Modern Sciences Team
692 posts
Rare Aging Syndrome May Be Caused By “Quadruple Helix” DNA
The double helix structure of DNA is embedded into the heart of popular science. Since its discovery in…
January 12, 2022
Periodic Videos Presents: Helium
Periodic Videos is back, and Sir Martyn Poliakoff is here to teach us about the element that makes…
January 8, 2022
Periodic Videos Presents: Hydrogen
Sir Martyn Poliakoff, together with the Periodic Videos team, give a crash course into the most abundant element…
January 7, 2022
Greenhouse Gas Emissions May Be Coming From the Siberian Permafrost
Part of our efforts towards curbing the deleterious effects of climate change is the reduction of the very…
January 6, 2022
Alphabet’s “DeepMind” AI Cracks a Decades-Old Graphs Problem and Mathematical Knots
If there’s anything that we likely know for sure about mathematics, it’s that it reaches much further from…
January 4, 2022
Mimicry: When Animals Copy to Survive
YouTube channel Deep Dive tours us around the very odd world of mimicry, showing us some of the…
January 1, 2022
Newly-Developed Sensors Go Under Your Car Seat—And They Can Tell If You’re Drunk
A document from the International Transport Forum shows that, on average, we lose 1.25 million people each year…
December 28, 2021
An Animated COVID-19 Primer from Kurzgesagt
(This video was uploaded on March 19, 2020.) Famous educational YouTube channel Kurzgesagt has put together an explainer…
December 25, 2021
Newly-Designed “Bionic” Eye Cleared For Implantation, Aims For Human Trials Next
The human eyes are a true evolutionary marvel, and are quite literally a sight to behold. Housing light-sensitive…
December 19, 2021
The Dangers That Lie Beneath the Mississippi
YouTube channel Deep Dive is back, this time with a video that details the hidden dangers that lie…
December 18, 2021