No time to read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time? In just two and a half minutes, Alok Jha explains why black holes are doomed to shrink into nothingness then explode with the energy of a million nuclear bombs, and then rewind to the big bang and the origin of the universe. [TheGuardian | […]
US researchers believe it’s possible to put all smells into 10 rough categories. But it remains difficult to objectively measure or even describe a smell. While we can do a relatively decent job of measuring light and color, or of measuring pitch and volume, scents are a trickier proposition. Although taste falls into five main […]
Magnets: What are they and how do they work? Find out in this new video by Minute Physics! More on magnets: How Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work: [Minute Physics]
Is your lack of sleep slowly killing you? And if you were to stop sleeping right now, how long could you survive? Find out in this interesting video by the guys over at ASAP Science! [ASAPScience]
http://youtu.be/IqArHwtvE9Y Some taste good, others save lives but all 10 of these inventions came about by accident. [All Time 10s]
http://youtu.be/CInjrK06bUE Bill and Ted, Marty McFly, those guys in the hot tub; time travel seems to belong in the world of fiction, but here are some ideas that might make it a reality in 10 mind-bending theories about time travel. [AllTime10s]
So geeks, what is the biggest organism currently living on earth? A blue whale? A giant mutant panda? Something that is there but we are not yet aware of? Watch this video to find out! [Minute Earth]
This picture was captured on Mercury by NASA’s Messenger probe back in 2011 and was appropriately titled “He will not be permanently damaged.” A portion of the terrain surrounding the northern margin of the Caloris basin hosts an elevated block in the shape of a certain carbonite-encased smuggler who can make the Kessel Run in […]