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How Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work
MinutePhysics on permanent magnets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFAOXd… Subscribe to Veritasium: http://bit.ly/SuBVe Support Veritasium- get a t-shirt: http://dft.ba/-vetshirt Subscribe to MinutePhysics: http://bit.ly/1eVPynh Magnetism seems like a pretty magical phenomenon. Rocks that attract or repel each other at a distance – that’s really cool … Continue reading
Lobsters Are Blue
Lobsters are blue, a short film about these beautiful creatures that most people think are bright red, but are in fact, blue. The blue, green and greyish hues of lobster help them camouflage against the seabed, rocky areas and holes … Continue reading
Paintings by Fire Ants | Kottke
Ants use pheromone trails to signal to other ants to follow them to food or other desirable destinations. Inspired by this, entomology graduate student Horace Zeng dropped some of the fire ants he uses in his research into some paint … Continue reading
WHERE I WORK : Flying through an undersea ‘stained-glass window’ | Nature
Kendall Powell Cayne Layton is a marine ecologist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart, Australia. Credit: Craig Johnson … Continue reading
‘Lost’ Brazilian frogs rediscovered with environmental DNA — The Freshwater Blog
Scientists have used cutting-edge DNA techniques to identify the presence of a Brazilian frog species not seen since 1968, and thought to be extinct. Organisms leave DNA traces in soil, water and air in their habitats, and this ‘environmental DNA’ … Continue reading
The moon is rusting!
Hi Spacecats, I’m Dr Maggie Lieu and welcome to my channel, where you can find all things space, astronomy and physics! In this week’s video, I talk about a new science result that suggests the Moon is rusting because of … Continue reading
The surprising pattern behind color names around the world
Why so many languages invented words for colors in the same order. Help us make more ambitious videos by joining the Vox Video Lab. It gets you exclusive perks, like livestream Q&As with all the Vox creators, a badge that … Continue reading
Reinhard Genzel: “Completely unexpected and, wow, I’m on cloud 17.”
In keeping with the times, Reinhard Genzel was in the middle of a virtual conference when he was surprised by the call announcing, “This is Stockholm!” In this interview with Adam Smith he briefly summarises his 40 year effort to … Continue reading
Andrea Ghez: “It amazes me every time I go to the telescope”
“It’s a passion for the universe!” That’s how Andrea Ghez succinctly sums-up her motivation for becoming an astrophysicist in this conversation recorded with Adam Smith shortly after she heard the news of her Nobel Prize in a 2am call from … Continue reading
Roger Penrose: “I had this strange feeling of elation”
In this phone interview with Adam Smith, recorded just after the announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, Roger Penrose recounts the story of how a particular crossroads held the key to his seminal 1965 paper on the theoretical … Continue reading
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