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.
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 speak, pretty colors!
Ever watched a sci-fi movie and pretty much sat there throughout it wondering just how unrealistic the stunts are? And if you're being particularly optimistic (some might say, unrealistic), what it might take for you to perform said stunts? Well, we're glad to be the bearer of great news then!
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, don't worry. You're not alone.
There are certain things we take for granted. But for Cathy Hutchinson (pictured above), a task as simple as reaching out for a glass of water seemed like an impossibility due to her paralysis. Until now.
For a few years now, nerds and scientists have been debating what would happen if someone put their hand in front of the beam of the Large Hadron Collider. Finally, one guy decided to ask this question of every science guy he could find.
For years, one universal scientific phenomenon has baffled scientists and lovers of ice cold sodas and slushies. Why do we get a raging headache when we drink a cold beverage way too fast?
Now science has found the answer.
"Noisy Jelly" is no longer just the name of an college folk music duo. It's an actual thing.
A couple of very innovative chemists and musicologists have invented a form of wobbly gelatin that can respond to touch with their own unique sound.
The internet's favorite astrophysicist, Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, was asked by a reader of TIME magazine what the most astounding fact he could share was. Tyson's profound answer has now been made even more breathtaking thanks to a fan-made video.
This teacher's physics experiment becomes a comedy routine when his object in motion collides with an immovable object. Don't think those 'Big Bang Theory' guys would have made that mistake.