March 19, 2026
From World Science Festival.
Mussels hold tight, but let go with ease
From Science Magazine. Mussels have strong filaments called byssal threads to help them stick to rocky surfaces with surprising strength, to withstand the crashing waves. When needed, the bivalves can also release these threads with seemingly little effort. Deeper investigation and imaging revealed that friction between cilia in the living tissue and the nonliving byssal…
Human eyes have never seen the Sun’s south pole—until now
From Science Magazine. Despite decades of solar astronomy, neither robotic nor human eyes had ever seen the Sun’s polar regions. That is, until March 2025, when the Solar Orbiter took the first clear pictures of the Sun’s south pole from an angle of 15° below the solar equator. From that angle, the orbiter’s three instruments…
Is infinity a meaningless output?#infinity #briangreene
From World Science Festival.
This Donut Lab Battery Breakthrough Drama is Wild…
From Dr Ben Miles. Check out shortform and get a FREE trial and $50 OFF the annual plan! at https://shortform.com/drben If you’ve been on the internet this past month, you’ve probably heard about Donut Labs… This video breaks down what they’ve shown so far and looked at the bigger question: what happens when extraordinary claims…
Did Ancient Storms Kill These Pterosaurs?
From PBS Eons. Use code EONS10 for 10% off → https://bit.ly/4trQPKL. The Book: The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization: survival & rebuilding strategies revealed. At the Solnhofen formation in Germany, over 500 fossils of 15 pterosaur species have been found. But it might be hiding a dark secret, one that’s been massively distorting our view…
Understanding the universe and its non-obvious patterns. #briangreene
From World Science Festival.
Triumph of calculation helps resolve particle mystery
From Science Magazine. For decades, particle physicists have longed for something—anything—their prevailing theory, the standard model, cannot explain. Last June, perhaps the most tantalizing sign of a new mystery vanished when a long-running experiment reported that, contrary to its earlier claims, a particle called the muon was not more magnetic than the standard model predicts.…
This octopus grew a ninth arm—which soon developed a mind of its own
From Science Magazine. When an octopus injures an arm, the appendage can split in two, giving the cephalopod an extra limb. But it’s long been unclear just how functional this ninth arm is, or how octopuses gradually accustom themselves to reusing the arm. In 2025, the first long-term observation of one of the animals in…
Bees learn to dance
From Science Magazine. The honey bee waggle dance communicates information about resource location from a foraging worker to nestmates. Research in Science shows that this complex dance is, in part, learned by young bees as they observe more experienced bees. Learn more: https://scim.ag/40qMQkk CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) ERIC NERI; (MUSIC) PODINGTON BEAR; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) K. MCLEAN/SCIENCE #Bees…
These Lizards Beat Extinction
From PBS Eons. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Sarah Ellis, tara thara, Mary Sammartino , Nate Chisholm, Yibrán Arumir,…
When space and time changed forever. #einstein #briangreene #specialrelativity
From World Science Festival.
What’s the problem with quantum measurement? #quantum
From World Science Festival.
The Crisis at the Edge of a Black Hole | World Science Festival
From World Science Festival. Brian Greene sits down with theoretical physicist Rafael Bousso to explore some of the deepest puzzles in modern physics. Their conversation centers on the black hole information paradox, one of the most important challenges in theoretical physics. If quantum mechanics says information can never be destroyed, how can black holes, once…
How do busy bees avoid overheating from flying?
From Science Magazine. Bumble bees may look clumsy and goofy hovering above a flower, but don’t be deceived: They’re among the hot rods of the insect world and able to fly 22 kilometers per hour. Even while hovering, their powerful wing muscles generate a lot of heat. Like any high-performance vehicle, the bees have ways…
Why was cosmic acceleration such a surprise? #briangreene #space #cosmos
From World Science Festival.
Turning Vodka Into Toilet Paper (Reverse Nilered)
From The Thought Emporium . Want to restore the planet’s ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 100 people to join Planet Wild with my code EMPORIUM1 will get the first month for free on me: https://planetwild.com/r/thoughtemporium/join If you want to get to know them better first, check out their mission rewilding…
What does Einstein’s general relativity do? #briangreene #einstein #generalrelativity
From World Science Festival.
Where does lan McEwan spark inspiration for his novels? #ianmcewan #briangreene #writing #novelist
From World Science Festival.
How Brawn Led to Brains
From PBS Eons. While we often think of brains as some kind of triumph over brawn, it turns out that those two things might not be mutually exclusive, and in fact, they’ve been linked for far longer than we might imagine. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station,…
Why Do Spinning Things Do This? – Smarter Every Day 312
From SmarterEveryDay. WeeEEeeee!!! Thanks for considering joining the Smarter Every Day sticker team, now’s a good time! (we’re about to send them out) 👉 https://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday 👈 ⇊ Click below for more links! ⇊ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tweet Ideas to me at: Tweets by smartereveryday Smarter Every Day on Patreon http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Ambiance, audio…
This Wasp Isn’t a Wasp
From PBS Eons. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Nquiztor, lyric1981, SKS PHD, Eric Edwards, Jennifer Courtemanche, Steve Hill, Eric…
Were threaded comments on social media the beginning of the end of democracy?#jonathanhaidt
From World Science Festival.
Can something be in two places at once?#physics #electrons #briangreene
From World Science Festival.
What is special about string theory? #physics #stringtheory #briangreene #edwardwitten
From World Science Festival.
Top Science Advances of 2025 – Roundup Stream
From DoS – Domain of Science. Here’s a roundup of all the science advanced of 2025 from space, physics, nuclear fusion, quantum computing, materials science, engineering, 3d printing, chemistry, palaeontology, anthropology, biology, medicine, climate change, environment, AI and maths Wikipedia science 2025 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_in_science Quanta Physics 2025 video https://youtu.be/CPoQkE9KaAY?si=Vmy4JDql5uD2Wx_A Quanta Math 2025 video https://youtu.be/hRpcWpAeWng?si=MnFjCOHnDXZOPcBn Shoutout to…
Top Science Advances of 2025 – Roundup Stream
From DoS – Domain of Science. Here’s a roundup of all the science advanced of 2025 from physics, chemistry, biology and maths
Why is it so hard to put gravity together with quantum mechanics? #gravity #quantummechanics
From World Science Festival.
The Complete Map of All 88 Constellations
From DoS – Domain of Science. Every Constellation In the Sky. Get yourself both a 30-day free trial and 20% off a Brilliant premium subscription here: https://brilliant.org/dos/ I wanted to learn all the constellations so I drew them all, and here they are, all 88 constellations, where they sit in the night sky and the…
When a Tiny Land Bridge Triggered an Ice Age
From PBS Eons. To try everything Brilliant has to offer, visit https://brilliant.org/eons On land, the Isthmus of Panama kicked off possibly the greatest natural experiment in the history of life on Earth. In the water, this narrow strip of land did something completely different: it divided. And that division would have a much bigger effect…
We Found T-Rex’s Lost Ancestor!
From PBS Eons. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Nquiztor, lyric1981, SKS PHD, Eric Edwards, Jennifer Courtemanche, Steve Hill, Eric…
Stone Age or Bone Age
From PBS Eons. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Perseus Bluejay, Mary Sammartino , Hugo van den Hoek, Melodie Chen-Glasser,…
How Chewing May Have Beat Extinction
From PBS Eons. Help understand what you enjoy and what you would want to see us make more of: https://to.pbs.org/2025SurveyEons 66 million years ago, after an asteroid slammed into the Earth and wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs, the world became a dark wasteland. But among the survivors were two distantly-related groups of animals that, on…
Acoustic Radiometer spins in 130dB sound, clockwise and counter-clockwise depending on sound pattern
From Applied Science. Demonstration of a rotor that is turned by sound pressure. It can spin either direction depending on what type and pattern of sound is applied. I also test different gases (hydrogen, sulfur hexafluoride, carbon dioxide, and helium) in addition to air at different pressures. Dan Russell’s video of the radiometer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGLFJzFt-G4 Academic…
Mesozoic Mammals Were Drab
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How We Figured Out an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs
From PBS Eons. To try everything Brilliant has to offer, visit https://brilliant.org/eons 66 million years ago a giant space rock crashed into our planet and killed the dinosaurs. In the span of just four decades, we’ve gone from not knowing there was a space rock at all to knowing exactly where that planet-killer came from.…
Refueling a NUCLEAR REACTOR – Smarter Every Day 311
From SmarterEveryDay. You can try AnyDesk for free. It’s good. https://anydesk.com/smarter http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Get Email Updates: https://www.smartereveryday.com/email Sticker Team!: http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Click here if you’re interested in subscribing: http://bit.ly/Subscribe2SED ⇊ Click below for more links! ⇊ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION Learn more about the the Browns Ferry Plant at the Tennessee Valley Authority: https://www.tva.com/energy/our-power-system/nuclear/browns-ferry-nuclear-plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority Here’s a…
Optical diffraction patterns and almost-holograms made with a MOPA laser engraving machine
From Applied Science. I use a Cloudray MOPA fiber laser to make diffraction gratings, multi-color images from bitmaps, and almost-holograms on stainless steel sheets. I inspect the gratings with an electron microscope, and also create images made from diffraction grating "pixels" where each pixel has controllable pitch and angle. Machine featured in the video: Cloudray…
Pompeii Changed How I Think About The Roman Empire – Smarter Every Day 310
From SmarterEveryDay. You can try AnyDesk for free. It’s good. https://anydesk.com/smarter http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Get Email Updates: https://www.smartereveryday.com/email A big thank you to our guide, Ciro. We paid full price for the tour, and are grateful he and his father Gaetano agreed to let me film and share a bit of what we learned. (The video was…
The Fascinating Map of Fungi
From DoS – Domain of Science. The Fascinating World of Fungi. Get yourself 20% off a Brilliant premium subscription here: https://brilliant.org/dos/ In this map of fungi we learn everything we can about fungi in about 20 minutes. They are hugely underappreciated as they are an entire kingdom of life, as rich as plants and animals,…
My Computer Update
From Smarter Every Day 2. Thanks Puget Systems for new editing machines! Checkout system options here: https://hubs.ly/Q03vxZ4V0 Here’s the original behind the scenes video: https://www.pugetsystems.com/press/behind-the-scenes-at-puget-systems-1306/
Smarter Scrubber Update
From Smarter Every Day 2. https://smarterscrubber.com We’re overwhelmed and working as quickly as we can. Thank you for your patience!
X-ray backscatter with compressed sensing algorithm
From Applied Science. I built an X-ray backscatter imaging system that uses compressed sensing to reconstruct full images from random samples. Original inspiration for this project: https://web.archive.org/web/20180630083729/http://www.pyrunner.com/weblog/2016/05/26/compressed-sensing-python/ Github: https://github.com/benkrasnow/Xray_backscatter_compressed_sensing/ Original Applied Science X-ray backscatter video: Github for Source Ray X-ray tube interface documentation: https://github.com/andrewgomella/sri Steve Brunton’s introduction to compressed sensing: Nathan Kutz’s video on compressed…
I Went Into a Nuclear Plant and It Changed How I Think About Radiation – Smarter Every Day 309
From SmarterEveryDay. KiwiCo has been great for my family. To get 50% off your first monthly crate go to https://kiwico.com/smarter and check it out. I believe you’ll really enjoy the kids’ reaction to it! Click here if you’re interested in subscribing: http://bit.ly/Subscribe2SED ⇊ Click below for more links! ⇊ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION Learn more…
I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) – Smarter Every Day 308
From SmarterEveryDay. Get a Smarter Scrubber Here: http://smarterscrubber.com Interested in Wholesale, or helping us tell the story? Here’s a link: https://forms.gle/XFrLTa5b8kxSvPnu8 I would like to thank the Patrons of Smarter Every Day. They knew about this project early and helped make it happen. http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday John is a great Dad and a good dude. Check out…
Iron nitride permanent magnets made with DIY ball mill and tested with DIY magnetometer
From Applied Science. I show the process of making iron nitride permanent magnets by ball milling ammonium nitrate and iron powder. Some researchers think that the theoretical performance limit of iron nitride magnets is higher than neodymium iron boron, but so far, no one has been able to show this. Main paper that I used:…
Welding visualization system uses intense pulsed lighting to outshine electric arc, laser cutter
From Applied Science. Check out the welding visualization system from Kron Technologies here: https://www.krontech.ca/product/helios/ Applied Science video showing underwater laser cutting of ceramic and quartz sheets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxXEI0Ce6C0 Support Applied Science on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/AppliedScience
The Unsolved Mystery of Impact Flashes – Smarter Every Day 307
From SmarterEveryDay. A big thanks to Henson for sponsoring this video. Check them out at http://hensonshaving.com/smarter (Make sure the 100 pack is in your cart to get them for free.) Want to get an email when I upload? https://www.smartereveryday.com/email-list A big thanks to Brett from How Ridiculous and Gavin from The Slow Mo Guys https://www.youtube.com/@howridiculous…
Dramatically improve microscope resolution with an LED array and Fourier Ptychography
From Applied Science. A recently developed computational imaging technique combines hundreds of low resolution images into one super high resolution image that seems to exceed the optical resolution limit. This technique uses carefully positioned LEDs to measure spatial frequencies and reconstruct this information into a single image. Github for this video: https://github.com/benkrasnow/Fourier-ptycography Waller Lab github:…
What Has Changed Over 10 Years…… (Not Forgotten Update) Smarter Every Day 2
From Smarter Every Day 2. The 2 things to do (If you’re down to help): 1. Vote for Not Forgotten: https://projectforawesome.com/watch?v=tNlmWBTOxtg 2. Support Not Forgotten on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/notforgotten Direct donations may be made here: https://notforgotten.kindful.com/ Read Not Forgotten’s Mission statement here: http://notforgotten.org/about/
f/0.38 camera lens made with oil immersion microscope objective
From Applied Science. I removed the protective glass from a CMOS image sensor, and used optical immersion oil to couple the bare image sensor to a 40X NA=1.3 microscope objective. f/0.7 Zeiss lens described in amazing detail: http://www.marcocavina.com/omaggio_a_kubrick.htm Fake f/0.33 Zeiss lens: https://petapixel.com/2013/08/06/carl-zeiss-super-q-gigantar-40mm-f0-33-the-fastest-lens-ever-made/ Camera and sensor that I used: https://www.ids-imaging.us/store_us/products/cameras/ui-5584le-rev-1-2.html https://www.onsemi.com/products/sensors/image-sensors/mt9p006?pdf= Conversion from f/# to…
I Explored MORE OF the World’s First Nuclear Power Plant (and How It Works) Smarter Every Day 306B
From Smarter Every Day 2. Try AnyDesk for FREE! It’s good. https://anydesk.com/smarter Get Email Updates: https://www.smartereveryday.com/email-list Click here if Main Channel Video: https://youtu.be/JVROsxtjoCw ⇊ Click below for more links! ⇊ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION Have a suggestion or an offer for the Smarter Every Day Nuclear Series? https://www.smartereveryday.com/manufacturing Checkout Idaho National Laboratory: https://inl.gov/ Go see…
I Explored the World’s First Nuclear Power Plant (and How It Works) – Smarter Every Day 306
From SmarterEveryDay. You can try AnyDesk for free. It’s good. https://anydesk.com/smarter Get Email Updates: https://www.smartereveryday.com/email Second Channel Video: ⇊ Click below for more links! ⇊ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Have a suggestion or an offer for the Smarter Every Day Nuclear Series? Form: https://www.smartereveryday.com/manufacturing GET SMARTER SECTION Checkout Idaho National Laboratory: https://inl.gov/ Go see EBR-1 https://inl.gov/ebr/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Breeder_Reactor_I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~…
Behind The Scenes at MVP Disc Sports – (Disc Golf Disc Factory LONG CUT) – Smarter Every Day 301B
From Smarter Every Day 2. Smarter Every Day on Patreon https://patreon.com/smartereveryday The coolest part about this is that Brad and Chad didn’t ask me to say anything in particular…. they partner with wholesale dealers so you should be able to find them at your local disc golf store. If you’d like to explore what they…
Mutarotation: a sugar that spontaneously changes from sweet to bitter
From Applied Science. Simple sugars can exist in multiple molecular conformations, some of which have different tastes and optical properties. Steve Mould’s video on optical rotation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=975r9a7FMqc Reaction’s video on Mexican Coke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY66qpMFOYo Research paper describing enzymatic synthesis of L-glucose: https://nopr.niscpr.res.in/bitstream/123456789/17714/1/JSIR%2061%285%29%20361-365.pdf D-mannose on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Micro-Ingredients-Mannose-Supplement-Soluble/dp/B01L2TFP1Q My crystals were almost entirely the sweet form, but it…
The Backwards Brain Tractor – Smarter Every Day 305
From SmarterEveryDay. I’m excited to send out this year’s stickers!! Click here to join the sticker team: 👉 https://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday 👈 Sign up for the SED Email List: https://www.smartereveryday.com/email-list Click here if you’re interested in subscribing: http://bit.ly/Subscribe2SED ⇊ Click below for more links! ⇊ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION An interesting thing happened while I was trying…
The Incredibly Unique Triple Barreled Pistol… – Smarter Every Day 304
From SmarterEveryDay. Get a Ridge Wallet! 👉👉 https://ridge.com/smarter 👈👈 Sign up for the SED Email List: https://www.smartereveryday.com/email-list Click here if you’re interested in subscribing: http://bit.ly/Subscribe2SED ⇊ Click below for more links! ⇊ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volley_gun ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tweet Ideas to me at: Tweets by smartereveryday Smarter Every Day on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SmarterEveryDay Smarter Every Day…
The Fascinating Map of Board Games
From DoS – Domain of Science. Mapping out all the different kinds of board games. To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/DOS/ or scan the QR code onscreen. You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. Get Stabbin’ in the Cabin, Map of Board games…
Live Interview from the ISS Cupola – Smarter Every Day 303
From SmarterEveryDay. A huge thanks to Don and Matt for their time! Thanks to Mission Control for making it happen!https://whoisinspace.com/ https://x.com/whoisinspace Click here if you’re interested in subscribing: http://bit.ly/Subscribe2SED ⇊ Click below for more links! ⇊ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I think you really would enjoy following these guys: One of the most mind blowing experiments I’ve ever…
Climbing Kilimanjaro – Smarter Every Day 302
From SmarterEveryDay. No Dumb Questions Episode – NDQ 187 "Songs of Ascent" https://www.nodumbquestions.fm/listen/2024/8/22/187-songs-of-ascent Brady’s Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTL4dj3Gx1o Checkout the Independent Media Initiative: https://www.theimi.co/ ⇊ Click below for more links! ⇊ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION We chose to climb with https://kiliwarriors.com/ They were very professional and a pleasure to work with. We didn’t work any kind of…