Dreams can be scary, mystifying, and sometimes unnatural feeling experiences, but there’s plenty about them that are perfectly ordinary. Here’s a compilation of some things we know about dreams. [SciShow Psych]
In the 1970s thousands of Chickenheads rained from the sky in Europe, making foxes and other wildlife confused and very happy. Why? They were filled with a vaccine to fight the deadliest virus known to humanity – since the 1930s a rabies epidemic had been sweeping across wildlife populations in Europe and humans wanted to […]
For those with a fear of needles, edible vaccines seem like some distant utopian dream, but that dream may soon be a reality… for chickens. [SciShow]
Fritz Haber is the scientist who arguably most transformed the world, saving billions of people throughout the years, but also killed millions. Here is his story. [Veritasium]
Representation of asteroid impacts of different sizes, what would be their destruction and consequences for the planet? Scientific data provided by Ignacio R. Ferrín, Ph. D. [MetaBallStudios]
Zoom Into the Southern Ring Nebula Captured by NASA James Webb Space Telescope. [thebhp | Via BIS]
Astronomers have detected radio waves with the longest distinct “heartbeat” pattern on record. They say it’s more likely coming from a neutron star than it is a sign of life. Writing in Nature, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers describe a fast radio burst, a batch of intense radio waves. The “clear periodic pattern” repeats […]
Remember when Elon Musk launched a car into space? It’s not just peacefully drifting through a vacuum–it’s hurtling around the sun at 63,592 mph, being bombarded by solar radiation. It might be in pieces. But, not the same pieces it would be in if it was down here on Earth. The environment of space breaks […]
The molecule responsible for hangovers is ethanol, which we colloquially refer to as alcohol. Ethanol is present in all alcoholic beverages, and generally speaking, the more ethanol, the greater the potential for a hangover. So, how exactly does alcohol cause a hangover— and is there any way to prevent one? Judy Grisel explores the surprising […]
A silo of sand could be the key to using renewable energy more efficiently according to an experiment in Finland. The first commercial “sand battery” could store heat for several months before using it to heat water. The project aims to tackle one of the big problems with energy generation methods such as solar and […]