This is kinda weird.. Watch what whe ants do when an iphone rings. Here is also some content posted by the video uploader. I’m not sure of the significance or how it ties in but am including it here: This Is What Your iPhone Has Done To Your Braincells – the electromagnetic wave of an…
How Hard Is It To Pull Two Phone Books Apart? [Video]
you might be surprised. Why is it so darn hard to pull two phone books apart? They think they figured it out: People, trucks and even military tanks have tried and failed the task of pulling apart two phone books lying face up with their pages interleaved, like a shuffled deck of cards. While physicists…
New Telescope Idea To Focus Mainly On Exoplanets
Is this a smart, stragegic way to look for extraterrestrials? Apparently there is a team with a cost effective and potentially efficient idea: Even with about 2,000 confirmed planets found outside the solar system, we know so little about them. What are they made of? Are their atmospheres habitable? What weather exists? It will take…
5 Sunken Mysteries That We Still Do Not Understand
Archaeologists and scientists spend most of their time analyzing outer space, experiments in a lab and formations and structures on the surface of planet earth. There of course is another entire world in the oceans, and many of the formations and structures are still unexplained: During the past century with the advent of sonar and…
The Science Behind A Jetpack Water Rocket [Video]
Veritasium makes a cool video here where he tests a water jetpack. At the same time he uses physics to explain what is happening. Here is how he describes his experience: Despite the fat lip I had a great time. I think knowing a bit about physics actually helps fly the jetpack. It works…
Do You Know The Mystery Of The Nazca Lines?
There are some very mysterious markings in Peru that you may have not heard about before. Etched into the driest desert in the world, the mysterious lines and figures of Nazca in Southern Peru are invisible from the ground. Thought to have been made by the Nazca people, who flourished between 200 BC and 600…
What Happens When They Put 2000 Volts Through A Plasma TV? [Video]
This home experimenter decides to take 2000 volts and put it through his plasma tv. Do not try this at home without the supervision of a professional. It looks pretty neat in the video and this enthusiastic commenter had this reaction after watching: dude this is super cool! is there any way to convince you…
NASA And This Company Join To Make A “Tractor Beam”
Uhh..Is this a good idea? We’ve all seen science fiction movies about tractor beams pulling in space ships and the like. Now, they may actually begin to attempt on a small scale to make an actual tractor beam: When Arx Pax unveiled its “hoverboard” last year, we had a hunch that this was but the…
10 Optical Illusions That Will Have You Amazed [Video]
This list of 10 cool optical illusions are shown in the video with components and steps. A few of the ones listed and named by the home experimenter are: Amazing 3D Illusion Animated Optical Illusion Crazy Tables Optical Illusion Awesome 20 Dollar Bill Illusion This is likely the work of “CrazyRussianHacker” which is his internet posting…
Puffer Fish Create Amazing Geometric Patterns [Video]
Puffer fish are cool and a somewhat dangerous delicacy if they are in defense mode. Who knew they could to this? Right around this time last year, news broke about the discovery of an amazing little puffer fish capable of creating elaborately designed ‘crop circles’ at the bottom of the ocean as part of an…
Have You Heard The Mystery Of The Atacama Desert?
Apparently one of the driest regions on earth has a mysterious, unsolved question: In the Atacama Desert, no flowers bloom, no insects buzz, and no rain ever falls. This is the driest place on Earth. There was once water here, evidence is everywhere you look, but why has it dried up? This is the Riddle of…
It’s 13.2 Billion Light Years Away [Video]
They broke the record again and detected a quasar 13.2 billion . This beat the previous record of one that was estimated to be 12.9 billion light years away: A team of astrophysicists using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has successfully measured the farthest galaxy ever recorded and more interestingly, captured its hydrogen…
Starshades Could Help Us In The Search For Aliens
Have you heard of these? The search for galaxies, quasars and other incredibly bright formations has taken leaps forward with The Hubble Telescope. However, detecting the exoplanets that may orbit stars within galaxies are difficult to detect due to the brightness of the stars they would likely be orbiting around. So, this team has an…
Will They Be Able To Make It An Entire Year?
Some people think this is a solid experiment and others are skeptical on its importance. But preperation is key for any serious endeavor, space, personal, learning a new skill etc. On Friday (Aug. 28), six scientists left the comforts of civilization, set to be gone for an entire year. Their mission will simulate what it…
They Found The Closest Exoplanet: Alpha Centauri Bb
Alpha Centauri is the closest known star system to us at just over 4 light years away. Perhaps we should be spending more effort examining that area for signs of life. And just a few years ago in 2012 they made a cool discovery: The closest star system to our own is now confirmed to…
They Found An Enormous Ice Sheet On Mars
The Mars mysteries keep on coming. At this point they are finding so many unexplainable terrain anomolies, it makes one really wonder about the history of this planet. Here is more on the discovery of something bizarre: Ali Bramson knew she was onto something when she spotted a “crazy looking crater” on the face of Mars.…
Guy Climbs The World’s Tallest Tree [Video]
Jim Pseckler, nature enthusiast and adventurer climbs the world’s tallest tree. Here is a bit more information on this incredible natural phenomenon from wikipedia: Hyperion is the name of a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in Northern California that was measured at 115.61 m (379.3 ft), which ranks it as the world’s tallest known living tree. Overview Hyperion…
NASA Test Fires A Rocket…Made With 3D Printed Parts
Who would have ever thought that technology and manufacturing would progress to this level? Apparently NASA 3D printed some parts and actually used them in a test rocket: Watch a video that puts you in the test stand. This video gives you a blazing view of the one of the first tests of a 3-D…
What Is At The Bottom Of The Baltic Sea?
Apparently there is a very unusual object at the bottom of The Baltic Sea. It was discovered in 2011 and the theories of the origins of this thing are all over the place. Is the Baltic Sea Anomaly a 14,000 year old alien spacecraft that crash landed? In what seems to come straight out of…
DIY Aqua Lens Uses Physics To Make A Crazy Death Ray
One of the most underutilized energy sources (although they are making progress) is solar power. This creative DIYer has made a very clever “aqua lens” which uses water and the sun. Here is how he describes this device: This solar water lens that is almost 30 inches in diameter is grid free energy and can burn…
