Impossible Engineering: Building The World’s Largest Radio Telescope

On September 2016, China unveiled the world’s largest radio telescope, and has started test operations searching for signals to understand the origins of the universe and the Big Bang. This 500 metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, has been constructed over 5 years in a 45 million year old crater in Southern China. The remote […]

Do Anti-Aging Creams Actually Work? [SciShow Video]

You can’t open up a magazine without seeing someone with impossibly smooth skin selling some sort of “anti-aging” cream, but could some of these products actually work? According to scientic litterature, yes, they do work, but there’s mostly only 1 thing that’s really effective in these creams: Retinol. Watch this episode of SciShow to learn […]

Why Is Fake Blood so Hard to Make? [Science Video]

Many scientists have attempted to make functional artificial blood in recent years, but the process isn’t quite perfect yet. However, things might be about to change thanks to the UK’s National Health Service and stem cell technology. Learn all about the technology of “Fake Blood” in this interesting episode of the SciShow. [SciShow]

Watch a Super Acid Eats its Way Through Tangerines, Alien Style

Chlorosulfonic acid is just like the blood of a xenomorph when applied to an organic substance: it eats its way through it. Chlorosulfonic acid is a super acid, an acid that has an acidity greater than 100% pure sulfuric acid. Chlorosulfuric acid (IUPAC name: sulfurochloridic acid) is the inorganic compound with the formula HSO3Cl. It […]