20,000 Magnets Vs A Car

20,000 Magnets Vs A Car

– Can 20,000 magnets catch a car mid air? How many lemons does it take to start a car? Hiding expensive items in the world’s largest haystack. Climbing a wall...

The amazing ways plants defend themselves - Valentin Hammoudi

The amazing ways plants defend themselves – Valentin Hammoudi

This is a tomato plant, and this is an aphid slowly killing the tomato plant by sucking the juice out of its leaves. The tomato is putting up a fight...

The science of smog - Kim Preshoff

The science of smog – Kim Preshoff

On July 26, 1943, Los Angeles was blanketed by a thick gas that stung people’s eyes and blocked out the Sun. Panicked residents believed their city had been attacked using...

The life cycle of a t-shirt - Angel Chang

The life cycle of a t-shirt – Angel Chang

Consider the classic white t-shirt. Annually, we sell and buy two billion t-shirts globally, making it one of the most common garments in the world. But how and where is...

Where do new words come from? - Marcel Danesi

Where do new words come from? – Marcel Danesi

Every year, about 1,000 new words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Where do they come from, and how do they make it into our everyday lives? With over...

How many ways are there to prove the Pythagorean theorem? - Betty Fei

How many ways are there to prove the Pythagorean theorem? – Betty Fei

What do Euclid, twelve-year-old Einstein, and American President James Garfield have in common? They all came up with elegant proofs for the famous Pythagorean theorem, the rule that says for...

What are gravitational waves? - Amber L. Stuver

What are gravitational waves? – Amber L. Stuver

At about six o’clock in the morning on September 14, 2015, scientists witnessed something no human had ever seen: two black holes colliding. Both about 30 times as massive as...

Should we get rid of standardized testing? - Arlo Kempf

Should we get rid of standardized testing? – Arlo Kempf

The first standardized tests that we know of were administered in China over 2,000 years ago during the Han dynasty. Chinese officials used them to determine aptitude for various government...

Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body? - Maryam Alimardani

Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body? – Maryam Alimardani

Look at your hand. How do you know it’s really yours? It seems obvious, unless you’ve experienced the rubber hand illusion. In this experiment, a dummy hand is placed in...

The surprising cause of stomach ulcers - Rusha Modi

The surprising cause of stomach ulcers – Rusha Modi

In 1984, an enterprising Australian doctor named Barry Marshall decided to take a risk. Too many of his patients were complaining of severe abdominal pain due to stomach ulcers, which...

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