Accidentally filming triboluminescence by shooting two air cannons loaded with glass spheres directly at each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboluminescence

posted by newtboy 2 months 2 weeks ago • 122 views • 22:27

NASA’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 2 months 2 weeks ago • 341 views • 2:19

YouTube description: David Owen reports on noise pollution, an intangible phenomenon with serious costs to human health and wildlife. (H/T @eric3579)

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 379 views • 8:45

YouTube description: A bisected grape in the microwave makes plasma. But how does it work? A grape is the right size and refractive index to trap microwaves inside it. When you place two (or two halves)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months ago • 732 views • 8:16

YouTube description: Hi there! I'm (finally!) back with the first video of 2019 explaining what is Reggaeton, one of the most popular music genre today, now a real global phenomenon that regularly... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 378 views • 2:07

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 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 522 views • 3:30

YouTube description: Thunderstorm time lapse and spectacular phenomenon with facts and information of where to witness these fascinating sights. Upward lightning, mammatus, sprites, gustnadoes and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 498 views • 6:19

As America becomes more and more multicultural, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA — and... continue reading

posted by Ashenkase 5 years 6 months ago • 582 views • 13:02

Robert Freeman is a man with strong opinions, a hair trigger on his belt, and a penchant for foods so fatty they put you to sleep. The Itis, Robert's catastrophic soul food franchise, so effectively renders... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 94 views • 6:17

Published on Dec 27, 2016 This is the story of how a tiny, magical creature was transformed into a cultural phenomenon by inventor, marketing genius and complicated eccentric Harold von Braunhut. Full... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 6 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,442 views • 16:47

YouTube description: Bright pillars of light... clouds of glowing dust... shimmering discs floating around the sun... signs of extraterrestrial activity, or is there a more rational and scientific explanation... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 1 week ago • 917 views

There's a variety of visual problems and disturbances we all experience on a daily basis. Floaters! Blue entoptic phenomenon! Visual snow! Phosphenes! With simulations, Inés will run through all of them.

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 1,089 views • 3:44

YouTube description: Did you play with glow in the dark toys as a kid? They’re super cool, but kind of mysterious. How do they glow after all? Hank explains the phenomenon in this quick question. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months ago • 129 views • 2:37

Nope, nope ... nope YouTube: You wanna be the very best? Like no one ever was? Travel across your neighborhood with us and learn about some of the tech behind the phenomenon that is Pokémon GO.

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 9 months ago • 96 views • 4:59

YouTube Description: And how it got its name. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO El Niño is a weather phenomenon that occurs irregularly in the eastern tropical Pacific every... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,145 views • 2:59

I thought I saw Jerry Garcia in my granola this morning. YouTube: Why do people supposedly see a woman in pictures sent from Mars by the Curiosity Rover? For the same reason that people see Pepe the... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 8 months 1 week ago • 208 views • 4:45

YT: Sometimes, against a uniform, bright background such as a clear sky or a blank computer screen, you might see things floating across your field of vision. What are these moving objects, and how are... continue reading

posted by Zawash 9 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 680 views • 4:05

Flatulence is a daily phenomenon. In fact, most human beings pass gas 10-20 times a day (yes, that includes you). Where does your bodily gas come from? Purna Kashyap takes us on a journey into the intestines,... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 9 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 31 views • 4:57

Is what you are seeing real?

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 7 months 3 weeks ago • 934 views • 2:04

"These beads seem to levitate, defy gravity and jump out of the beaker. But how and why do they act like this? We met up with Steve Mould, the science guy from Britain's Brightest, to explore the science... continue reading

posted by ant 1 decade 10 months ago • 199 views • 5:15