From Broccoli to Big Macs – All of your favourite foods, shown as 200 calories! [ASAPScience]

These beads seem to levitate, defy gravity and jump out of the beaker. But how and why do they act like this? We met up with Steve Mould, the science guy from Britain’s Brightest, to explore the science behind the “self siphoning beads” – also known as “Newton’s Beads”. To get a closer look at […]

Watch as Andy from The Royal Institution Youtube channel brings together a levitating superconductor and a bewildering Möbius strip made from over 2,000 magnets. As his super-conducting boat whizzes along the track, Andy demonstrates the remarkable properties of the superconducting material (Yttrium barium copper oxide) which allows it to seemingly float both above and below […]

A fun video exploring the colorful science behind fluorescence. [Nurd Rage | Via UD]

The members of the HI-SEAS project are currently on a mission, simulating what an extended stay on Mars would be like for astronauts. The team has been pretty much been secluded for the past two months inside a small habitat without windows on a Hawaiian island, and will stay for another 2 months until the […]

Both nature and economy are driven by the same laws. Another interesting video by the folks over at Minute Earth. [Minute Earth]

Yes, turning sound into light is fairly easy, especially if you have a pet pistol shrimp, but no one understands exactly why it happens. The phenomenon is called “sonoluminescense,” and here’s a video that explains what we know so far about it. [Minute Physics]