Christien Meindertsma, author of "Pig 05049" looks at the astonishing afterlife of the ordinary pig, parts of which make their way into at least 185 non-pork products, from bullets to artificial hearts.

In the early 20th century, the US had expanded from coast to coast, but many cities in the southwest still lacked reliable water sources. The Colorado River's erratic flow and frequent floods made it unreliable for agriculture, and the...

¿Por qué algunas piedras son redondas y otras planas? Zach Weiner de SMBC comics fue el ilustrador invitado de este episodio http://www.smbc-comics.com ----------------------- Video Anterior: Las Mareas Este video es una traducción de...

El universo se expande, sí, lo sabemos ya, pero para conocer nuestro futuro necesitamos saber si acelera o no. ¡Muchas gracias a Marcelo Enrique Anguita Fuentes por apoyarnos en Patreon! Ayudas a que MinutoDeFísica sea posible. ¡Te...

El Bosón de Higgs. Nada más que añadir. ¡Dos vídeos más sobre el Higgs, prontito! ----------------------- Video Anterior: La Ilusión del Valle Montaña Este video es una traducción de "The Higgs Boson, Part I" -----------------------...

In 1996, a British Airways plane flew from New York to London in a record-breaking two hours and fifty-three minutes. Today, however, passengers flying the same route can expect to spend no less than six hours in the air — twice as long....

Hoy hablamos sobre la energía oscura y la aceleración del universo, el descubrimiento que fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de 2011, el 4 de Octubre. MinutoDeFísica proporciona una visión energética y entretenida para los viejos y...

¡Demostramos el área del círculo, πR², usando sólo cadena y una regla! ¿Y cómo sabemos cuál es el valor de π? Quantum Fracture te lo cuenta en uno de sus últimos vídeos----------------------- Video Anterior: Proof Without Words: The...

La Tierra es tan grande que a nosotros nos parece plana. Pero claro, todo es relativo. ¡Muchas gracias a Marcelo Enrique Anguita Fuentes por apoyarnos en Patreon! Ayudas a que MinutoDeFísica sea posible. ----------------------- Video...

Este vídeo es sobre cómo saber si las admisiones universitarias están sesgadas usando estadística: o sea, ¡es sobre la Paradoja de Simpson otra vez! MUCHÍIIIIIISIMAS GRACIAS a las chicas de Star Tres por prestar su voz en este vídeo....

Una respuesta al vídeo de CGP Grey sobre teletransporte, consciencia y Star Trek. El vídeo original de CGP Grey: ¡Muchas gracias a las siguientes personas que nos apoyan en Patreon! Ayudáis a que MinutoDeFísica sea posible. Marcelo...

¿Cuál es el evento de lanzamiento de peso más intenso de las Olimpiadas? ¿El de jabalina? ¿Disco? ¿Martillo? ¿Bala? ¡Muchas gracias a las siguientes personas que nos apoyan en Patreon! Ayudáis a que MinutoDeFísica sea posible. Sebastian...

In September 2015, scientists witnessed something never seen before: two black holes colliding. Both about 30 times as big as our Sun, they had been orbiting each other for millions of years. A fraction of a second before the crash, they...

In 2026, an unmanned NASA spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at 16 Psyche, a massive, metallic asteroid floating somewhere between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Why is NASA so interested in this heavy metal asteroid? Are we going to...

This video is chapter 2 in my series on special relativity, and it covers spacetime diagrams, rotational and translational symmetry of both time and space, how certain transformations preserve distances (measured in terms of a reference...

This video is about how the physics and chemistry of sugar (in particular, how it melts, and how it caramelizes) is more complicated than you might think. It involves fructose, sucrose, glucose, and a sticky mess. Credits: Gallium...

This video is about Tuned Mass Dampers, which can be used to reduce or avoid unwanted vibrations, swaying, swinging, bending, etc on engineered structures ranging from buildings, skyscrapers, electricity power transmission lines,...

The European Space Agency is hoping to establish an inhabited research base on the moon by the 2020s. But living in this "moon camp" won't be easy. How will humans deal with the cosmic radiation? What will the inhabitants eat? And what's...

This video is about the differences between the corpses or final degenerate dense star forms that dead stars take: black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs. The main distinguishing features between them are the mass cutoffs...

economic growth has been slowing for the past 50 years, but relief might come from an unexpected place -- a new form of manufacturing that is neither what you thought it was nor where you thought it was. Industrial systems thinker...

Check out the "What is a Day?" interactive video at https://labs.minutelabs.io/what-is-a-day/ It's super cool!! (and made by Jasper Palfree & the MinuteEarth/MinutePhysics team) This video is about the length of a solar day vs a stellar...

What if we could use biology to restore our balance with nature without giving up modern creature comforts? Advocating for a new kind of environmentalism, scientist and entrepreneur Emily Leproust rethinks modern sustainability at the...

Trace the storied history of the game of chess, from its origins in 7th century India to the computer software we use today. -- The attacking infantry advances, their elephants already having broken the defensive line. The king tries to...

So, how do engineers even figure out what problem needs to get fixed? And what's the difference between identifying a problem and just complaining about something. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about how we can all...