Relative rotation rates and axial tilts of (the only) mapped planets and dwarf planets, at 10hours/sec [OC] byu/physicsJ indataisbeautiful An informative animation by data scientist James O’Donaghue showing the rotation speed and axial tilt of the planets of our solar system. I had no idea Jupitrer was spinning that fast considering its size! Wow! [Via […]
Octopuses are even more fluid than cats- the only rigid part of its body is the beak. How small a hole can an octopus squeeze through if he wanted to? Arnold is an octopus who lives at Octolab. Arnold’s favorite possession is his barrel, which gives him an incentive in this experiment. A transparent wall […]
Watch as the folks from Minuteearth rank dragons based on how biologically and evolutionarily plausible they are. [MinuteEarth]
A short video explaining why clouds stay up in the sky, even though they may be unimaginably heavy. Clouds are heavy. The water in a cloud can have a mass of several million tons. Every cubic metre (m3) of the cloud has only about 5 grams of water in it. Cloud droplets are also about […]
CGP Grey is back to lay some knowledge down. So which planet is closest to earth? Whatever you guess, you are wrong. The difference is in how we learned the planets in their order from the sun. They don’t line up that way in reality. Here we get an amazing visualization of the planets in […]
Yes, you can bend light with a mirror, but did not you that there are plenty of other cool ways to do it? Here are a few other ones by MEL Chemistry (above) and Alejandro del Mazo Vivar (below.) [Via TA]
Today, one of the biggest paradoxes in the universe threatens to unravel modern science: the black hole information paradox. Every object in the universe is composed of particles with unique quantum properties and even if an object is destroyed, its quantum information is never permanently deleted. But what happens to that information when an object […]
When things start looking grimy in the bathroom, and it’s time to whip out yellow gloves, the only thing that matters is getting the job done as soon as possible. So you open the cabinet, see a bunch of bottles and think “Hey, this cleans and that cleans, why not mix them all together? That’ll […]
Sometimes your body won’t let you forget that spicy burrito you had yesterday! [SciShow]
There are currently hundreds of thousands of people on transplant lists, waiting for critical organs like kidneys, hearts and livers that could save their lives. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough donor organs available to fill that demand. What if, instead of waiting, we could create new, customized organs from scratch? Taneka Jones explores bioprinting, a new […]