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From Popular Science. Decades before software like Premiere and iMovie made video editing cheap, easy, and accessible for everyone, the only option was chaining a conglomerate of vintage 80s technology – multiple camcorders or VCRs and a TV – to craft custom analog video. Then the Videonics system changed tech history forever. With professional-grade setups…
From Popular Science. Nearly 50 years ago, the Polavision camera blended Polaroid’s revolutionary instant film with on-demand home video – and the result was a landmark advance in analog technology that would become a mystery of science and a winding international journey into vintage tech. Because now, generations after Edwin Land bet his half-century legacy…
From Popular Science. A global team of 287 researchers have combined over 100 terabytes of data to create a full map of a fruit fly’s brain, which includes 139,255 individual neurons and 50 million connections. Popular Science, "Scientists mapped every neuron of an adult animal’s brain for the first time": https://www.popsci.com/environment/complete-brain-map/ #science #sciencefacts #weirdscience #biology…
From Popular Science. Some people can’t burp… at all. It’s called Retrograde Cricopharyngeus Dysfunction, and RCD makes life seriously uncomfortable — both physically and socially. There’s an easy, increasingly popular medical fix that unlocks the power of the belch, and it’s actually changing lives. Popular Science: https://www.popsci.com/technology/thanks-to-reddit-a-new-diagnosis-is-bubbling-up-across-the-united-states/ #medical #sciencefacts #science #scienceandtechnology
From Popular Science. [YouTube Age-Restricted the previous upload. This is a new censored version.] Nearly 200 years ago, a mysterious teen boy arrived in Nuremberg. The event ignited the Kaspar Hauser story: a tale of weird history, an unsolved mystery that endures today, and a battle between the ancient lore of a feral child and…
From Popular Science. A newly-discovered fish in the Red Sea has menacing teeth and a sinister face, hiding in coral to strike at unsuspecting prey. But the grumpy dwarfgoby — nicknamed ‘The Grumpy Cat of the Sea — is just 2 centimeters long! Popular Science, "Seriously grumpy-faced fish discovered in Red Sea": https://www.popsci.com/environment/grumpy-fish-red-sea/ #weirdscience #sciencefacts…
From Popular Science. Some Cybertruck owners are complaining that their tires are wearing out quickly — like very, very quickly. One user reported that he’s nearing the end of his tread after just 6,000 miles of summer street and highway driving. The Cybertruck weighs nearly 7,000lbs / 3,000kg, so its tires are going to grind…
From Popular Science. Archaeologists in Chelm, Poland have unearthed the remains of a 13th century child who was suspected of becoming a vampire after burial — including a torso weighed down by rocks and a severed head. #vampire #science #weirdscience #weird #archaelogy
From Popular Science. A lobster found off the coast of New Hampshire has a "cotton candy" coloring so rare that it’s estimated to exist at a rate of just 1 in 100 million. "One in 100 million cotton candy lobster caught in New Hampshire," Popular Science: https://www.popsci.com/science/cotton-candy-lobster/ #science #sciencefacts #weird #lobster #amazing
From Popular Science. Tartrazine, commonly called Yellow 5, is a dye that was discovered in the 1880s. It’s been used for food and cosmetics for generations… but it turns out that it can change the refractive index of water to allow us to see through mice and to expose their internal organs. "The dye in…
From Popular Science. The 1980s cemented the role of the home video game console. By the early 1990s, gamers wanted to take their experience to the next level by harnessing physics and haptic feedback into a wearable gaming vest called the Aura Interactor… or did they?! The lure of cymatics and the excitement of 90s…
From Popular Science. For the first time, geologists have taken a sample of Earth’s mantle rock — and it not only contains some surprises, but may offer a glimpse into how life developed. “First rocks recovered from Earth’s mantle”: https://www.popsci.com/science/earth-mantle-rocks/ #science #sciencefacts #geology #earth
From Popular Science. The InSight lander has used seismic wave analysis to discover a massive reservoir of liquid water miles under the surface of Mars. We can’t drill down yet, but when we can, it may be critical to sustaining life on the Red Planet. #mars #space #science #spaceexploration