Learn how solar works and how a long time mystery power loss was finally understood and solved.

posted by eric3579 5 months 1 week ago • 1,257 views • 16:54

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

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 6 months ago • 346 views • 7:21

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) 1 year 6 months 2 weeks ago • 165 views • 11:31

YouTube 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) 1 year 7 months 3 weeks ago • 433 views • 10:50

YouTube description: Cheese is delicious, beloved by many, and a teeming mess of microbes. Which microbes, exactly, has long been a mystery, but modern DNA sequencing tech is allowing researchers to... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 1 week ago • 238 views • 6:38

Space and Time, you are the real MVPs

posted by w1ndex 2 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,868 views • 11:35

About 10 years ago, the news was packed with reports about something called colony collapse disorder — a mysterious phenomenon that involved the disappearance of enormous numbers of bees. Then, the news... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 519 views • 3:30

YT: In a field near Elberton, Georgia, USA, sit a set of mysterious standing stones: mysterious not because they're ancient, but because they were funded by someone anonymous in 1980, perhaps as a message... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 2 years 3 months 1 week ago • 397 views • 3:08

YouTube description In 1800s, miners began working in exposed deposits of mud near the town of Messel, Germany. They were extracting oil from the rock and along with the oil, they found beautifully... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 519 views • 8:34

YouTube description: For decades, one of the most abundant kinds of fossils on Earth, numbering in the millions of specimens, was a mystery to paleontologists. But geologists discovered that these mysterious... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 612 views • 7:00

Mr. Samuel J. Seymour, the last living eyewitness to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. was the mystery guest on the February 8, 1956 episode of the I've... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 2 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 11 views • 7:18

Go back in time with these NBC News archive clips from 1994 and 1995 when the "World Wide Web" and Internet were mere mysteries. Source: Today

posted by b4rringt0n 2 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 16 views • 2:12

The history of eating one's fellow man is rich with culinary tradition and innovation, carried on in no small part by Dr. Hannibal Lecter. In this pivotal scene, he gives a fellow killer a taste of his... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 4 months ago • 95 views • 6:42

Last year LIGO announced the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes. The science world went a little crazy. Only a few weeks ago a new rumour emerged: that LIGO had, for the... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 148 views • 15:51

‘I was stunned when the pieces started falling into place,’ recalls specialist Howard Dixon of the moment an unassuming folio of photographs was presented to him in a restaurant in Texas earlier this year. ... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,172 views • 3:34

YouTube: While we have long known about the existence of microbes — the tiny bacteria, fungi and archaea that live all around, on and in us — our full relationship has become one of the hottest topics... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 3 years 9 months ago • 13 views • 6:39

The mysterious YouTube algorithm. It's confused people for years, and will continue to do so. So why isn't YouTube more transparent? It used to be that they wouldn't tell anyone how it works - but now,... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 156 views

YouTube: I came across these four physics puzzles over the years in discussions with Neil deGrasse Tyson (riddle 4: which part(s) of a moving train are going backwards with respect to the ground?), Simon... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 3 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,229 views • 4:24