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Watch 32 Metronomes Sync Up (It’s Science!)
Watch 32 Metronomes Sync Up (It’s Science!)
Watch 32 Metronomes Sync Up (It’s Science!)
We realize asking people to stare at a bunch of out-of-sync metronomes is kind of a hard sell, but this is actually really cool. For a while it seems like it's not going to happen, then, magically (note: technically physics, not magic), they do. Here's why.
College Professor Sets Off Ping-Pong Ball Explosion
College Professor Sets Off Ping-Pong Ball Explosion
College Professor Sets Off Ping-Pong Ball Explosion
Dr. Roy Lowry wanted to demonstrate a few basic principles of science, notably the behavior of liquid nitrogen under pressure. But how to get that across in a way that even the least scientifically curious student would think of as awesome. Easy: Just add ping-pong balls!
Bill Nye Explains Why the Chicken Crossed the Road
Bill Nye Explains Why the Chicken Crossed the Road
Bill Nye Explains Why the Chicken Crossed the Road
If you ask a six-year-old to tell you a joke there is a good chance they'd respond with the classic groaner "Why did the chicken cross the road?" However, as you can see in the video above from YouTube explainer Vsuace and Bill Nye The Science Guy, "Why did the chicken cross the road" isn't even really a joke...
Bill Nye the Science Guy vs. Creationism: ‘I’m Not Attacking Religion’
Bill Nye the Science Guy vs. Creationism: ‘I’m Not Attacking Religion’
Bill Nye the Science Guy vs. Creationism: ‘I’m Not Attacking Religion’
Bill Nye the Science Guy has taken the internet by storm with Twitter rumors that he was killed in a balloon accident (sparked by The Onion) and his new Web series for Big Think. Most recently, however, our favorite childhood TV scientist sparked a lively debate through his video blog, pitting science against creationism, and America, obviously, had something to say about it.
Build Your Own Solar Mobile Phone Charger in Five Minutes
Build Your Own Solar Mobile Phone Charger in Five Minutes
Build Your Own Solar Mobile Phone Charger in Five Minutes
Paying for electricity to charge your phone is so 2011. In the future, all the cool kids will be hacking their phone charger so they can just leave their phone on the windowsill when the battery's low.  Here's a video tutorial in five simple(ish) steps.
Science Makes Squid Cells Dance Uncontrollably to Cypress Hill
Science Makes Squid Cells Dance Uncontrollably to Cypress Hill
Science Makes Squid Cells Dance Uncontrollably to Cypress Hill
The guys at Backyard Brains, promise "neuroscience for everyone," and, by gum, they are certainly trying. For their video "Insane in the Chromatophores" (scientists are notorious lovers of bad puns, ask anybody), researchers attached a suction electrode to a squid's fin nerve and played Cypress Hill's "Insane in the Membrane" through it to stimulate it. Or, in laymen
What Do Hipsters Know About This Higgs Boson Thing? Next to Nothing
What Do Hipsters Know About This Higgs Boson Thing? Next to Nothing
What Do Hipsters Know About This Higgs Boson Thing? Next to Nothing
Last week, scientists announced the discovery of the long-sought after Higgs boson, commonly known as the "God particle." Some experts are saying this is the "biggest scientific discovery of the 21st Century" -- if the Higgs boson wasn't isolated, everything we thought we knew about the universe would've been proved false. If you secretly have no idea what we're talking about,

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