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A Beautiful Playlist: the Sounds of the Planets of Our Solar System
Our universe is not silent. It is actually playing a piece of secret music. Although sound waves cannot move in space as they do on Earth, NASA's scientists found a…
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Thirty years ago, Leslie Lamport wrote the professional document preparation system and document markup language, LaTeX. Since then, LaTeX has been widely used to publish scientific documents in many disciplines,…
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Braving the Chill: -37F Winter in Yellowstone National Park
Winter in Yellowstone transforms into a land of extremes: the collision of boiling water from the park’s famed geysers with the Frost King’s touch creates an ethereal tableau of steam…
The Physics of Kung Fu
In an intersection of martial arts and digital artistry, Tobias Gremmler, a German visual artist, captures the spirit of Kung Fu through his captivating digital renderings.
The Fascinating Science of Snowflakes in 4 Minutes Explained by Brian Cox
From the Royal Society, physicist Brian Cox explains how snowflakes form, why each snowflake is unique, and debunks an age-old myth about the color of snowflakes in a short 4-minute…
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Dictionary of Numbers
Dictionary of Numbers is an award-winning Chrome plugin that attempts to make sense of the numbers you meet on the web by providing a human-friendly description of that number. In…
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Purple Rocket Podcast
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In an age where scientific discoveries are happening at an astonishing rate, it doesn’t seem easy to keep up with the ever-evolving intersection of science and society. Enter NPR’s Short…
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Reply All is a podcast about the internet' that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it.
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Expanding Gases Science Experiment
Find out what happens when gases are heated up or cooled down. The gas expands when it is heated. The rule is that if the gas's pressure remains constant, the…
Ivory Soap Science Experiment
Create a big soapy marshmallow out of Ivory soap®. Ivory soap® floats because it has air pumped into it during manufacturing. When the air inside the soap heats up, the…
The Visual Proof of the Area of a Circle
In geometry, the area enclosed by a circle of radius r is π r2. Here is a beautiful visual demonstration of where nr2 derives.
