YouTube description: Death is inevitable and mysterious, even in the microcosmos. Stentors, heliozoans, and yes, even tardigrades, experience death in many different ways.... continue reading
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YouTube 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 1 week 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 1 week ago • 181 views • 2:57YouTube description: Aerosparx are a British aerobatics team that perform displays with fireworks attached to their wings. This is how they do it. More about Aerosparx: http://www.aerosparx.com/ ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 1 week ago • 300 views • 6:32YouTube description: We owe so much to diatoms! They help us make beer, paint, and kitty litter, and they're responsible for some of the air you're breathing right now!... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 834 views • 7:44YouTube description: It's been a decade since the first hybrid victory in F1, at the 2009 Hungarian GP. How has hybrid technology evolved since then? Andy Cowell, Managing Director of Mercedes-AMG High... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 629 views • 4:21YouTube description: Discover what happened when an RAF pilot ejected from his Harrier GR.1 jump jet over West Germany in 1971 - it made a break for the East German border!... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months ago • 685 views • 3:52YouTube 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 ago • 356 views • 12:50YouTube description: This footage is from inside the kerosene tank in the S-1 first stage of SA-5, the fifth Saturn 1 launch. This mission was the first orbital Saturn launch, and the first flight of... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months ago • 376 views • 1:49YouTube 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 ago • 273 views • 12:58YouTube description: To prepare him for landing the lunar module, Neil Armstrong practiced on a training vehicle, right here on Earth. It was designed to replicate flying within a gravitational pull... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 462 views • 2:14YouTube description: Continuing the series on the power grid by diving deeper into the engineering of large-scale electricity generation.
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 579 views • 9:59YouTube 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 1 week ago • 335 views • 10:00YouTube description: A decade ago, engineers found the Humber Bridge had the same problem as many of the world's suspension bridges: unexpectedly fast corrosion. Here's how they fixed it, and how they're... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 941 views • 5:05YouTube description: Something about the Apollo missions always confused me, sure, the step off of the lunar lander’s 91 cm footpad was a small step, but the step just before that was actually enormous! ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 483 views • 14:48YouTube description: Perhaps the most dramatic moment of Apollo 11's mission to the moon was when the Eagle began its final descent to the lunar surface and the Apollo Guidance Computer became overloaded.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 766 views • 7:18YouTube description: People get nervous when they see Märten Ajne ice skating. He intentionally skates on extremely thin ice. Ajne has pursued this dangerous hobby for 40 years and has skated on more... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 860 views • 2:34YouTube description: Bob Ross painted more than 1,000 landscapes for his television show — so why are they so hard to find? Solving one of the internet’s favorite little mysteries.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 434 views • 10:50YouTube description: At night, these parasites crawl onto your bed, bite you and suck your blood. Then they find a nearby hideout where they leave disgusting telltale signs. But these pests have an... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 1,273 views • 4:22YouTube description: Making a faster plane takes more than building better engines and structures. To go supersonic, engineers had to solve hundreds of problems -- including ditching one of the biggest... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 537 views • 4:36