What’s eight feet tall, has a creepy nickname and can be smelled from miles away? It’s the rare titan arum plant, aka the corpse flower or Amorphophallus titanum, which just bloomed in the United States Botanic Gardens in Washington, DC. The plant has an unpredictable blooming cycle that lasts years, and the corpse-like odor it […]
Another awesome episode of “True Facts” by Ze Frank, this time featuring the owl! [Ze Frank]
A fantastic picture of the pale blue dot (Earth) as seen from beneath the rings of Saturn. From Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker: We can’t see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19. Cassini’s picture reminds us […]
Bill Nye The Science Guy and AsapSCIENCE team up to answer this burning question. Do we stand a chance against a giant rock, on a collision course for Earth? [AsapSCIENCE]
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, recently mapped the boundaries of the solar system’s tail, called the heliotail. By combining observations from the first three years of IBEX imagery, scientists have mapped out a tail that shows a combination of fast and slow moving particles. The entire structure twisted, because it experiences the pushing and […]
How does a transistor work? Our lives depend on this device. When I mentioned to people that I was doing a video on transistors, they would say “as in a transistor radio?” Yes! That’s exactly what I mean, but it goes so much deeper than that. After the transistor was invented in 1947 one of […]
Please note: Don’t try this at home, or in fact, anywhere, unless you’re under the supervision of a qualified professional. NH4Cr2O7 + HgSCN + Fire = RELEASE THE KRAKEN! [Source: Albert Schweinstein | Via TA]
From Coma Niddy: Join me on a pres-historic adventure. This Epic Rap Song translates the names of some of the most popular Dinosaurs! [Coma Niddy]
We’ve all got a body, now find out just how disgusting it can be by reading 10 disgusting facts about the human body. [Alltime10s]
A weekly show hosted by Hank Green, where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, Hank discusses 50 common science misconceptions about topics such as bats, dog years, and dinosaurs. [This is Mental Floss]