What is Farthest Away?
AdultsData ScienceScienceSpaceThe edge of everything used to be the edge of the map. But now, thanks to what we know about astrophysics and the universe, the edge of everything might not even exist…
How to Build a 4K Editing Computer
AdultsData ScienceDesignTechnology...The fast rendering capability of this new machine actually let me eat dinner with my family on the first night I used it. This is incredibly important to me.
What is the universe expanding into?
AdultsData ScienceScienceSpaceThe universe began in a Big Bang nearly fourteen billion years ago, and has been expanding ever since. But how does the universe expand and what is it expanding into?
Can Math Explain How Animals Get Their Patterns?
AdultsData ScienceMathNature...How Alan Turing's Reaction-Diffusion Model Simulates Patterns in Nature.
The Best Hearing on Earth | Because Science Live
AdultsData ScienceScienceWorldDo humans have the best hearing on earth?
How Small Is An Atom? Spoiler: Very Small.
AdultsBiologyData ScienceScienceAtoms are very weird. Wrapping your head around exactly how weird, is close to impossible - how can you describe something that is SO removed from humans experience? But then again, they kind of make up everything, so let us try anyways.
What's The Hottest Hot and Coldest Cold?
AdultsData ScienceScienceSpaceThe hottest and coldest temperatures in our universe are rarely witnessed, but in these rare spots, our understanding of physics is challenged. Weird things happen at extreme hot and absolute cold.
How to spot a misleading graph - Lea Gaslowitz
AdultsVisual DesignWorkData Science...When they're used well, graphs can help us intuitively grasp complex data. But as visual software has enabled more usage of graphs throughout all media, it has also made them easier to use in a careless or dishonest way - and as it turns out, there are plenty of ways graphs can mislead and outright manipulate. Lea Gaslowitz shares some things to look out for.
We Could Back Up The Entire Internet On A Gram Of DNA
AdultsGeneticsInternet CultureTechnology...Nature's code for life is stored in DNA, but what if we could code anything we wanted into DNA? Scientists are figuring out how.
Google Timelapse Walks You Through Decades of Change in Seconds
AdultsHistoryTechnologyWorld...Three decades of change in five seconds.
How Will You Die?
AdultsData ScienceLifeScience...Science, statistics and lifestyle can help predict how you will die!
Why you shouldn't drive slowly in the left lane
AdultsData ScienceHealthTransportation...Can we all agree that the left lane is for passing, please?
Where Do Your Texts Go?
AdultsData ScienceTechnologyInternet CultureHow the hell does cellphone technology work?
Why Anecdotes Trump Data
AdultsData SciencePsychologyEducationA story is worth a thousand data points.
Is Big Data Getting Too Big?
AdultsData ScienceSoftware EngineeringTechnology...Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Why are some people left-handed?
AdultsData ScienceHistorySociety...Today, about one-tenth of the world's population are southpaws. Why are such a small proportion of people left-handed -- and why does the trait exist in the first place? Daniel M. Abrams investigates how the uneven ratio of lefties and righties gives insight into a balance between competitive and cooperative pressures on human evolution.
Why Are Some People Left-Handed?
AdultsData ScienceScienceSociety...We've got two perfectly good hands attached to two perfectly good arms, so why do most people prefer to use one over the other for common tasks?