It turns out that there are giant viruses that blur the line between life and death – and other viruses hunting them.

posted by Mordhaus 1 month 3 weeks ago • 78 views • 11:10

The human immune system is the most complex biological system we know, after the human brain, and yet, most of us never learn how it works. Or what it is. Your immune System consists of hundreds of tiny... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 months 2 weeks ago • 685 views • 10:48

From Youtube, "...66 million years ago, maybe on a Tuesday afternoon, life was the same as it had been the day before or a thousand years before or pretty much a million years before. Things were good... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 months 1 week ago • 302 views • 12:02

From Youtube, "Black holes are the most powerful and extreme things in the universe and they are wildly weird and complicated. What would happen if you fell inside one and what are they really?"

posted by w1ndex 6 months ago • 227 views • 12:15

From Youtube, "Let us explore the scientific mystery of what would happen to you if Earth suddenly turned into gold! The “Midaspocalypse”, based on the ancient tale of King Midas who was cursed so... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 7 months 3 weeks ago • 74 views • 9:17

From Youtube, "The night sky seems peaceful and orderly. But in reality, stars are careening through the galaxy at speeds of hundreds of thousands of kilometers per hour. Not bound by static formations... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 10 months 4 weeks ago • 325 views • 9:46

From Youtube, "In and out, in and out. Staying alive is about doing things. This very second, your cells are combusting glucose molecules with oxygen to make energy available, which keeps you alive for... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 11 months 2 weeks ago • 323 views • 11:05

From Youtube, "By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year.... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 12 months ago • 501 views • 9:10

From YT: This video is part of a series about climate change supported by Breakthrough Energy – a coalition founded by Bill Gates, that is working to expand clean-energy investment and support the innovations... continue reading

posted by Nephelimdream 1 year 3 weeks ago • 39 views • 10:07

From Youtube, "Deep in tropical jungles lie floating kingdoms ruled by beautiful and deadly masters: They are sort of the high elves of the ant kingdoms: Talented architects that create castles and city... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 year 1 month 3 weeks ago • 88 views • 9:04

From Youtube, "The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 year 2 months 3 weeks ago • 210 views • 11:41

From Youtube, "Humans are proud of a lot of things, from particle accelerators, to poetry to pokemon. All of them made possible because of something humans value extremely highly: intelligence."

posted by w1ndex 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago • 70 views • 9:45

From Youtube, "This video is part of a series about climate change supported by Breakthrough Energy – a coalition founded by Bill Gates, that is working to expand clean-energy investment and support... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago • 79 views • 10:36

From Youtube, "The sun. Smooth and round and peaceful. Except when it suddenly vomits radiation and plasma in random directions. These solar flares and coronal mass ejections, or CMEs can hit earth and... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 year 4 months 3 weeks ago • 135 views • 9:43

From Youtube, "At this very second, you are on a narrow ledge between life and death. You probably don’t feel it, but there is an incredible amount of activity going on inside you. And this activity... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 year 5 months 2 weeks ago • 547 views • 11:31

From Youtube, "Neutron stars are one of the most extreme and violent things in the universe. Giant atomic nuclei, only a few kilometers in diameter but as massive as stars. And they owe their existence... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 year 11 months 3 weeks ago • 750 views • 8:41

From Youtube, "In nearly every corner of the Earth, ants wage war against each other. Their weapons are what nature gave them. Some have strong armour, deadly stingers or sharp mandibles. And then there... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 2 years 4 weeks ago • 462 views • 9:23