The Joy of Stats is an hour long documentary that will take you through the wonderful world of statistics. Yes, I know that the idea of spending an hour watching this will turn quite a few of you down, but since the documentary is presented by superstar boffin Professor Hans Rosling, whose eye-opening and funny […]
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American physicist Richard Feynman on the Likelihood of Flying Saucers.
Some examples of the numerous life forms living on our body made visible by scanning electron microscopes.
The planet’s population is hurtling towards 7 billion. But its growth will start to slow.
A group of British elementary school pupils, some aged just eight, have become the youngest science writers to have a paper accepted by a peer reviewed journal. They discovered that bumblebees are able to use a combination of color and spatial patterns to recognize flowers that will provide nourishment. The project was organized by University […]
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Explaining how complexity can arise through gradual evolution and debunking anti-evolutionist arguments.
How do we know black holes exist? Would you like to know what it would be like to fall into one? Recent simulations and cutting-edge visuals are giving new insight into these strange objects and have helped us answer five big questions about them.
If you’ve got a weakness for gambling, you might try to explain your vice away by saying “I’m only human.” But it turns out that chancing your luck is something other species do. According to researchers from the University of Kentucky, pigeons also like to gamble, even when the odds are against them. Professor Thomas […]