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Scientists from UVM and Tufts repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. More: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVG8wptOOI https://youtu.be/XLI7VtjgOyk ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 171 views • 57 secsThe Ondophone - the dream of a sound that never was... At least for now, there might be a future where the Ondophone will come to real life. In this weeks episode we are taking a closer look at the first... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 4 months 1 week ago • 41 views • 17:11"Grover is getting cold out in the snow and seeks Kermits help on how he can get warm..."
posted by ant 4 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 17 views • 4:50Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things. To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 877 views • 3:16"There's a scientific reason behind your 'second stomach.' ... How is it that, after stuffing ourselves full at dinner, we somehow find room to eat again once dessert comes around? Turns out, the thing... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 5 months 1 week ago • 234 views • 4:15YouTube description: It sounds ridiculous, but it's true. At the Cooper Union Foundation Building in New York, there's the world's first elevator shaft: constructed four years before the safety elevator... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 731 views • 5:10Why do all the pictures you take underwater look blandly blue-green? The answer has to do with how light travels through water. Derya Akkaynak, an oceangoing engineer, has figured out a way to recover... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,586 views • 3:56YouTube description: There’s no telling what you can do when you put your mind to it. Take Richard Hull, he built a small-scale fusion reactor—in a shed, in his backyard. A retired electronics engineer,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 6 months ago • 1,462 views • 3:32Texas dad Jeffrey Younger has been fighting in the courts to stop his ex-wife from gender "transitioning" their 7-year-old son, James. On October 24, 2019, Dallas Judge Kim Cooks ruled to allow Younger... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 4 years 6 months 1 week ago • 9 views • 10:48YouTube description: Hi :) I’m a student in Network & Systems Engineering (Robots, networks and programming and stuff) and I built a dinosaur in my spare time. I got the idea in my head, thought... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 1,278 views • 2:37YouTube description: It's an often told story about Apollo 12 getting struck by lightning, crippling the command module in flight and John Aaron in mission control figuring out the exact switch to flip... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 261 views • 13:55While testifying before the House Financial Services Committee, comedian Hasan Minhaj called out members of Congress for the student loan crisis by comparing current tuition costs to what they originally... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 470 views • 3:05YouTube description: Let's journey deep into the cells themselves to take a look at some of the structures that keep cells alive and others that do... something... that we'll figure out someday... probably.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 166 views • 11:31YouTube description: As a quadriplegic, Álvaro Silberstein spent years believing he would never be able to visit Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park. Then, he discovered a wheelchair designed... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 181 views • 2:57YouTube description: After landing on the Moon, what ever happened to the Lunar Ascent Modules? Turns out they were crashed onto the moon for Science! Here are all the known crash sites of the LM... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 273 views • 12:58https://youtu.be/PZoaKzEXzi8 It's time to meet a single-celled organism that is bigger than a tardigrade! We'll learn how Stentors reproduce, why they look like trumpets, and why some of them are just SO BLUE! ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months ago • 599 views • 9:49YouTube description: I got to see an Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) up close and personal at the Monterey Bay Aquarium recently and I fell in love. These things are the superlative of superlatives. They... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months ago • 1,838 views • 3:58YouTube description: Thanks to all the Dunedin Railways team! You can find out more about them here: https://www.dunedinrailways.co.nz/ Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin) I'm at http://tomscott.com ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 11 months ago • 338 views • 2:27YouTube description: Kerosene Creek is a natural hot spring near Rotorua, on the North Island of New Zealand. And there have been official warnings for years: don't put your head under water. It turns... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years ago • 423 views • 3:42