Mushroom Cloud Myth | Because Science Footnotes
Adults Data ScienceKyle debunks the Fallout Vault Boy myth, responds to your comments, and more!
What is Farthest Away?
Adults Data ScienceThe 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
Adults Data ScienceThe 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.
This Toy Can Open Any Garage
Adults Data ScienceOr almost any garage - it's particularly good with fixed code gates and garages. Samy proposes other weaknesses with rolling codes.
What is the universe expanding into?
Adults Data ScienceThe 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?
Adults Data ScienceHow Alan Turing's Reaction-Diffusion Model Simulates Patterns in Nature.
The Best Hearing on Earth | Because Science Live
Adults Data ScienceDo humans have the best hearing on earth?
How Small Is An Atom? Spoiler: Very Small.
Adults Data ScienceAtoms 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?
Adults Data ScienceThe 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
Adults Data ScienceWhen 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
Adults Data ScienceNature'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
Adults Data ScienceThree decades of change in five seconds.
How Will You Die?
Adults Data ScienceScience, statistics and lifestyle can help predict how you will die!
Why you shouldn't drive slowly in the left lane
Adults Data ScienceCan we all agree that the left lane is for passing, please?
Is Most Published Research Wrong?
Adults Data ScienceMounting evidence suggests a lot of published research is false.
Is Big Data Getting Too Big?
Adults Data ScienceBig Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Why are some people left-handed?
Adults Data ScienceToday, 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?
Adults Data ScienceWe'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?