Guns in Space

One day in the fall, you called upon your friend, Sherlock Holmes, and found him in conversation with Jabez Wilson. Wilson had been working for the mysterious League of Red-Headed Men. Today, he arrived at work to find the group had...

Niels Bohr, a Danish Physicist said “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded .” Is what we see perceived to be real or is it an illusion?

In the world of our mind’s eye, light travels in a straight line....

The finest burritos in the world are made in San Francisco’s Mission District. But how can you get a hot & fresh one in New York City in time for lunch? Physics, that’s how. For this very serious and scientific video, we dug a classic...

One Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in one minute!

In a Texas clearing, an ancient tale that ties four species together is unfurling. The first involved is a soon-to-be queen leafcutter ant. The second is fungus, a piece of which she scoops into her mouth pocket. The third are...

Ancient Stonehenge Faces Modern Problems With Plans For A Nearby Tunnel To Ease Traffic

Guns in Space

Flanked by two powerful nations, the English Channel has long been one of the world’s most important maritime passages. Yet for most of its history, crossing was a dangerous prospect. Engineers proposed numerous plans for spanning the...

Hidden beneath Greenland’s ice and powered by a nuclear reactor, Camp Century made for an interesting US military base. But life under the ice came with unique struggles; and although it wasn’t mainly constructed for science, the base...

Jessi has a cool pair of gardening gloves, which makes her wonder, what special tools do animals have for living underground?



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At the 2008 EG Conference, artist Miru Kim talks about her work. Kim explores industrial ruins underneath New York and then photographs herself in them, nude -- to bring these massive, dangerous, hidden spaces into sharp focus.

Woodpeckers search for food by using their face to dig through tree bark! But why doesn't this give them a headache?

Ever wish you had your own secret network of hidden passages? Well some animals do and they might be closer than you think!

If wormholes aren't just convenient plot devices for science fiction writers, they're still much weirder than anything we could make up.

This week, we discovered that some gophers are not the pests they’re made out to be, perhaps even sharing some of the farming behaviors of humans. And a martian rock a million years in the making finally has its origin story.

Learn about some cool, chilly, spaces with Jessi and Squeaks!

Your friend's birthday is tomorrow, and he's turning... well... you've forgotten. A ginormous cake has been prepared and your job is to sculpt his age as the chocolate centerpiece. The birthday boy is a giant, and you're afraid that if...

Quantum tunneling happens when a particle seemingly teleports across a barrier. But despite how instantaneous this event sounds, recent research suggests that it doesn’t happen nearly as fast as you might think.

Biology and technology grew closer together when scientists manufactured neurons that acted like those in a brain! And birds evolved to protect themselves in two ways: fight and flight.

Each day, the animal kingdom produces roughly enough poop to match the volume of water pouring over Victoria Falls. So why isn't the planet covered in the stuff? You can thank the humble dung beetle for eating up the excess. Eleanor...

For two decades, scientists were baffled by perfectly aligned holes discovered miles deep on the ocean floor. This is the story of the deep-sea detective work that finally identified the clever crustacean architect behind the Pacific...

In this video, explore remote access VPNs, allowing individual users to securely connect to a private network.

The largest wind farm in the world is being constructed in China's Gansu Province, and is one of six mega-farms going up across the country.