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All About the Biggest (Theoretical) Molecule
Here’s a look at a recent video from the Periodic Videos team, which sent viewers on a thought…
The Mathematical Approach to Wordle
Grant Sanderson’s 3blue1brown returns with quite a timely piece about the mathematically-guided best way to open up your…
How Are You Reading This Title, Anyway?
Dr. Joe Hanson is back with Be Smart, which asks us a question that, admittedly, originally sounds like…
Did Some Dinosaurs Shrink Because of Insects?
The Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution saw the emergence of social insects like ants and termites as a response to…
How Teeth Changed the Evolution Game (And Why Some Animals Lost Them Anyway)
There’s a conundrum in the paleontological community that’s been going on for quite some time. Did teeth evolve…
The Secret That Enables Sewage Facilities
Civil engineer Grady Hillhouse, with his YouTube channel Practical Engineering, gives us a question that we perhaps choose…
Feeling a Bit Itchy? Here’s a Couple of Reasons Why
Ever get that need to just scratch a patch of your body, and felt that you’re itching to…
Dr. Sutter Asks: Do We Live In a Simulation?
In one of his newest videos, astrophysicist Dr. Paul Sutter asks a question that is sometimes better left…
Nature Just Can’t Get Enough of Its “Crab” Design, Apparently
PBS Eons gave us a featurette into the evolutionary history of crabs—and why nature can’t seem to get…
How Humans Have Genetically Modified Nature – with Beth Shapiro
The Royal Institution invited evolutionary molecular biologist and UC Santa Cruz professor Beth Shapiro to discuss just how…