How do they do artificial diamonds?
AdultsBusinessScienceTechnology...Gemesis diamonds are mostly yellow due to the Nitrogen in the atmosphere getting inside the crystal during the growing process. Apollo diamonds can be created in all colors including colorless depending on how much impurity is introduced in the growing chamber. e.g. add boron to make blue diamonds.
World's Roundest Object
AdultsPhysicsScienceProblem-SolvingThe world's roundest object helps solve the longest running problem in measurement -- how to define the kilogram.
Fish With Transparent Head Filmed
AdultsAnimalsNatureBiology...For the first time, a large Pacific barreleye fish - complete with transparent head - has been caught on film by scientists using remotely operated vehicles at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. The deep-sea fish's tubular eyes pivot under a clear dome.
Amazing Facts to Blow Your Mind
AdultsInternet CultureScienceFun...Time for some interesting facts to make your head explode! Now you can sound even smarter around your friends with these simple but super fun facts about life!
Amazing Resonance Experiment!
AdultsCreativityPhysicsExperiments...So this experiment is the Chladni plate experiment. I used a tone generator, a wave driver (speaker) and a metal plate attached to the speaker. First add sand to the plate then begin playing a tone. Certain frequencies vibrate the metal plate in such a way that it creates areas where there is no vibration. The sand "falls" into those areas, creating beautiful geometric patterns. As the frequency increases in pitch the patterns become more complex.
FLIP marine research vessel
AdultsEnvironmentNatureTechnology...The FLIP (FLoating Instrument Platform) is a research vessel that can rotate to a vertical position. It is currently owned by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
What is fat? - George Zaidan
AdultsBiologyHealthScience...As the narrative goes, fat is bad. Well, it's actually more nuanced than that. The type of fat you eat is more impactful on your health than the quantity. George Zaidan examines triglycerides, the varied molecules that make up fat, and how to identify which types of fat you are consuming.
Mythbusters - Helium and Sulfur Hexafluoride
AdultsScienceTVEntertainment...Adam from the show Mythbusters has fun with Helium and Sulfur Hexafluoride.
A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie
AdultsFilmTechnologyScience...Scientists from IBM today unveiled the world's smallest movie, made with atoms. Named "A Boy and His Atom," the movie used thousands of precisely placed atoms to create this ~250 frames stop-motion, first of its kind classic.
Birds-of-Paradise Project
AdultsAnimalsNatureScience...This fall, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Geographic are bringing the Birds-of-Paradise Project to the public. Get an advance look now...and witness diverse strategies of evolution at work and experience one of nature's extraordinary wonders - up close.
How Liquipel Will Make Your Phone Waterproof
AdultsPhysicsTechnologyGadgets...We check in with the team at Liquipel, a company that impressed us last year with its water-resistent nano-coating for smartphones. Dunking an iPhone into a tub of water and watching it still work perfectly is still amazing and something our brains struggle to comprehend.
Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps - Smarter Every Day
AdultsPhysicsScienceTechnologyBeing able to calculate the failure front velocity of a Prince Rupert's drop is a pretty big deal. For years this was a scientific mystery. High speed camera technology is only recently fast enough to provide data like this. Thanks to Vision Research for letting me use the V1610 to try to unravel this mystery for the public in general.
Escaping Earth with Morgan Freeman
AdultsSpaceTVEntertainment...An intergalactic space voyage narrated by the smoothest voice on planet Earth.