4 Ways Fractals Changed Tech Forever

From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. Be they in the form of Romanesco broccoli, or a poster of the Mandelbrot set, fractals sure look pretty. But that’s not all they’re good for. Since the 1980s, scientists and engineers…

WATCH NOW 🔴 : 8 HOURS of The Most RANDOM How It’s Made 🔀 | Science Channel

From Science Channel. Take a behind-the-scenes look at how a completely random mix of products is made, from gummy worms and crayons to wax figures, knives, car parts, pillows, and everything in between, in this 8-hour marathon. #HowItsMade #ScienceChannel Stream How It’s Made: https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/how-its-made About How It’s Made: Explore the fascinating world of how everyday…

Something Strange Is Happening to Raccoons

From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. You might have heard about a viral study claiming raccoons are domesticating themselves. There’s a lot more to the story, though, and it might help us understand what domestication is in…

The Bubonic Plague Is Older Than You Think

From SciShow. Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel. Get up to 55% OFF Here: https://bit.ly/SciShowMay Humanity’s relationship with the bubonic plague is over 5000 years old. That’s right, it didn’t just suddenly appear (and then disappear) during the infamous Black Death. In fact, you could still catch The Plague, today! Although…

The Plague Will Probably Return

From SciShow. Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel. Get up to 55% OFF Here: https://bit.ly/SciShowMay Humanity’s relationship with the bubonic plague is over 5000 years old. That’s right, it didn’t just suddenly appear (and then disappear) during the infamous Black Death. In fact, you could still catch The Plague, today! Although…

500-million-year-old fossil sheds light on origins of spiders and scorpions

From Science Magazine. Buried in a museum drawer for nearly 50 years, a fist-size fossil has handed paleontologists the evidence they’d been hunting for: unmistakable claws on one of the oldest known relatives of spiders and scorpions. Olivia Maule, a reporting intern at Science, explains. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4ns2N4y CREDITS: (IMAGES) LEROSEY-AUBRIL AND ORTEGA-HERNÁNDEZ/NATURE; (ANIMATION) MASATO…

The Universe’s Most Destructive Forces ☄️💥 | Space’s Deepest Secrets | Science Channel

From Science Channel. This collection explores the most destructive forces in the cosmos, from extinction-level asteroids to the incomprehensible power of black holes, and the volatile fury of our own sun. #ScienceChannel #SpacesDeepestSecrets About Space’s Deepest Secrets A few generations ago, traveling to the Moon was hard to imagine, and going beyond the Moon was…

Everyone On Earth Has The Same Commute.

From SciShow. Be kind to yourself this year. Using Zocdoc is free – visit our sponsor https://zocdoc.com/SciShow to find and instantly book an appointment with a top-rated, in-network doctor today. There’s a lot that unites us as humans. How much we sleep, how much we eat, how much we travel… wait, what? Yeah, turns out…

Humans Didn’t Make Dogs Weird

From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. Conventional wisdom holds that the huge variety of dogs is just the result of humans breeding them to be that way. But new research suggests that dogs have been weird from the…

Why 90-Year-Olds Get Less Cancer

From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. You might think your risk of cancer goes up as you get older, but that’s not completely true. Among the very oldest people, the risk of cancer actually goes down. Scientists…

How do sunbirds suck up nectar?

From Science Magazine. Butterflies suck—nectar. Walruses suck—clams. And most fishes suck everything they eat. But birds? Scientists had only seen a few examples, such as in pigeons, of drinking by suction. Now, researchers report that sunbirds use suction from their tongue to sip nectar. The find is the first example of any vertebrate drinking through…

WATCH NOW 🔴 Answering Extra-Terrestrial Questions | Through the Wormhole | Science Channel

From Science Channel. Examine the possibility of extraterrestrial life, from habitable worlds and alien biology to nonhuman intelligence, the origins of religious belief, and the prospect of life beyond Earth. #ScienceChannel #MorganFreeman Stream Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman: https://www.discoveryplus.com/gb/show/through-the-wormhole-with-morgan-freeman About Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman: Morgan Freeman and some of the sharpest scientists…

These Rocks Are Petrified Lightning

From SciShow. Subscribe to the SciShow Rocks Box this month to get 20% off your first Rocks Box for May to receive your own Fulgarite here! https://complexly.store/collections/frontpage Although they form in an instant when lightning strikes, fulgurites are critical clues to how the world changed over thousands of years. Hosted by: Reid Reimers (he/him) ———-…

Can the CIA really track your heartbeat from 60 km away?

From Veritasium. Is the CIA’s Ghost Murmur technology real? Sponsored by Ground News. Go to https://ground.news/Ve for 40% off the unlimited Vantage plan. If you’re looking for a molecular modelling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented where the atoms snap together magnetically – https://ve42.co/SnatomsV Sign up for the Veritasium newsletter for weekly science updates…

Can a quantum sensor detect your heartbeat from 60 km away?

From Veritasium. Is the CIA’s Ghost Murmur technology real? Sponsored by Ground News. Go to https://ground.news/Ve for 40% off the unlimited Vantage plan. If you’re looking for a molecular modelling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented where the atoms snap together magnetically – https://ve42.co/SnatomsV Sign up for the Veritasium newsletter for weekly science updates…

The ONE Disease That Smoking Can Help Treat

From SciShow. Smoking is bad. We know this. But… there’s one disease that seems to like it. As in, smokers are way less likely to get it. Here’s the weird story about why smoking can keep ulcerative colitis at bay, and how we’re using that knowledge to make a smoke-free treatment plan for UC. Hosted…