Writing in the Geophysical Research Letters, NASA says a review of Voyager 2’s old data from 1986 showed that Uranus vented a giant blob of gas into space. This pocket of ionized gas, a plasma structure... continue reading
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In most developed countries, workers have the right to a certain number of paid sick days. It’s a policy that isn’t rooted in just generosity — during pandemics like the novel coronavirus, it can... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 2 months ago • 430 views • 6:33Michael Osterholm is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease epidemiology. He is Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, the director of the Center for... continue reading
posted by eric3579 4 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,286 views • 6:59YouTube description: Kea, a type of parrot from New Zealand, have been surprising scientists with their smart predictions. Researchers set them a series of intelligence tests based around probabilities... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 599 views • 4:21In the fast-flowing streams of eastern Tennessee, Emilly Nolan is working hard to reestablish a population for a strange looking animal with an even stranger array of nicknames. The Eastern hellbender—aka... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 152 views • 6:51From Youtube, "Dianna from Physics Girl visited CERN in Geneva Switzerland to find out what the detectors at the LHC are looking for, and dive into the fundamental question: what are particles? Creator/Host:... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 294 views • 14:44A recent study had a lot of negative things to say about diet sodas, but how seriously should we take that study? Observational research can be powerful and useful, but it can also lead to shaky outcomes.... continue reading
posted by eric3579 4 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 512 views • 6:17From Youtube, "The Todd Rogers dragster saga is one of the juiciest stories in all of video game history. I was addicted to researching the dispute when it arose on Twin Galaxies and the entire story has... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 28 views • 26:04"Ant venom delivery captured, for the first time, in slow-motion (1,000fps) & up-close video. The ants (and stingers) featured in this video are the Florida harvester ant Pogonomyrmex badius and the trap-jaw... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 700 views • 3:31YouTube 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 10 months ago • 273 views • 12:58YouTube 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 3 weeks ago • 1,838 views • 3:58YouTube description: There was so much I wasn't able to tell you. Like, for example, most of the jellyfish on display at the aquarium are born and bred at the aquarium. They do active research on jellyfish... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 12 months ago • 1,388 views • 8:03YT: The Forbes Pigment Collection, at the Harvard Art Museums, is a collection of pigments, binders, and other art materials for researchers to use as standards: so they can tell originals from restorations... continue reading
posted by Fantomas 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 446 views • 5:13YouTube description: Compliant mechanisms have lots of advantages over traditional devices. SimpliSafe is awesome security. It's really effective, easy to use, and the price is great. Check out SimpliSafe... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,004 views • 12:52From Youtube, "Can you trust our videos? How do we research them nowadays? And what about our older videos? "
posted by w1ndex 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 653 views • 6:10YouTube 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) 5 years 3 months ago • 241 views • 6:38YouTube description: You can tell a lot about an animal from the way it moves, which is why scientists have been recreating the movements of an extinct crocodile-like creature called Orobates pabsti.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 1 week ago • 441 views • 4:19YouTube description: Who would have thought baby electric eels would be so cute? I record their electric pulses and think about future research. Catania, K.C., 2015. Electric eels concentrate their... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months ago • 665 views • 3:27YouTube description: A new technique is allowing researchers to study the inner workings of a cuttlefish brain by tracking colour changing cells in their skin. These cell are directly controlled by... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 462 views • 6:19Meet two of the first catastrophic spinal cord injury patients in the world able to take steps on their own following epidural stimulation and rehab. Researchers at the University of Louisville are making... continue reading
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