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...
– 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...