When it comes to vaccines and immune health, the results aren’t too good to be true. Jena Ardell/Moment via Getty Images Aimee Pugh Bernard, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and David Higgins, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus There are a dizzying number of tips, hacks and recommendations on how to stay healthy, from […]
A rather old but very informative video explaining why we have blind spots and a technique to help you see the blood vessels inside your own eyes! [Guillaume Riesen]
Think you have free will? This mind-bending video explores the possibility that your choices are just an illusion. Your body is made up of particles that blindly follow the laws of physics, with every outcome already predetermined. Could it be that you don’t have any free will at all? Dive into the debate: Is free […]
Typically, with any piece of technology, you pump one unit of energy in and you get about one out. That’s just the first law of thermodynamics: energy has to be conserved. But there’s a piece of technology called a heat pump, where for every bit of energy you put in, you get three to five […]
What if humanity somehow disappeared from the face of the earth in an instant, when would the final flicker of artificial light fade away? Randall Munroe from XKCD answers that question in his latest video!
Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock Dan Denis, University of York Twenty-six years. That is roughly how much of our lives are spent asleep. Scientists have been trying to explain why we spend so much time sleeping since at least the ancient Greeks, but pinning down the exact functions of sleep has proven to be difficult. During the past […]
Geckos can scale amost everything without suction cups, velcro, or glue! They do it something much cooler: an actual electon dance at the atomic level! Gecko feet aren’t covered in suction cups or Velcro. They don’t squirt glue, or leave any footprints. Their secret is a herculean amount of grip — at the atomic scale. […]
A goat with an arrow wound nibbles the medicinal herb dittany. O. Dapper, CC BY Adrienne Mayor, Stanford University When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him. The animal chewed the leaves of a […]
A May 2024 solar storm made the northern lights visible across parts of the northern U.S. AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson Douglas Goodwin, Scripps College Smartphone cameras have significantly improved in recent years. Computational photography and AI allow these devices to capture stunning images that can surpass what we see with the naked eye. Photos of the […]
A Dyson sphere. Image generated via Stable Diffusion. Simon Goodwin, University of Sheffield There are three ways to look for evidence of alien technological civilisations. One is to look out for deliberate attempts by them to communicate their existence, for example, through radio broadcasts. Another is to look for evidence of them visiting the Solar […]