"... Over the last year, we at MinuteEarth and MinutePhysics have had the privilege of working with NASA's Heliophysics Education Activation Team make a series of videos about the awesomeness of solar... continue reading
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In this video, we explore the fascinating story of the Brennan Monorail, an innovative train from the early 1900s designed by Louis Brennan. This monorail defied conventional physics by balancing on a... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 months ago • 83 views • 8:33Magnetohydrodynamic thrust uses no moving parts in order to accelerate water. It has been known for half a century, but it may be possible that we're only now beginning to explore it for use in Marine... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 months 1 week ago • 275 views • 12:11"A truly X-cellent and X-ceptional video… ... Despite being one of the rarest letters in English, the letter X is everywhere. We sign letters with it, we rate movies with it, we name all sorts of things... continue reading
posted by ant 7 months 4 weeks ago • 1 view • 11:39"The Mario Brothers movie is almost here, and we're going to run down Mario's 40 year history for you! From dodging Donkey Kong's barrels to exploring the universe with a possessed cap--this is the full... continue reading
posted by ant 1 year 1 month 1 week ago • 5 views • 9:14"Flashback to the holiday season of 2001. After years of filming, the first film in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, is due to hit theaters, and expectations... continue reading
posted by ant 1 year 3 months ago • 4 views • 24:24"Discover how alcohol impacts your body’s processes and causes hangovers, and find out what causes the most common hangover symptoms. The molecule responsible for hangovers is ethanol, which we colloquially... continue reading
posted by ant 1 year 4 months 2 weeks ago • 4 views • 4:52MBARI sustained our commitment to ocean exploration and discovery in 2021. The year brought more challenges, but exploring our big, blue backyard always inspires awe and wonder—and curiosity about the... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 378 views • 3:16In this video we dive deep into some of the more glaring errors in the design of Champlain Towers South and explore the most likely origin of the collapse from a structural engineering perspective. The
posted by BSR 2 years 9 months ago • 17 views • 41:17In the debut episode of the Logistics of D-Day we explore the logic and planning that resulted in Normandy being chosen as the location for the largest amphibious invasion in the history of human kind. -yt
posted by eric3579 4 years 1 week ago • 803 views • 14:54NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft has discovered “layers” and “rifts” in the electrically charged part of the upper atmosphere (the ionosphere) of Mars. The phenomenon... continue reading
posted by eric3579 4 years 3 months 1 week ago • 341 views • 2:19In a quiet corner of Kent State University, scientists are exploring innovative ways to study the past. We joined our friends at Gizmodo to visit Kent State University's Experimental Archaeology lab, where... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 45 views • 7:30YouTube description: We know these cute little water bears can survive the vacuum of space but are they actually immortal? We'll explore that and other misconceptions about tardigrades in this week's... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 356 views • 12:50YouTube description: 1.8 billion years ago, a cell ate another cell, but it didn't digest it, and without that happening, we would not exist. This week we explore the origins of eukaryotic cells and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 335 views • 10:00In this episode of "What Makes This Song Great?" we explore the music of RUSH.
posted by BSR 5 years 3 weeks ago • 27 views • 14:01YouTube description: Less than 2 percent of the ocean floor has been explored by scientists. “Every time we go to the deep sea, we find new species of organisms,” explains geobiologist Victoria... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 129 views • 9:46We talked to the co-founder of Tesla, JB Straubel, about why giant batteries are crucial to the future of power grids everywhere. Batteries are becoming more useful at powering bigger things like bikes,... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 9 months ago • 498 views • 6:15YouTube description: Ferrofluid is a bizarre, NASA-engineered material that was created for spaceships but never used. In this “lab practical” video, we’ll put ferrofluid through its paces, and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 674 views • 4:26We explore the roles that robots are starting to play in construction and look at how they will affect our industry in the future. Source: The B1M
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 19 views • 5:48YouTube description: Reggaeton is one of the most popular music genres in the world. Its history is rooted in diaspora migration, censorship, poverty and the reclaiming of Afro-Caribbean identity. We... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 704 views • 10:49