Science would have been much more interesting in high school with a guy like this in front of the class. Needless to say but just in case: Don’t try this at home!!! :) [Youtube]

What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of ‘normal’ can lead to extraordinary breakthroughs. [Youtube]

The largest single cell in the human body is the egg, which is roughly the size of the period at the end of this sentence. That’s not unusual–in even the most basic biology class, students learn that individual cells are tiny little things, viewable only under high magnification. But xenophyophores break the rules a bit. […]

Scientists at the Université Paris Diderot have created a hoverboard, that you can stand on and ride.  I am so jealous.  I want this for me.  They need to make one that can go on water though, even if you don’t have power.

For your daily “why we are all going to die” news, we have this story from the ’90s, in which a young boy, attempting to earn a Boy Scout badge, becomes an irradiated, tentacled monster.  The last part is false, but if this kid isn’t a supervillain by now, we’ve all been lied to. How […]

For those who’ve always wondered why people actually dream, this interesting video by the people at vsauce will teach you everything there is to know about this natural phenomenon of the sleeping process. Enjoy! Good general sleep info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep Sleep facts: http://www.abc.net.au/science/sleep/facts.htm REM sleep: http://www.why-we-dream.com/remstate.htm Old video about REM sleep: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzoU0_sgip4 More info on Lucid Dreaming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASf55cov5F8 Incredible documentary on […]

“We believe we have direct evidence for an ongoing Late Heavy Bombardment in the nearby star system Eta Corvi, occurring about the same time as in our solar system,” said Carey Lisse, senior research scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., and lead author of a paper detailing the findings […]

Freakin’ magnets, how do they work? [ASTCvideos via reddit]

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope recently produced a map of the night sky. Out of 1873 new sources, nearly 600 were complete mysteries. In this week’s ScienceCast, researchers speculate on the nature of the mystery objects – including the possibility that they are made of dark matter. [nasa]

Original spin: Was the universe born whirling? We know that the Universe is both expanding and accelerating (and thanks to a team who recently won the Nobel Prize, that the expansion is accelerating, too). As if that weren’t enough to try and wrap your brain around, it turns out that it may also be spinning. […]