Where is the true North Pole? Is it in Canada? Russia? In the Arctic Ocean? Watch this video from Minute Physics to find out! [Minute Physics]

Long live heavy metals! A cool Tee by artist extraordinaire Wirdou. [Available @ The Neatoshop]

The United Kingdom looks set to be the first country to give the legal go-ahead for IVF treatment that would combine genetic material from three people. The technique, known as mitochondrial transfer, would be designed to stop mothers passing on particular types of genetics-based disorders. The disorders involve faults in mitochondria, known informally as cellular power […]

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]