Category Archives: Science

The strangest physics result

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What is life? A Nobel Prize-winning scientist answers | Paul Nurse Full Interview

“If we’re related to every living thing on the planet, do we not have a special responsibility for every living thing on this planet? They are really all our relatives.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► / @bigthink Up … Continue reading

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Door slit projecting image in my apartment

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The search for LIFE: but NOT as we know it…

AD | Join me in reading Nautilus by heading to http://joinnautilus.com/drbecky where you can get 15% off a membership to Nautilus, perfect for any science enthusiast. | We only know of one planet in the universe that hosts life: Earth. … Continue reading

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Why Some Trees in SciShow’s Hometown Are Full of Poop

[…] How would you deal with sewage waste pollution? Here in Missoula, the answer was…. poplar trees. Here’s the weird reason that these poplar trees are some of nature’s best cleaners, and why our hometown heroes might not be so … Continue reading

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BBC World Service – Discovery, Unstoppable: Inge Lehmann

How seismologist Inge Lehmann rewrote geophysics by discovering Earth’s inner core From growing up in a progressive Denmark to studying mathematics at a gender-segregated Cambridge University, Inge Lehmann had to power through the shock of cultural change to pursue her … Continue reading

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Robert McNees | Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who decoded spectral lines to deduce the elemental composition of stars, was born #OTD in 1900. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬

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This is the triple point of water where it melts, boils, and freezes at the same time. It occurs at 0.01°C and 611.657 pascals, where all three phases of water coexist in perfect equilibrium

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History of the Discovery of Infrared and Ultraviolet Light

This is the story of Astronomers William and Caroline Hershal and how they found invisible light in sunlight.

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Why is the ocean salty?

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