Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second
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New largest prime number found! 2¹³⁶²⁷⁹⁸⁴¹-1. See all 41,024,320 digits.
36 votes -
Making an atomic trampoline
13 votes -
You don't descend from all your ancestors
21 votes -
Ahmes, the first known maths author
4 votes -
The Sydler π/4 polyhedron. The shape that should be impossible.
15 votes -
It's weirder than I thought. How cicadas make noise (in ultra slow motion).
21 votes -
The unbreakable Kryptos code
18 votes -
The (simple) theory that explains everything | Neil Turok
10 votes -
The Hydra game
6 votes -
Bizarre traveling flame discovery
11 votes -
The hazy evolution of cannabis
3 votes -
The mystery of spinors
4 votes -
When you make a mathematical knot using elastic material you get jumping loops, and challenging puzzles
8 votes -
I teach you weird animal mating facts for half an hour
13 votes -
Turning styrofoam into cinnamon candy
24 votes -
The oldest unsolved problem in math. Do odd perfect numbers exist?
11 votes -
Why is it so hard to tell the sex of a dinosaur?
9 votes -
Chemistry of Spice Melange (from Dune)
14 votes -
Tour of Vienna's Natural History Museum in Austria. It houses one of the oldest natural history collections in the world, dating back to the 1700's.
3 votes -
The bizarre patterns that emerge when you heat any fluid
11 votes -
Ultra-rapid MRI while singing and speaking
9 votes -
What the Prisoner's Dilemma reveals about life, the Universe, and everything
32 votes -
Y'all are nerds (according to math)
8 votes -
Hacking the Climate - 37c3
7 votes -
Making purple gold
26 votes -
Watch gravity pull two metal balls together
9 votes -
Egyptian fractions and the greedy algorithm
6 votes -
If you try to pass a bouncy ball under a table, if it hits the underside of the table it will just bounce back out the way it came
8 votes -
The Brain Scoop relaunch!
14 votes -
Something weird happens when you keep squeezing
19 votes -
The story of when washing hands was considered crazy
12 votes -
How laboratory glassware is blown in the UK
12 votes -
Can YOU win rock, paper, scissors against Grey? 99.9999999% will fail.
40 votes -
Attosecond lasers explained (2023 Nobel Prize in physics)
6 votes -
Inside the world of 3D sound
3 votes -
Why are adverts so loud?
17 votes -
Knot theory: How the most useless branch of math could save your life
15 votes -
The golf ball paradox
11 votes -
How a brain implant and AI gave a woman with paralysis her voice back
15 votes -
Turning milk into clothing
8 votes -
Storing dead people at -196°C
44 votes -
Steffen's polyhedron is a flexible concave polyhedron. Euler thought such a shape was impossible. I also show infinitesimally flexible polyhedrons and bistable polyhedrons.
13 votes -
Making infrared cooling paint from grocery store items
9 votes -
What is reality? Lisa Feldman Barrett, a neuroscientist explains.
5 votes -
Measuring the amount of lead (Pb) consumed when drinking from lead crystal glassware. Is it safe?
5 votes -
We made an epic fireworks display to explain the science of fireworks
8 votes -
Saving the Red Handfish from extinction
7 votes -
Grab a friend and try this crazy ear stretching illusion called "Buddha's Ear Illusion"
9 votes -
We made a meat-leaf to demonstration of the cutting edge of regenerative medicine, and bioengineering. And maybe as the first stop on the road to meat-robots.
10 votes