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Explained: 5 Fun Physics Phenomena

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5 Physics Phenomena explained.

Giant Smoke Rings - Cool Science Experiment

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Steve and Ellen use a trash can and a fog machine to fire giant vortex smoke rings across the Ellen DeGeneres studio.

You Can Learn Anything

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Khan Academy is on a mission to unlock the world's potential. Most people think their intelligence is fixed. The science says it's not.

How the sun sees you

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We showed people what they looked like in ultraviolet, & wondered aloud if they wanted to put on some damn sunscreen already.

Here's Why You Should Never Thaw Your Frozen Steaks Before Cooking

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You may find out that you've been cooking steaks wrong your entire life.

5 Fun Physics Phenomena

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YouTuber Veritasium explains 5 weird but cool tricks about Physics in the latest video.

Inside the ant colony

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Ants have one of the most complex social organizations in the animal kingdom; they live in structured colonies that contain different types of members who perform specific roles. Sound familiar? Deborah M. Gordon explains the way these incredible creatures mate, communicate and source food, shedding light on how their actions can mimic and inform our own behavior.

Deep Sea Explorers

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While there's no shortage of weird and wacky ideas in science fiction about what creatures from other planets might look like, few are quite as remarkable as those that can actually be found right here on Earth.

7 Myths About The Brain You Thought Were True

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Blow your mind with these brain myths!

Can You Trust Your Ears?

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Should you believe your ears and the things they hear?

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Bill Gates Wealth

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Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how wealthy is Microsoft founder Bill Gates. An excerpt from University of Washington in 2011.

Interstellar

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Christopher Nolan is back with Interstellar, a film that has Matthew McConaughey as astronauts traveling to a recently discovered wormhole in our own solar system.

Another Reason Why Dogs Are Amazing: They Can Detect Cancer.

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Having a dog for a pet is a great way to find love, loyalty, friendship and fun; but canines are now using their keen senses for something remarkable. New studies have shown that through intense observation and an astute sense of smell (which is is about 100,000 times more powerful than that of a human), our canine friends are able to alert us when cancerous cells are present. In many instances dogs have pointed their noses on the precise locations of unidentified tumors. Read the Article

Why is ketchup so hard to pour?

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Ever go to pour ketchup on your fries...and nothing comes out? Or the opposite happens, and your plate is suddenly swimming in a sea of red? George Zaidan describes the physics behind this frustrating phenomenon, explaining how ketchup and other non-Newtonian fluids can suddenly transition from solid to liquid and back again.

Facebook Will Use Drones and Lasers to 'Beam' Internet to the World

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After announcing Internet.org last year, an initiative to improve Internet access across the globe, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the Connectivity Lab, a new team of scientists that has been working on the ambitious project. He said that the Connectivity Lab would develop "new platforms for connectivity on the ground, in the air and in orbit," according to a post on Internet.org on Thursday. How are they going to do it?

The chemistry of cookies

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You stick cookie dough into an oven, and magically, you get a plate of warm, gooey cookies. Except it's not magic; it's science. Stephanie Warren explains via basic chemistry principles how the dough spreads out, at what temperature we can kill salmonella, and why that intoxicating smell wafting from your oven indicates that the cookies are ready for eating.

What's In A Candle Flame?

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Is a flame really a plasma? Well it depends on your definition of plasma, but there are certainly ions in a flame, formed as molecules collide with each other at high speed, sometimes knocking electrons off of their atoms.