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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. 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 the power of modern forensics. When Kaspar Hauser arrived, he could…
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
From Popular Science. One of the most consequential leaps in science and technology etched itself in the annals of military history before changing politics and elections forever. The ‘Walkie-Talkie-Lookie’ combined the power of radio waves with film. The result? Real-time audio-visuals beamed to home televisions, and doing it all with portability – in a way…
From Popular Science. Bio-hybrid Robots that contain living tissue for locomotion and sensing are already here — but are we paying enough attention to the ethics? #science #technology #robotics
From Popular Science. The Sonic Hedgehog protein (SHH) is an integral part of making your body what it is… seriously. Sonic Hedgehog plays a role in forming your brain, central nervous system, lungs, digits, and limbs — because you need limbs when you gotta go fast. And the inhibitor to the Sonic Hedgehog protein? Robotnikinin.…
From Popular Science. Popular Science Store: https://store.popsci.com/ Popular Science Prints: https://popularscienceprints.com/ Use code YOUTUBE for 10% off. Journeying down the path of vintage tech and retro computers is a good time even when it’s full of twists and turns… which it always is. But what happens when you’ve got a proto-portable computer that fits in…
From Popular Science. We know that many different animals have shockingly high levels of intelligence — but how many truly have consciousness? A group of scientists and academics thinks that it just might be… all of them. "The ‘smart’ animal club keeps getting bigger," Popular Science: https://www.popsci.com/environment/smartest-animals/ #science #sciencefacts #animalshorts #animals
From Popular Science. Joby Aviation just completed a 535 Mile test flight with their electric vertical landing and takeoff vehicle or eVTOL modified with hydrogen fuel cells to extend its range. #science #hydrogen #airtaxi #aviation
From Popular Science. It turns out adult cats make pies or biscuits with their front paws as a behavior directly linked to feeding as kittens. The kneading motion stimulates their mother’s mammary glands to produce milk. As the kittens suckle, the mother releases the Feline Appeasing Pheromone also known as FAP which relaxes her kittens…