Right now, a billion people are chronically hungry. That means they wake up hungry, they’re hungry all day and they go to sleep hungry. A billion people…
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Simply put, this is cool physics and other sweet science. Here are some of the questions tackled in this series of short videos. Have you ever wondered…
Gravity. The stars in day. Thoughts. The human genome. Time. Atoms. So much of what really matters in the world is impossible to see. Did you know…
Explore how we have hidden secret messages over time. Brit Cruise discusses the basic idea behind why we need cryptography, the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, and basics…
Miller was the star witness in the Dover “Panda Trial” in Pennsylvania where Judge John E Jones found “intelligent-design” to be a religious view, not science. He…
Why would it be hard to pedal a 10,000 pound bicycle? This simple explanation shows how Newton’s 3 laws of motion might help you ride your bike….
From something as small and complex as a chromosome to something as seemingly simple as the weather, sex determination systems vary significantly across the animal kingdom. Biologist…
Academic and author Oren Harman reveals the extraordinary discoveries of George Price – the eccentric genius who strove to understand evolution’s greatest riddle: altruism. Price developed a…
Life is extreme chemical complexity, and knowing that life-forming chemicals are widespread in the universe, it may be posited that the universe, if the conditions are right,…
Science fiction portrays our Milky Way Galaxy as filled with habitable planets populated by advanced civilizations engaged in interstellar trade and conflict. Back in our real universe,…
What if you were completely conscious but couldn’t move or speak? Neuroscientist Adrian Owen and his team have been using brain-imaging techniques to determine levels of consciousness…
