In this video from Minute Physics, host Henry Reich inserts a mass damper in Lego’s amazing Saturn V set to demonstrate how engineers prevent structures from shaking. This video is about Tuned Mass Dampers, which can be used to reduce or avoid unwanted vibrations, swaying, swinging, bending, etc on engineered structures ranging from buildings, skyscrapers, […]
A sensuous song of molecular machines by Youtuber acapellascience also featuring Dorothy Andrusiak. [acapellascience]
Can video games actually make you violent? Asap Science investigates using facts and science. Check it out! [ASAP Science]
Blood banks need a constant supply of donors to maintain their supply, but some enzymes that are already in our bodies might be able to help! [SciShow]
Studies have found that even some of the most well-known home remedies don’t work, and sometimes they do more harm than good. Find out more about them in this episode of SciShow. [SciShow]
As some of you might know, when you keep a muscle clenched for too long, it tires out…Just remember that time you helped your buddy from college move ;) Well turns out one of our muscles doesn’t work like the others…Find out more about our buddy, the sphincter, that keeps us away from what could […]
From the American Chemical Society: Basics of Chemistry is a new miniseries from the American Chemical Society about the basics of Chemistry. In this episode we’re talking isotopes, what are they and why are they important? [Reactions]
66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid, larger than Mount Everest is tall, slammed our planet with the force of ten billion atomic bombs, unleashing giant fireballs, crushing tsunamis, continent-shaking earthquakes, and suffocating darkness. This was the cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, which drove the dinosaurs off the planet almost overnight. Or so we […]
Are wormholes real or are they just magic disguised as physics and maths? And if they are real how do they work and where can we find them? Find out in this episode of “In a Nutshell.” [Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell]
The human body is an incredible feat of evolutionary achievement, but just how much does this complex machine do every minute? That’s what we’ll explore today, in this episode of The Infographics Show- What will happen inside your body in the next 60 seconds. [The Infographics Show | Via Neatorama]