Ok, so this video isn’t the most exciting thing in the world, but it gets its point across very simply and elegantly. Animation for a hypothetical organisation, particles, that make particle physics theories relevant and interesting for the general public. This is a short explanation of the Higgs boson, which I created as part of […]

Can human beings really feel the temperature of the objects they touch? Check it out in the video above, the answer might surprise you. [Minute Physics | Via TA]

… but no need to worry for now, it’ll take a few billion years before we lose our atmosphere this way! [Minute Earth]

Have you ever wished you could record your dreams and watch them later? It may be possible sooner than you think… [ASAPScience]

As Alex on Neatorama says: Biology is the only science where multiplication and division mean the same thing. [Source: Nature Gifs | Via Neatorama]