Category Archives: Science



Fighting fire with… electricity?

Harvard researchers believe firefighters could one day control and even extinguish fires using a gun that fires electricity. The project, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Department of Energy, investigated what’s said to be a 200-year-old observation that electricity can affect a flame’s shape, a point that hasn’t previously been the […]

The Billion-Bug Highway [Video]

If you look up in the sky, the only thing you usually see is some blue, a cloud here and there, and maybe a plane or a bird, but apart from that… nothing. However, it turns out that there’s quite an invisible world out there right above you! Check it out:



Swimming Magnetic Gels [Video]

Professor Miklós Zrínyi of Semmelweiss University in Budapest, Hungary, has invented a magnetic gel which can be shaped in various forms and then moved using magnetism. Soft magnetic materials like this one could be used for artificial muscles in robots, or to replace rigid machine components, such as valves. Other teams are also working on […]

The Photon Torpedo Is a Lie [Video]

If you’re a science geek and you aren’t watching Dr. Kaku’s Universe, prepare to spend a few hours catching up. Over on Big Think, theoretical physicist at C.U.N.Y. and popular radio host and television personality Michio Kaku answers reader questions about physics and futuristic science. This week he tackles Star Trek’s “photon torpedo” and talks about […]

Symphony of Science: Ode to the Brain!

“Ode to the Brain” is the ninth episode in the Symphony of Science music video series. Through the powerful words of scientists Carl Sagan, Robert Winston, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Jill Bolte Taylor, Bill Nye, and Oliver Sacks, it covers different aspects the brain including its evolution, neuron networks, folding, and more. The material sampled for this […]

ZOMG: Amazing Science-Themed Shirts

These t-shirts are made of so much “Winning!” and “Awesome!” that I absolutely had to share them with you guys. Science! is dedicated to bringing you the finest in off kilter science t-shirts with a faux sarcastic nerd loving absurdist bent. Funny geek friendly graphic t-shirt designs by Jeremy Kalgreen and are available in a […]

Nuclear Fission Explained With Mouse Traps and Ping Pong Balls [Vid]

Want to know how Nuclear Fission works? Check out this awesome demonstration some high school students did at the Horizon Science Academy in Cleveland. [Via]