In the wilderness of New Caledonia, scientists have discovered a living organism with the largest genome in the world. New research shows that the genome size of this fork fern species is estimated to... continue reading
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Nasa's take on a popular question, driven by the Discover supercomputer. There are multiple runthroughs, covering first the simple video then a full explanation, a deep dive into some of the details,... continue reading
posted by noims 1 month ago • 73 views • 4:20The endless expanse of the ocean’s midnight zone offers plenty of room to stretch out. Here, some animals can grow to great lengths. Siphonophores are gelatinous animals composed of specialized parts... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 months 4 weeks ago • 128 views • 3:36Biologists in New Zealand have found around 100 new species after exploring a rift some 5 kilometers beneath the sea. The organisms include some that scientists can't even identify, as well as a strange... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 months ago • 232 views • 2:07SKELETON PANDA SEA SQUIRT: A new species of sea creature that has a distinctive skeleton-like body structure and black spots that resemble a panda has been discovered in Japan. The "skeleton panda sea... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 months ago • 42 views • 36 secsPlimpton 322 is the name given to a 3,800-year-old clay tablet discovered in Iraq in the early 20th Century by archeologist Edgar J Banks, the man believed to have inspired Indiana Jones. Over time this... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 months 4 weeks ago • 49 views • 4:14Accidentally filming triboluminescence by shooting two air cannons loaded with glass spheres directly at each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboluminescence
posted by newtboy 4 months 1 week ago • 122 views • 22:27Scientists discover a new species lurking in the depths of the southern ocean. This is the Antarctic Strawberry Feather Star. Researchers describe it as a large (8”) creature with 20 arms.
posted by newtboy 9 months 3 weeks ago • 93 views • 37 secsYouTube description: In 2015, what we knew about Iron Age shields all changed. And it changed in a field in Leicester... Iron Age Curator Sophia Adams explains the construction of the first organic... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 11 months 3 weeks ago • 144 views • 15:29"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 5 months 1 week ago • 4 views • 4:52Brian Cox - Solving The Fermi Paradox: Intelligent Alien Life in Our Galaxy Brian Cox explains the details behind the Fermi Paradox and why we haven't yet found intelligent alien life. The more interesting... continue reading
posted by BSR 1 year 5 months 1 week ago • 74 views • 10:18Scientists Discover Superworm Eats Plastic | Zophobas Morio 243,647 views Jun 26, 2022 Australian scientists have found the Zophobas morio - commonly known as the Superworm - can survive eating only... continue reading
posted by Oxen_Morale 1 year 10 months ago • 195 views • 10:13Scientists have long been marveled by the secrets of the Universe. However, the more they discover, the much more they realize they haven't even started scratching the surface! Much of the limitation... continue reading
posted by BSR 2 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 48 views • 10:32From Youtube, "CREDITS: This video was made in collaboration with Benedikt Pleyer, who is a gifted microscopist and has a wonderful contagious passion for discovering the incredible worlds that exist... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 4 months 1 week ago • 276 views • 11:43YT: Discover the world’s largest organism: Pando, an enormous and ancient quaking aspen, and find out how it became so huge.
posted by Zawash 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,029 views • 6:28"Not every yellow bloom ― or fluffy white globe ― taking over your backyard is a dandelion. Some of them are close relatives called catsears. But both of them have a little secret. To tell them apart... continue reading
posted by ant 3 years 9 months 1 week ago • 82 views • 4:50Red sprites, secondary jets and newly discovered green afterglow called "ghosts" triggered by red sprites. A dozen vibrant red sprites were recorded on this evening and only two events had the green afterglow.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 985 views • 2:32Each season has its own distinctive flowers, and in Japan early May sees the wisteria blossom. Many people travel at that time to see fine examples of wisteria, a spreading vine that can be arranged over... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years ago • 388 views • 4:28Writing in the Geophysical Research Letters, NASA says a review of Voyager 2’s old data from 1986 showed that Uranus vented a giant blob of gas into space. This pocket of ionized gas, a plasma structure... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,195 views • 6:40NASA’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 4 months 1 week ago • 341 views • 2:19