When you picture the lowest levels of the food chain, you might imagine herbivores happily munching on lush, living green plants. But this idyllic image leaves out a huge (and slightly less appetizing) source of nourishment: dead stuff. John C. Moore details the “brown food chain,” explaining how such unlikely delicacies as pond scum and […]
A highly interesting video by Minute Earth explaining how scientists can establish a planet’s age, such as our planet being between 4.4 and 4.5 billion years old, not 6000. [Minute Earth]
The blood of a woman who died aged 115 has lent support to a theory about why humans inevitably die. Analysis of blood cells from Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper suggests that the eventual death of even generally healthy people may be because stem cells have a limited capacity to replenish tissue. van Andel-Schipper was born in […]
A fun music video from Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers’ upcoming new album, Incongruent [Pre-Order – Release Date: May 7th, 2014]. Oh, and there’s also a much more satisfying explicit version of the song right here if you want to check it out. [vlogbrothers]
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Have you ever wondered how birds see see the world? They actually see way better than us, and can even do so in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum! [SciShow]
From the Veritasium Youtube Channel: Rubens’ Tube is an awesome demo and here we take it to the next level with a two-dimensional ‘Pyro Board’. This shows unique standing wave patters of sound in the box. The pressure variations due to the sound waves affect the flow rate of flammable gas from the holes in […]
Scientists at the University of Queensland in Australia have been watching a piece of pitch (tar) drip–very slowly–for 85 years. They’ve just had the ninth drop in that time, and the first captured on camera. The pitch drop experiment was conceived in 1927 as an extreme way of demonstrating that a liquid could have such […]