7 Science Myths You Probably Believe [Video]
[Buzzfeed]
[Buzzfeed]
This fun animation was made by Xiangjun Shi both as a graduation project at the Rhode Island School of Design and as a science communication project at the Brown University Department of Physics. [Xiangjun Shi]
Two orthopedic surgeons say they’ve confirmed the human knee does indeed have an extra ligament — something that has previously only been speculation. The traditional model of the knee has four major ligaments: a cruciate ligament at the front and another at the back, and a collateral ligament on the inside and another on the […]
Please watch the video before commenting. Thank you. Should you get vaccinated? Find out how vaccines work to protect the population and what can happen when celebrities get in the way of Science. Understood? :) [Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD Comics)]
All earthly creatures have skin, but what is the scientific purpose of our skin? Watch this video by Minute Earth to find out! [Minute Earth]
The myth of the bloodsucking vampire has stalked humans from ancient Mesopotamia to 18th-century Eastern Europe, but it has differed in the terrifying details. So, how did we arrive at the popular image we know, love and fear today? And what truly makes a vampire…a vampire? Michael Molina digs up the science and the superstition. […]
Does stress actually have the ability to kill? Find out what stress is doing to your body, and what can be done to alleviate it. [ASAPScience]
Here’s a video of the annual Pumpkin Carving contest at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Each participating team had only one hour to create their masterpiece. [Mark Rober]
Who better than Walter White to deliver some of the world’s baddest chemistry jokes? If you’re reading this from the front page, hit the “Read More” link below for the rest of the jokes.
“Fear is the expectation or the anticipation of possible harm… We know that the body is highly sensitive to the possibility of threat, so there are multiple pathways that bring that fear information into the brain,” explains Abigail Marsh, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at Georgetown University. Marsh’s research focuses on the neuroscience of fear […]