A slow-motion fire experiment in microgravity done by dropping a box with a GoPro and candle inside. This simulates how fire burns in space, just like the fire experiment they do on the ISS. [Physics Girl]
Ever wonder how fast the ships in Star Trek actually are? How about relative to one another? This video by Youtuber EC Henry takes a look at those differences! [EC Henry]
Let’s say that one day the whole world goes bonkers and you end up living in a post-apocalyptic society, this video by Youtuber Applied Science could help you create a refrigerator that cools itself using rubber bands. The design still needs to be perfected, but it does work, even if it just cools the inside […]
A new design could make kids clothes that fit the same child from three months to three years old. Ryan Yasin has won the James Dyson award for his work on the Petit Pli clothing range. Yasin aimed to overcome one of the most frustrating problems for parents: the way very young children outgrow clothes […]
Researchers at Rice, Durham (U.K.) and North Carolina State universities demonstrated in lab tests how rotors in single-molecule nanomachines can be activated by ultraviolet light to spin at 2 to 3 million rotations per second and open membranes in cells. The researchers used motors based on work by Nobel laureate Bernard Feringa, who won the […]
Mice neurons rather than silicon circuit boards could be the key to an airport security computers according to one start-up. The Koniku Kore device is designed to sniff out explosives in the same way as a mammal. The device is the work of Nigeria’s Oshi Agabi and is based around the idea that traditional computers […]
Plants are constantly under attack. They face threats ranging from microscopic fungi to small herbivores like caterpillars, up to large herbivores like elephants. But plants are ready, with a whole series of internal and external defenses that make them a less appealing meal — or even a deadly one. Valentin Hammoudi explains some of the […]
We live in an era of self driving cars, autonomous drones, deep learning algorithms, computers that beat humans at chess and go, and so on. So it’s natural to ask, will artificial superintelligence replace humans, take our jobs, and destroy human civilization? Or will AI just become tools like regular computers. AI researcher Max Tegmark […]
Black holes are scary things. But they also might reveal the true nature of the universe to us. [Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell]
Raincoats, car windshields, waterproof phones: They all use a little chemistry to stay dry. Inspired by nature, chemists use extremely water-fearing, or superhydrophobic, coatings to repel water from surfaces to keep them dry. Watch as the Reactions team uses a high-speed camera and some brave volunteers to bring the science of staying dry to life. […]