Your body has all sorts of complicated processes going on inside it and a lot and a lot of these processes are carried on by incredibly powerful and often incredibly large molecules. Some of these molecules that you’re using right now are so big that they challenge the definition of what a molecule is. Technically […]
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Migraines: Not Just Another Headache
If you’ve never had a migraine, you might think it’s just a really bad headache but if you’ve had ever had one, or you know someone who gets them, you know that they are much worse than that and much more complicated. A true migraine is a multi-symptom disorder of the nervous system that affects […]
Portuguese Man o’ War: An Organism Made of Organisms?
This is a Portuguese Man o’ War. It looks like a jellyfish, right? Heck, it even acts like a jellyfish. But it is not a jellyfish. In fact… it isn’t even a single thing. The Portuguese Man o’ War belongs to an order of extraordinarily weird animals called siphonophores. There are about 175 species of […]
The Science of Wildfires
Did you know that trees contain the same kind of compound as gasoline? It’s true! When wood is heated to about 150 degrees Celsius, its cells start to break down and release volatile gases. You know these gases as smoke. But they’re actually full of hydrocarbons — the same kind of molecule that you find […]
Cryptography: The Science of Making and Breaking Codes
This probably looks like gibberish to you, and it should because it’s a cryptogram, a message in code. But, if I told you that all I did was shift every letter in the sentence to the next one in the alphabet, then you’d know that it translates to this. To encrypt a message, you need […]
How Do Satellites Get & Stay in Orbit?
The Science of Chocolate
Exploring Our Solar System: Planets and Space for Kids – FreeSchool
The Science of Anti-Vaccination
The Real Science of Forensics
let's talk about crime shows in a non-stop media stream filled with reality shows cooking competitions and whatever's happening in Westeros police procedurals are probably as close as most of us are going to get to seeing science portrayed in primetime and the techniques that crime fighters use to catch bad guys vary from show […]