A war has been going on for billions of years that breeds well armed monsters who struggle with other monsters for survival. Having no particular interest in us, most of them are relatively harmless, as our immune systems deal with their weapons handily. But there are exceptions. Naegleria fowleri is an amoeba that not only […]
The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences presents “The Egg”, a video short from the 2011 BIOS Explorer program’s “Water Moves” series. Watch what happens when we crack open a raw egg 60 feet (20 meters) below the surface! [BIOSstation]
Have you ever heard ‘evolution’ dismissed as ‘just a theory’? Is a scientific theory no different to the theory that Elvis is still alive? Jim Al-Khalili puts the record straight. There’s an important difference between a scientific theory and the fanciful theories of an imaginative raconteur, and this quirk of semantics can lead to an […]
A man in a completely “locked in” state has successfully communicated with his carers and family through brain signals alone. The technology worked without requiring even the eye movements of similar systems for people with near-complete paralysis. The German man has a variant of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) that has gradually damaged his motor neurons […]
Some birds fly in V shapes because it has many benefits, but other birds fly in clumps instead. Why would they do that? Find out in this episode of SciShow. [SciShow]
So yeah, this robot looks a little like a magnetic turd, but what it can do is truly mind-blowing! I wouldn’t be super comfortable hacing something like this inside my body, though. [AsapSCIENCE]
From Wired: Everyone’s favorite garbage nerd, Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli, is here to answer the internet’s burning (well, maybe we’ll ease up on the burning) questions about waste. Why don’t we just throw all our garbage into a volcano? What does zero waste actually mean? Does recycling actually do anything? Meredith answers all these questions and much, […]
Watch as Action Lab host James Orgill starts spinning a ball inside a beaker… and then, somehow, the ball never stops spinning. The key to a good perpetual motion machine is to hide the power source! [The Action Lab]
There are rocks in the Death Valley desert in California that seem to move on their own. The mystery behind these rock took decades to solve, and in this video, Physics Girl explains the science behind the phenomenon. [Physics Girl]
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